pondering

Always a dangerous thing when i start thinking about options.

Best not to have them, just plow through.  (metaphor for singlespeed maybe).

this weekend I usually (last pile of years) don't race.  I have yet to make the trip up to Maine. While I'd love to, it just hasn't worked.  With NoHo coming up as a potential away weekend, plopping another one right now has been tough.  Driving to Maine and back each day isn't an option, nor even just for one day.

This year we've got some attractive choices.  New Hampshire and Hanover on saturday (nearly 3 hr drive each way) or Conn and Southington on Sunday.  Both have a SS race...  but even Sunday's race is nearly 2 hrs from me each way.

Looking ahead to the next weekend, nice close home race in a way in Canton.  But that's Saturday, can't make it.  Sunday? Also, no racing.  So looking at a forced break with no options to ride (other than trainer or a few laps on the BLVD) over that weekend, I'm considering Sloper.  But last night I was posed maybe I might just like to go for a long ride this weekend instead of racing?  Save the drive time.  Tough call.

Last night I got chewed out for saying it would be a 'disaster' to miss two weekends of racing in a row going into NoHo.  Such negative talk and it isn't true, don't even think that way.  good point.

4 hrs in the car, even I was to double up and race the Single Speed and the 1/2/3 race or the 35+ race or some combination of two, still is a pretty heavy commitment for a low key small race.  Maybe a long ride out to Plymouth wouldn't be a terrible idea for Sat.  Catch a soccer game, then get on the bike and ride the rest of the day.  Leave Sunday open for shopping and getting ready for the week and hanging out.  Probably would be one of the smarter things I could chose to do.

But the whole not racing thing is a challenge.  Maybe it is for the better.  Show up to NoHo hungry, fresh? But that long, how much of the edge will be lost, Singlespeed is so much fun... can I pass up a chance to race it again? That and as last weekend's split of the people showed, reduced fields (Portland and Mansfield for example) from multiple dates at small events makes it hard to pull in deep competition, and with a good majority heading to Maine, what's the attendance going to be like in Sloper?  

So i'll be over thinking this shit until the pre-reg deadline closes for the CT race.  Maybe I can wrangle up someone local to go for a nice long ride on Saturday to offset the not racing thing.

Rumor is there might be some Velo Sprints starting up Thursdays at Caster's on 4th here in PVD soon. Maybe this week, maybe next week.  A handful of those are probably decent enough to keep the leg speed sharper than doing nothing in the mean time.

Was a cool ride in.  Had to dig out the tights. Didn't hitch the trailer up, yesterday was kind of rough on the legs with the double rock load and standing high gear intervals/i mean commute.

Also was running late after locating the winter bin of stuff, faster w/o trailer, shocking I know.

I did stop for a photo op that I just couldn't pass up...  will post it separately.

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