On track maybe?

Maybe not.

Better headspace? Yes. Why?

No clue. Other than time. Like a big old steam ship it takes me a long time to get back on course. Too much surface above water, easily influenced by winds and weather out of my control. Need a deeper Keel, need some sea anchors that can be thrown out as a preventive measure.

I'll work on that.



Work, need to get to the shop a bit more too, need to work more.

Partly actually thinking about going single speed on the blue bike because whats the point of having gears if i just wear them out all the time?  Spent a few mimutes looking, ain't nuttin on the market to make the BB30 eccentric w/o buying a new crank. Seems the threaded adapters are only centering not eccentric, or they are for 24mm axle cranks. And that's kind of dumb. But hard to say if going with a chain tensioner and spacers and a new chain ring and a 1sp chain is a better idea. Been thinking about this for a long time...  no solution is easily presentable.

More musing, that were more obscrution than positive were thinking about the fueling and battery life for the Four Hills of the Apocalypse ride on Monday next week.  Tentative, but mostly in planning.

Should make it happen. We'll see. Early departure. But Fueling. yes There are stores along the way, but food from convenience stores is less than enticing to me, yes i know, # oats...  Not opposed to fueling up, or stopping for a big lunch. Probably not a bad idea. But looking back at New London and Woods Hole rides I know that after a big lunch stop I stop eating for a while because I'm just too full, and then oops, didn't start eating soon enough and usually bonk a bit. VS rides when i just have to keep eating steadily.  eating every 45-60 min means you're constantly topping up the mass of food in the stomach, kind of keeping the bolus constant so the calories steadily keep being absorbed. Also on longer rides if you let the stomach empty totally it can shut down and then you're kind of fucked. So yes idea as crazy as it sounds is to carry the bulk of calories with me.  Thinking about going with them muffin tin frittata things, breakfast sandwiches, and GeWillies. But storage...  That Target Handlebar bag that Uri suggested actually seems like a damn good idea. granted could always just do the string bag backpack. It is small and light enough that it won't be too much extra, and should be mostly empty for the second half anyway, right? Yeah I'm way overthinking it. Fuck it just do the ride on Little Debbie snack foods from the convenience store. That or stop at every dunkin donut place and get a breakfast sandwich or donut at each one. And coffee.  It is a RI ride. That said that long middle stretch is pretty rural and there ain't much that we go through for a long time. Which is weird but oddly true. Need to have fuel on board.

Second musing along the same lines is battery life on the phone. I think I can probably get the ride recorded with strava on the phone if i put the phone in Airplane mode, and leave the screen off as much as possible and use the external battery pack that I have. That should do the trick. People are tired of my 'gramming anyway. No need to photo document anything much, at least maybe only a four times, one for each hill. Plus start and finish, or none, no pictures is easier.

And then which bike? The Black Blue is the most comfortable, but it isn't anything Id want to attempt to do the ride on so we'll go with the Klein. Sort of the anti-comfort bike by most standards, although I find it to be plenty comfortable except for the bars, and that's a problem but at least the drive train is is new and it is much more comfortable than the White Blue. Which in all honesty should probably be put back in service until i can get the drive train refreshed on the black blue, or I turn it into a single speed or I just give up on riding bikes for more than just getting back and forth to work.

I'd love an excuse to get the Paramount back out but I'm not dragging that out to the PBike TT, mostly because of Pbike and the location of the TT and hills and stuff, nice flat 20 min course is what I want. But then for CX prep I guess I should either get on the trainer or go back to do the old Prov Velo loop TT and do it on the White Blue (if I can find some road wheels for it w/o taking them from another bike).

In the midst of all this my fuel pump on the passat is leaking, need to figure out if a fix is possible. The EGR valve needs to be replaced on the Van, wee. And I need to fix a gutter section or two on the house and a few bits of spongey trim. And a long list of other stuff. But hey, we'll get to it all when it becomes most critical. AKA ALL AT ONCE more than likely.

challenging logistics here this week, then schedule changes completely and we'll see what happens. Kind of at the overwhelmed by everything that has to get done so much so that I'm getting stuff done but not nearly at the pace I need to be at. I'm only me and I am not even very good at that, but what else is there to do about it? Not much. It is what it is. Gotta stay on track, focused and keep my shit together better.

At least it is raining and shitty outside, I won't have to deal with too many idiots on the bike path for the commute home.

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