what happened to this week?

Boom gone.

what to show for it?

no sleep (yeah back on the no sleep cycle again)

no training

I did finally get around to washing the bike last night.  But washing bikes in the dark with poor lighting and nothing but a hose and a rag sometimes doesn't produce the best results.

But goal was to clean and lube the chain and put the SRAM cassette on the Zipps.  One race and i had to improvise a chain whip to get the shimano cassette off. I'm not a fan of the alloy freehub bodies.

The SRAM cassettes do have more spline teeth so hopefully that will make a difference. But that's done at least.

Both chains are clean and since today was a drive in day, well they are staying clean even in the rain.

Except driving in i went light today. nothing to pack for lunch so I was just going to grab something.

Looks like I'm grabbing coffee too... left the coffee making stuff (the ground up beans) at home. After a night of little to no sleep, just lots of tossing and turning and all that, no coffee isn't good.

But i did get at least the grinding side of the rear brakes on the car replaced.

Of course it wasn't simple. Should have been. the actually brake pad replacing was simple.

But yeah the wheel was stuck. Drove around for a while with the bolts loose and the one i needed to do came loose. second and third trip had no success at knocking the driver's side one loose. Guess I go at that later, after vermont or something.  Or find a bigger hammer.

Not packed for this weekend... food beer bikes kit... that's it.

the solo drive is going to suck something fierce at least on the way home on Sunday. But I know the way at least. just have to remember to grab the EZpass thing.

at least it is a somewhat slow morning here so far. busted scope is going on day 4 of service engineer making problems worse.  nothing like the very last one in the territory and a scope from what? 1989? Probably assembled in 1990, but design is solid mid-late 80s. It was working. Now it isn't. But it did take out an super overpriced pressure switch on the facility air compressor.  I gotta get that changed, some what complex to get it on, may mean removal of the pump from the tank to get the switch on and then all the wiring and stuff. not. this. morning.

The legs are going to be interesting this weekend.  Heavy course sounds good, but i bet it drains super well. Only maybe thing we can hope for on the course (if they did actually get rain) is that it won't be dusty.

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