Planning? yeah here, we're going to toss everything out the window that you sort of had figured out.
This heat is also messing with everything too.
Not really sleeping through the night, which wasn't a problem last week when i attempted to take a vacation of sorts. I would get up with the dog, feed her, catch up on the overnight emails and climb back in bed and fall completely asleep. Was kind of nice.
This morning yeah. Oh right, can't go to sleep. Gotta hang out at the house later than normal to make sure the Dancer's ride actually showed up because if not I'd have to change plans and drive her in. The delay actually worked out brilliantly.
So dragging from more or less being away from 2:30-5:30 finally a wave of awesome sleep rolled over me and then the dog said, "dude! get up and feed me at 6." Sweet. F'n zoned out. Took forever to get some breakfast made and then lunches made and packed for the Runner and the Dancer, or it just felt like it. The cup of coffee helped. But. Yeah not enough.
Anyway the brilliance of rolling out was i just was NOT feeling it. click on the strava cause I'm obsessive about some stuff, maybe you've noticed. Roll out.
When I'm on the white blue I usually blast over through the park. Part of that is hopping a nice tall sharp granite curb. There's one section that's a bit broken, lower penalty for hopping or clipping rear wheel. I head over for it and overshoot by 2 inches cause i'm a brain dead dumbass. The next section is a good inch higher and sharp like a knife. oops. Clear the front and decide to do a side hop with the back wheel. lift and pull it to the right.
perfect. Hey that was cool.
but not the brilliant part. So i go from that little happy boost to seeing an elusive figure on a bike. One of the Marks. The Bristol Mark. Used to see him regularly when hauling the kid. He's tapered back a bit but recently has made a resurgence. But up until now he was just rumored to be out there, I hadn't seen him yet. And the weather was remarkably nice too. Had a nice little social ride in. Battled cars together on Angell. Was good.
Very good.
The weather has been torturing me. The 4th? got 40 miles in the heat. Friday? Got a haircut (finally) and headed into the shop. But not till 11:30? Kind of shitty and hot and humid and hot. And then of course I wore a backpack (wanted a place to put lunch and a waterbottle). Dumb. But not that bad. Shop though, no AC. Way in the back where my stand is, not so cool. But there are fans, and it is fun, good mental change of pace, being shop rats and stuff. Where else does random shit come out of the mouth of other bike mechanics like "Dude It is so hot in here I want to T-Bag a Dell's" it was pretty warm. And I'm building more slowly but you know? It doesn't really matter all that much because as someone pointed out, it is fun, and that's good.
Headed out and home with enough time to get cleaned up, changed and a nice salad eaten and headed out to the Mowgli's concert, picked up a few missing things for the potato salad and got to cooking, and chopping. Carried it over on Saturday morning early.
Saturday at least I got on the bike to head in a bit earlier, potato salad was made and I was out the door by almost 9. Then cranked through a few and headed out to smithfield in the 2-3pm heat. Woah. So hot.
What's worse than riding in 95 full sun heat? Riding next to a car pumping extra heat out on you. The Woony was open so that was nice. Greenville is a wide open torture road. But it felt pretty damn good. Not terribly fast but it was kind of nice.
Getting to the party with the pool was pretty awesome, cooled right off. Super comfortable.
Sunday? more riding in, in the middle of the day. The Bike path was PACKED on the 4th, parking lots overflowing. By Sunday I think everyone who had any thought of riding tried it earlier in the long weekend and realized it kind of sucked. And really I've never seen the big lot at the top of the path that empty on a Sunday in the summer.
Headed out to the Circle A/Prov Velo Club party. Caught up with a great group of people. Then managed to make my way home. Busy weekend of being social. Was a nice change. A wee bit exhausting but. Good.
This week the routine is tossed out the window. The runner is out of town for part of it at a conference, the little one is getting back on friday and we get her tuned up for 10+ days straight of soccer starting with indoor playoffs.
Riding?
I think my mileage is going to take a big hit. But will chalk it up to phasic something or other. And I still think I can make the TT, so it probably won't be as bad as May started out but, anything half resembling building towards CX is going to be put off for a while.
A good. Rambling pile of nonsense today. Why? Need to get it out. On the up side I've been feeling pretty solid lately. On the not pissed at everything sort of way and that's a good thing. Pissed off dark grumpy GeWilli is probably far more entertaining and I'll be back there sooner than I want but I'm chillin with this mode now. Trying not to focus on the disappointments, hoping i can at least solve the lack of riding to Boston w/in the next couple three weeks. I miss popping in and saying hey to Jamie, Kyle and Kevin. Trying to focus on staying positive.
Yeah so i'll go back to only writing about rides or something. I DO really want to make it out for Dawn Patrol one of these days when waking up at 5am doesn't seem like a fucking stupid idea. Because getting up at 5am and getting on the bike at 5:30 when i could be sleeping till maybe 8am (after feeding the dog at 6) seems kind of dumb, but hey.
Riding bikes is kind of awesome. Even if you are a GeWilli.
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