Time to focus

Plans changed a little this week, the girls were going to leave yesterday, but they stayed an extra day, and it was nice. Kind of wish they didn't have to go, wish it would have worked to have them there with me but that whole school thing.

Spent a bit of time this morning going through clothing and kit and figuring out what I'll wear tomorrow morning for the Ted King ride out of Haymarket Studios at The Plains. At some point, not sure why, maybe when i started to wonder about that lockring cog and if i need to take that off (probably) I realized, shit, I wonder if they'll let me have two rings up front even w/o way to shift. Damnit, looks like words say no.

Maybe i SHOULD have brought the garbage truck. If only to be able to use the chainring bolts off it to single up the white blue. Guess I'm going looking for another set of single ring bolts or spacers. At least I'm identifying the problem now and not friday a few hours before the race.

Weather is looking kind of ideal. I was almost hoping for rain on Wed but now, with as much climbing I think dry will be fine and that means I can use the faster wheels. With rain forecast for Friday Kind of def want to have a back up bike and probably put mud tires on.

I laid out the tools in the tool bag looking maybe hoping for spacers. Realized I have a bunch of things I didn't need to bring but were just in there because they were.

Kit will get final sorting after getting washed after the ride tomorrow. 

Then new bar tape for the White bike, both bikes will get a bit of cleaning and tuning love before packing the car tomorrow afternoon and heading south on Monday. 

Excited, scared...  not anxious though, so that's good. More tired than I want but we've had a few late nights and got up early today but there's time to rest soon enough, taking it easy today. 

We had a nice long couple hour hike with everyone yesterday, came back worked on dinner, got on the trainer, and did an abbreviated workout. 15 min warm up followed by 3 three minute intervals with one minute rest between. then a 20 min cool down. Yeah on the trainer. Easier to do, and i got to listen to some Viking Metal on a google music radio station, it was good. No it isn't the same as riding outside but it is close and I got my lungs burning and gave the legs a reminder about what we're supposed to do on Wed. 

And hey, who knows, i might wind up just covering the little chainring with the checkered duct tape per Negacoach's suggestion. we'll see...

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