Dead yet?

Pretty close.

It's been pretty much down hill from Supercup Cross in NY.

A few bright spots but not many.

No motivation really to write about it, not sure why I'm bothering right now. Mostly just because I feel an urge to start writing again. Nationals is happening and I'm not headed again this year. Sure given the last 4-6 weeks I've pretty much lost any form I had, I'd get my ass handed to me on a platter at this point. That said if I was going I'd probably be on the bike everyday hitting work outs like an athlete instead of not pedaling, or more or less a nice long bender.

Where to go from here.

Motivation.

I can count the times I've ridden a bike in the last 6 weeks on one hand. Yup. No. It just seems like that I guess.

Never. Happened. Before. Ever.

Ever.

Not since I moved here from Michigan.

This time of year is always a struggle...  But there have been times in the last few days when I think I might have a solution, or at least a few action items to focus on and move forward with. So I've got the making of a plan, we'll see how it shakes out.

Solo dad week starts tomorrow. May try and get the bike room organized enough to leave a bike set up on a trainer in there just to get a few minutes on there. Maybe after the girls go to sleep at night.  Just a few minutes would be a good start.

CX seems so far away. Mental Health days...  probably should start those again. Not sure if I need a new location or not. I like riding into Boston. Maybe it is time to start exploring even more alternate routes.

This past season I was pretty damn happy through most of it.  Sure some frustrations eeked into everything, it wasn't perfect. I was bummed how some races went, but over-all, the season was a major leap for me. Maybe I can re-create that next year.

Right now I think anything I built this year is gone. Starting from Zero now...  time to build though. Will take work. Maybe I'll manage to figure it out. Maybe I'll remember to eat more on the first half of the all day rides, the centuries, the longer rides than in the past. Maybe I'll manage to hang on and not get shelled or bonk.

Stuff to work on.

So many things.

So many things to figure out. But there's some progress that makes it seem possible to figure out.

I finally got over Mittengate I think. Found some warm gloves that should work on the bike. Wore em once on the bike. It worked to shift.  I'm with Jerry on this. Why is everyone buying stupid expensive cycling industry gloves that barely work? So many options out there that are warmer and cheaper.

I'll get back to commuting on the bike soon enough. I hope.

I'll get it sorted out.

Plan is though sometime soon here, actually sort of try and document a bit of the fall, maybe. Or at least make a legit attempt at a true CX season wrap up.

Till then - if you haven't go read this:
http://velocb.blogspot.com/2014/01/bandit4life.html

It was even better than this one: https://vimeo.com/18580120

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