Not so much lately. Trying not to be less of the noise. I've let my skin get a bit too thin lately, maybe because I'm spread out. That or it is just thinner in some places than others. So I've dropped off of some of those places for now.
Wrestling with the whole mental issue of the push back. Confidence maybe you might call it. My motivation for sharing is nearly always altruistic. Sometimes it comes off as judgmental but that's more in the reader's interpretation. Talking about food, fuel, chain lube, coffee, whatever it might be, my experience is often just a sample size of 1. But that sample size of 1 is built on years of observing. I notice stuff that others miss, or dismiss. I remember stuff, small stuff, like the matrix, the borg, highlander... taking it all in, incorporating it. But also experimenting and trying stuff. Not being afraid to test. Not being content to not ask why. Why?
Why.
A pretty incredible person suggested the best thing i could do for my girls is to instill in them an inquisitive nature, encourage them to ask why, always question... Unconsciously I have been doing that, less passively now but always, work on the explaination. I can usually answer their questions, and like I do with my professional job, if there is something I don't know, I say it off the bat, "I don't know. But maybe we can figure it out."
Alex posted a review of a book, and I read that and another review of the same book he linked to and what stood out to me was the n=1.
Significant.
In the end we are all working with an n=1.
There is such diversity that you can never really have more than that. Take bike racing. In the amateur ranks, can you find more than n=1 sample size for a given program (fuel, training, recovery, equipment)?
Then again if you don't read, ask questions, figure out what works for someone else, it becomes more challenging to improve. A
You can mindlessly go about it all, and have someone spoon feed you everything, even if you ask why every time, it is still a passive process. Extremely effective usually. A good trainer can get someone going pretty well. Trying to do it yourself though can be more about the process than anything else.
Ties into what the guys at Competitive cycling were talking about with the Strava review. Killing the secrets. suddenly you have no more secrets, everyone knows how far, how fast, where, how many repeats... And that is okay, because, do what ever you want, it only matters when it comes time to pin a number on and see if it did you any good.
Pin the number on and see what happens. Or just do the TT in your mind with your social app, besides, what's the difference? Save ya the entry fee anyway.
Fox emailed me the NYTimes article on the Cycle of Fear this morning. If i'd hit the twitter when he shared it with me i'd have 'broken the story' as it is, a quick check an hour ago or so (when ever it was I looked at the feed on the web page for a minute) everyone was posting the link. Various comments. But there is truth to that. Clearing the mind. Focusing on the ride.
Clearing the mind.
Need to get some of that in. A nice long day. Actually thinking more about changing up the long ride, Boston is great but I'm kind of over the route, and it really does take forever to get into downtown... although it would be worth it for another coffee at Barrington Roasters. Woods Hole sounds pretty damn enticing honestly, head out there - watch the Ferry boats, get some coffee, maybe some fried fish or something, chowder, food, something, turn around and head back. Wouldn't be too shabby of a day.
Weird.
This whole thing went in a direction I hadn't planned. Oh well.
Be Like water...
Flow around and through and wind up where you do.
There was a point - somewhere along the way I wanted to make.
I did actually plan on going through the chain cleaning procedure that worked so well... maybe for another post.
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