afternoon naps with windows open

Rare moment, girls don't have school, worked remotely for a while, then, took a nap.

So I'm sleeping, and in the dream I open up a power point presentation and this horrid repeating screeching starts.  Huh?  That sounds wrong.  In the dream I take the presentation up to the seminar room and see if it does the same thing there.  Yup.

Man that's annoying.  Trying to figure out what the hell is going on.  Find that it is an embedded sound in the power point.  Wow.  That's crazy.

Wake up to a bird making that same sound...  outside.  It was more annoying awake and outside my window than it was when I was dreaming about it.



Moved the croll frame out to the shed, full CX time baby.

Last night we had a nice small cyclocross practice session.  PVC team mates mostly.  Worked out and smoothed a few remounts.  People really don't realize how much someone watching them can help remove the obstacles.  Sadly if i keep helping people they'll all get faster than me.  Maybe I just leave them to double hop and flail and be afraid to remount and squish their nutsack.

The technical side of the full december 26th course is pretty awesome.  Harder than you'll see anywhere.  Still easy on a mt bike but there's a good couple off cambers, a disumount button hook, lots of turning, some pavement, barriers even.  Good flow but hard technically.  For me it is good.  For the kid Tom from Chicago? Cake money.  But then he's only 130 pounds soaking wet after four bowls of instant mac and cheese and running Rocket Rons.  Hard to hang on his wheel for someone my size.

the other half of the course is power, big power, flat, no hills but still a challenge.  Dreams of having a real sanctioned race there still float around in my dysfunctional and damaged brain.

I have knobbies on the TT wheels. Which means yes, i have knobbies on the CHaero clip on wheel covered wheel.  Knobbies on a black disc, so cool.  Maybe it is growing up envious of the look of the Tioga wheels. But it looks sharp.  THat and also more or less stick in the spokes rip the der off proof.

No racing on it and when i get the real commuter wheel built up I should be in business.  We'll see what happens though.

The practice last night was cool though.  If you count the commute home on the EX, not counting the 5 minutes to pump up the SP tires and let the dog out, I was riding CX bike from 4pm until 8pm.  I held back on the course, working to help people figure out the lines (no tape or stakes or cones) the only intensity was the starts.  And I was feeling it.  Even with all the remounts to show people i'm not even a touch sore (one point there was a very attractive woman on the bike path roller blading and so i started showing off... remounts got faster and faster and faster and faster and faster and i just kept pushing the speed up until I ran out of grass... she kept going but it felt good to have an excuse to push the limits - and show off).

And as coach K, king of Maine said, one remount was all he needed to prep for the season, it is kind of nice knowing that, one remount was all I needed to re-affirm I can still do this shit.

I'm still not racing this weekend.  Quad will be the first.  Not before then.

See you all there, i hope.

Heddwch,
-G