changing it up

two challenges for May...

the first: https://nationalbikechallenge.org/ 

the second? well kind of hoping the first helps with the second.

kind of has to do with peak fatness (as close as i've been to how fat i was at my last attempt at Battenkill). good point to this peak fatness is it isn't all fatness...  but still...  need to figure out what is fatness and what isn't.

Sunday's ride - the compromise ride, woke up, drank a quad of espresso and rode bike. No calories. Had another coffee after getting back, then ate a small amount of food. Monday's long ride, same thing - coffee, but this time 1.5 quads and much later and more tired, but still no calories. Now sure, it wasn't that long of a ride. But it was first thing, no bonk, not fast but also on super slow bike with backpack.

Long commute was put on hold this morning #1 because rain, #2 needed to be in to help with imaging challenge #3 hoping to get smackdown in and last night legs were cramping for odd reason. Not sure, but i did drink way more water last night than usual. despite salty dinner and a grillo pickle to fight toe cramps after getting home. odd. but honestly makes sense, the energy and work Sunday morning and then followed up with a long day Sunday and then Monday's long ride in, despite being that short, the only way to share how slow and how much effort it is on that is to get a powermeter on there and well that ain't gonna happen. Took quite a bit of work and maybe legs were just not used to it.

Weather is clearing though, so smackdown looks like it'll happen.

I don't really have many hopes or expectations for tonight but even if legs are shit like last week it will still be nice to get out and try and hang on as long as possible and worst case i get out for a different kind of ride than a commute.

Just wish it was a touch warmer.

ah well

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