smackdown

i changed up a variable, Leland had to keep under a certain wattage...

it wasn't the worst, about the same as last week, a touch faster maybe, hurt way less. Progress? Consistency?

Coming around? Maybe. Too close to tell, but trying to make stuff happen. Working? We'll see.

It was funny, we were rolling out, three of us, Kurt, Syl and myself. Two kids on raleigh fixed gear bikes actually showed up. They were all fire and energy until we turned onto Woodward, Leland bumped the pace up to about 24 or so and they were gone by the turn on to prospect. we worked together pretty well over a bit. On Pine Syl or Kurt jumped a bit and Leland kept his watts low and I hung on his wheel, not easy for me but i was not alone, we caught the other two at Homestead, then went into Rocky Hill. We crested pretty close together, Kurt's knee was a bit wonky so he took it easy at the finish of Rocky and I waited and we cruised over to hillside and he kicked my ass. But we found the other two before Reed and rode back together.

Nice hard pace on Walker, I was last wheel, working, then Leland attacked the finish, I could tell he was just trying to do a high cadence sprint workout but fuck it,,,  i sprinted too, 44x11 at a peak 109 RPM, I was comfortable at that cadence, felt good to spike the HR that high, took a while to recover. But coming around.

The ride home into the wind was mitigated by the fact that it shifted a bit.

But Smackdown was not so terrible.

Not sure next week will work timing wise but we'll see when the department retreat I'm giving a talk at finished. May be in time.

And no Birthday ride for me this year. Streaks are meant to be broken.

But another post soon, about something else, will take a bit to explain, but short preview: I ordered a new bike.

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