had it for a day

back down to 2nd...  plenty of cushion to 3rd...  but still - difference is 10 miles. I would have had to head back after dark to get it done, to keep the lead.

We'll see what today brings. Heading out with KOM Goldberg and Jason, hoping they are kind to me on the hills, or hoping my legs felt like they did last night on the way home.

It is odd. I'm not fast but I can find much longer sustained power now wondering what it would be like if I was able to get some long night sleep (dogs were a pain last night and half of the house left early for soccer tournament - i'm here to get oldest where she needs to be).

A mark I never thought i'd make is the doubling of the annual mileage in the month of May. Looks like that'll happen easily. Today likely, way early. Also potentially setting new weekly record for myself, AND maybe getting enough miles this weekend to hit 1000 miles in two weeks.

I think given that the legs are feeling just a wee tired and I'm not resting much that I'm ready for some of Matt's adventure. Something I'd never thought I'd see is these side by side numbers

But they are just numbers and he'd kick my ass anyway, this extra mass isn't inconsequential and my elevation gain is minimal and I actively (lately) have avoided going up. Climbing is suffering lately. Even on high carb, full glycogen loads. Possibly fatigue maybe. We'll know in a couple weeks.

Thursday's ride with DB was fun, it was hot but manageable, ice cream maybe less than ideal mid/end ride fuel, but it tasted good at the time. hysterical trying to meet up with Chip. esp after seeing his twitter stuff when i got back.

Yes I'm riding with my phone just in GPS mode. No mobile data, the only radio on is the GPS and the old fashioned text/voice stuff. I will say swipe text is super easy one handed while riding. I just happen to pick the bumpiest sections of roads while riding to try and get a location lock on Chip.

We wound up stopping for a 10-15 minutes in the shade. I ate my second breakfast sandwich of the day (third was at chip's house, then ice cream then 4th sandwich on bike path home) That's it. no other food, no gels, no blocks, no bars. Just food, and not very frequently. And it was fine. Went through more water than I normally do but it was also in the high 80s with bright full sun.

No routing issues really. Most of the roads we were familiar with, or DB's garmin gave us heads up (it waited to die until we were in familiar territory. I remembered most of the route from the one ride to Chip's last summer, at least once Jason's route merged onto the one I took. Jason's route was much better, but it doesn't have any ice cream along the way so we headed home via Diamond hill.

But we still checked out the end of the bike path, and we still hit some single track with a few rocks. Chip was on his IDGAF monster bike and DB and me on our road tires. Issokay no one died in the woods.

Chip did pull an abrupt right turn in front of me and I kind of nearly went straight into his rear robot der but somehow managed to avoid destroying his bike and supermanning onto the pavement. "Thanks for the heads up chip"

Saw the Pirro handi-work, got some water and coffee, some shoogs stickers and DB and I headed back home. We opted for the dirt instead of the busy roads and popped back out on Noon Hill. Then rode through Wrecktham (it sucks a bit) and the road to Cumberland from there isn't great, but we had very few issues. Found Ice cream. (coffee) ate it, decided to ride around the reservoir to make sure we got the full hundo, headed back into town, stopped at the bike shop for cold water and to pause for a minute, then parted ways. I did a few extra miles on the bike path just to pad the number (and because I felt still pretty good and had plenty of time) and fortunately those extra miles were what got me that one point lead on yesterday's leaderboard.

But you know the story, Jan got 11 more miles than I did yesterday despite my attempts to maximize my limited time by pushing the pace and trying for higher average speed...

I should fire up the ride fuel machine (and make a shit ton more coffee) and make the breakfast sandwiches. Route looks to be about 78 miles. Jan probably will do 80+ again, but i've gotta work when I get back from the ride and then drive the kid to the cape in the afternoon (yeah no way out of that - hopefully evening traffic won't be terrible - it will be what it is).

Now to pick which bike to ride today....  need climbing advantage and also want to match Goldberg's bike so I'll ride the Klein. Give the worn out old black blue a rest.

Looks to be another scorcher. Too bad white kit is dirty! Better get it washed up for Tuesday!

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