But legs weren't amazing yesterday but they weren't like they were the last handful of Smackdowns.
We were missing a few fast people but we still had this big Eian kid who graduated from UNH and knows of RYAN T KELLY as a legend, Jonathan a young gun student at the ivy branch of colleges here, and Andrew who's in good form and getting in better form. Fox showed up as usual and then there was the appearance of the German sibling bike of my Klein, Burke's Storck. There were a ton of random Brown and RISD kids out riding last night, exam week lately and pretty soon they will all be gone, I guess they were out getting a nice last ride in on our kick ass roads.
No Joke, the riding down here really is pretty sweet.
I worked but skipped a pull here and there, but I still burried myself a good number of times. The Klein felt great, the wheels feel slow, but hey, you train on training wheels and race on race wheels right? If I trained on super fast wheels I wouldn't have to work as hard. Not that this is really training, it is almost my racing lately. But hey. Why make it any easier for myself? in terms of pedaling.
Anyway, the changes I made since last week, seem to be making a difference. And I do need to stick with it, at least most of the week.
I'm not going to rehash the whole ride other than as ride leader and being able to hang with the group, aka not last up Pine (second to Andrew) I was able to force a soft/no pedal until Fox caught back on. He gave a massive pull most of the way up Pine before pulling off. So last night I said If you take a solid pull on one of the 'segments' we'll regroup and wait for you once past the segment.
Simple enough. Sure it means more interval like smackdown. If you get dropped and didn't take a turn, well that was different. But the group was close enough in ability last night that we were able to make that practice work. Eian is a f'n BEAST btw. I haven't results stalked him yet but he's a strong kid.
My legs weren't all there. But they weren't useless like the last few smackdowns.
I do however need to do more than just this one change to start getting some sort of cycling form. I need to do. I wish the WeeBike Grand Prix (this strava segment competition) wasn't so far away. Initially I dismissed it because of the requirments of either HRM or Power data in the strava file... and I have neither. But then I said something and was granted a waiver. Then I looked at the ride there. Now if the kid has indoor soccer practice down at Wideworld South, well then heck yeah, I'll bring the bike. But that's very unlikely, also I never get over to that side of RI. Might as well be New York. But hey if you're down that way - give it a shot. Boost the number of people riding that segment eh?
boring ride report. so much going on. had plans to finally write up the RdR2015 wrap up/conclusion.
But that creative muster is missing. Words aren't flowing quite the way I want, thoughts occupied a bit on the Amanda Batty web log post/PinkGate as Padrig calls it.
I saw Amanda's post almost in real time. I saw a link to it somewhere and read it. And was shocked and angry and sad all at once. There are some really aweful people on the internet. Side topic but I was banned from a forum because I was being a bit too clinical and pointed when pointing out people were wrong, even though I was correct and had all the facts that backed up what I was saying 100%. That whole honey flies vinegar thing (which is a funny contradiction anyway), we were talking about that whole thing at the shop, tuesday maybe? But there is a line to draw, being wrong about knowing the right way to set the timing on a Bosch VE-Pump'ed diesel engine is very different than describing the ride of a mountain bike like someone who's intoxicated. I don't even feel comfortable writing what they guy said in his review.
Padrig's post today was great. Good too see someone in the industry calling more attention to Amanda's story. PinkGate is appropriate. Let me clarify, it isn't great that we have to talk about it, but it was a well crafted bit of writing on the topic.
I know a few people who make super sexist, inappropriate jokes publicly. They say it to make their (other) friends laugh. I've expressed my dissapointment in the jokes, the innapropriateness. I've been the only one in the group not laughing. I don't like being that person, but I'm not going to fake it to fit in. And I won't stop voicing my objection. But then I'm not your normal guy I guess, and I'm okay with that.
I just read the DailyDot article that CCR posted on FB about this (holy SHIT DUDE ghostery has 93 tracking targets!!!!!! NINETY THREE THAT'S LIKE PO R N LEVEL INVASIVE SHIT)
Got to the end, despite the 93 tracking things gathering all my data, and got to this:
[Coffey] said that "the only way to establish a little more balance" on Pinkbike "is to continue to build out our women's initiatives." He added, "We value the female voice but we insist on promoting quality, balanced and well researched articles."I interpret what Coffey says as:
we value our male readership more and don't want to offend them or endanger their particpation or our click revenue, so we want to go very slowly so as not to piss off all the men, but we'll move really slowly because that always works in the best interest of white men in control who don't like change.Lots and lots of backpedaling and defense on the PB side of things. Understandable but still completely unacceptable.
All I can think of is #3 on this list that I saw yesterday;
3.) “Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever”
http://airows.com/travel/23-brilliant-life-lessons-from-anthony-bourdain (pretty low on the ghostery's counter for a clickbait article fwiw 9-15)
Now maybe Coffey isn't lying, but stretching the truth, politicing. positioning in defensive reaction to a substantiated accusation without ever admitting fault and beyond 'yeah maybe we should have done it a little different but it is really not our problem it is her problem, she's ____'
Okay - i'll shut up [for the moment],
heddwch
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