HOLY CRAP

I've done the Tower Hill loop for years, with lots of people. Tonight i got a ton of PRs on strava thing. Now first 'fuck strava' but besides that it is a metric that carries through over the years. Now so I really haven't been using strava as long as I've been doing Tower hill but arguable one of my faster years was '13 and i was recording it then.

So.

ANYWAY ... mostly who cares. but also I got all those PRs dead tired, mentally fried and probably with lower energy levels. Hell I didn't even notice the first hill on River Road, totally don't remember going up it. I do remember getting to the point of no more hills on River road and being like "I think I missed one? How? what?"

Bart had told me about a little climb he discovered up in the Diamond Hill area. Not new, but a road I've never heard of or ridden on. So fuck it. Eian wanted to ride today I got done early even though I worked on a paid holiday. Yeah I got paid to NOT work today and I still scheduled 2 new microscope trainings today. Why? Because I'm an overly dedicated person who feels empathy for everyone who is trying desperately to get on the new scope and start using it.

as an aside - everyone who has had seat time on it has been blown away. Validating the effort and the need to be here instead of dinking and eating at super fancy places in Miami and Boca and Pamplona beach or where ever my family is now w/o me. Vacation bitter? No. not me.

So work, got second training done, got on bike and went to take a look at this road Bart told me about on Sunday. It was awesome and I can't move. Legs destroyed.

Also I need to make dinner.

So fuck it making massive pile of pasta, mushroom kale beef tomato sauce. I'd use wine but I only have beer and I don't think that'll be good in there, or if it is good I'm not wanting to try right now.

Food finished, finally. Eating at 8:50 not so bad, or not so good. Food's not bad, not mind blowing, which is not good because there is a giant pile of it. I may not have to cook for a few days, but that's not a bad thing I guess seeing how much effort it took to make it happen when I was totally dead from the ride and the day.

And it really isn't bad.

Better have some more, gotta pedal in the AM. Gotta keep going. Head up moving forward.

Good think I love what I do and am good at it, this might be torture if I didn't. also. so tired. ugh.

But mushrooms so good.

maybe a splash too much of skinnywhitedude's milk in bolognese, but not really terrible.

okay - shit to do stuff to make happen head up moving forward so overwhelmed. Oh well.

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( i have no idea where I started off wanting to go with this post, i guess cooking dinner fried my already fried brain - oops)