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"Jens might as well have tied him to the road and chopped his legs off" D. Harmon

Nice.

Day off the bike yesterday a few hours on my feet playing with bikes, and this morning I hitched up the trailer to the Croll and left it unloaded and headed in.  Popped on the path and saw Joe (Backpack guy) up 500 meters or so.  We had a bitching headwind this morning.  Maybe you were on the bike and noticed it.  It was a 20 mph sustained wind during the commute gusting to 25 and only lulling down to only 15.  Right in the teeth.

So I caught him there (+4 mph difference was needed to drag him back before Riverside Center) on the path, and then we hit the little rise, into the wind and it wasn't so bad until we got up by dunkin donuts the wind picked up and I had to work my ass off to stay on his wheel.  Couldn't quite stay in his draft though and the wind was brutal with the trailer.  Even the downhill into the wind wasn't much of a respite.  Got gapped big time coming up past the golf course and construction zone but I pulled it back in once we jumped back over to the bike path.

So glad I didn't add the box of books and the rock back into the trailer.

Felt good but man it hurt so good.  Sounds weird but I think I'm hitting on a decent combination of speed, strength, endurance without overdoing any of them.  The ride with Derdowski on wed night felt really good.  Despite the intervals on Sunday and Monday.  He did some big ones on Tuesday but when you ride with a friend and can peak as his Strava data and see that he was near his max HR sitting in my draft going into the wind and I was 10-20 beats below max.  There were some good solid sections of max effort and even heading home into the headwind with the trailer I felt wicked strong.

Was nice.  Legs almost felt more drained Wed night than they did after the 138 miles.  It just feels different pedaling, smoother, stronger a bit.  But of course no real tests.  I should be a bit better than last year at this point.  Time will tell and racing is the only metric that counts.

Today food is going to be a challenge.  Already ate most of my lunch, just a few pancakes, a tub of peanut butter and some sandwich bread left.

"glass cranking it" was my other favorite line from Harmon today.

Right now I could go for a huge stack of pancakes drowing in maple syrup, followed by a nap.

Better just have another cup of coffee.

Big Jonny said it best this morning: "How much coffee is enough coffee? It is C + 1."

great play on the how many bikes are enough bikes? N+1.

and yeah - gotta say, i like to ride my MOTHERFUCKING BIKE

When Firefly tweeted the link on the 7th it was at 611 views when I watched it.  And for a NSFW language vid it isn't doing too bad with 117k views so far.

Leaving it with a link to RTK's post...  and an observation that the warmer it is outside, the more likely the assholes are going to have a window down to yell stuff at you as they ride past.

And I will concur: "Bikes continue to be the raddest machines ever."

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