Not in any form.
Rode home last night composing a list of those people I'm very much thankful for their friendship and what they do for those around them...
Got a good half dozen plus one or two liners describing people and acknowledging them and then kind of got overwhelmed by the thought of "shit i'm bound to miss someone important"
And got home and started a fire, made dinner, ate dinner, fucked around on the internet instead of doing dishes and attempted to go to sleep, fruitlessly more or less... despite still be super fatigued from the trip to Seattle, I'm not sleeping well. Got a decent bit of catch up sleep this weekend but still kind of tired and then like yesterday when i go a tiny bit overboard on the coffee, well i'm toast for sleeping.
We'll see how tonight goes.
This whole uploading strava from a garmin through the computer is a bit more tedious and doesn't happen as promptly as with the phone app and the temp on it seems to read way higher than the air temp is being reported anywhere along the route.
But after uploading I went to check the Training Calendar.
To check see how many miles/day i need to do to hit the goal for the year. Yes, kind of silly esp since I know i need to do a 100 mile ride sometime before New Year's Eve. And with two days of car travel, the 24th and the 25th and this week booked that leaves it up to the weather and something between the 26th and the 30th... and right now the 10 day has rain on half of those days. But I really just need ONE day. One clear decent not shitty day.
And then an interuption got me thinking... if i do the Hundo on Thursday, I don't have to bring the bike. Maybe I'll start running or just take another week off. I'm not racing nationals, no way no how no sir. Fuck. That. Shit.
Also, looked at Strava, I've ridden on 9 of the days since the last Hundo. That's a pretty sad looking December. But I can hit both the 8k and the Hundo in one swoop, reduce the amount of stuff I bring to VA, maybe I'll go running down there. There are some nice trails right out my in-laws front door. Maybe this year I make progress at getting to the point of doing the run commute?
Oh, numbers, we all like nice numbers? This is where I stand after this morning's commute:
7878.7
Almost tempting to just hang up the bike now, mic drop and walk away from 2016.
But no, that would screw up my NECX HOTM Club challenge. I need that spike in Dec. And I actually probably could use the week w/o the bike in VA.
Only question is: am I up to the challenge of doing a 100 miles in 30-45ºF weather? Yeah, probably. Def wearing thermal bib tights under regular tights. And likely gonna stop for hot coffee somewhere (in the middle I am guessing). Wouldn't be my coldest hundo either.
Odd though, reflecting, body is staying TAKE A BREAK FOOL. At least that's how I'm interpreting it, could just be lingering fatigue from the last couple months. Or who knows.
Anyway, maybe instead of riding i'll work on the back log of writing in VA. A bit less physically taxing but equally isolating and alone. Maybe I'll just read instead.
Time to blast this out of draft mode.
Heddwch
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