Fruitlands on saturday!

Yeah, kind of almost the worst GeWilli course possible. But hey when you're building fitness, when you're slower than you've been in a while, why not go for the challenge.

Lots of reasons not to. Everyone around me is sick and I'm barely hanging on. Bike has one gear, and that place isn't SSCX friendly. And no, while I contemplated running it as it is, I don't want to run that much. And the gearing is actually pretty mud friendly, and by that I mean low and slow. You only go as fast as your easiest gear. And no - i STILL don't have mud tires on the bike. Should have put them on for Gloucester, should have put them on for CrosstoBeerFest (awesome Dirtwire video up about the race BTW -

There's a good bit of GeWilli footage in there.

And I'm tired. BUT you know it is promoted by a couple of great guys. Kalon cross wasn't terrible but it was and it wasn't. Yes I've raced it before, kind of enjoy it I suppose. Although I'm getting tired of driving up to exit 27 or whatever it is for all these races. But that's not a bad thing. I know where I'm going mostly. In this case head to Bolton Orchards, turn right and drive around some more.

I've been getting a pile of emails asking about the class I'm teaching in the spring. Yeah, I teach people here at the Ivy towers, as Solobreak liked to heckle me about. That's pretty blah for me but i guess it is kind of cool to have a pretty high demand unique class that some of the brightest kids in the country want to take. Not many legacy kids make it to the level of microscope class. Anyway - i have to add that to the pile of stuff. Syllabus, registrar, overrides, interviews, guest lectures, samples, ordering foldscopes, arranging gallery viewing of their stuff. There's a good pile of everything else that didn't get done while I was working with the folks from PDX on the microscope.

BUT

I moved a training session from this morning to tomorrow morning and have taken a day off.

Vacation day. Use two by the end of the month or lose them both.

I might be losing one. Oh well. Better than losing two.

Stuck in bed with my pack. One 50# hot pad pressed as tightly against my side as she can, sleeping, the other curled up like a furry doughnut happy as hell to be sleeping on the comfy bed in proximity to me. I have a good pack. These two are pretty special. Nice and warm too.

Making it tough to get up and wash the Crosstobeerfest mud off the bike and clean up the wheels so I can change the tires and gears.

I kind of also want to get the White blue franken bike revival on the trainer and put some effort in the legs. Need to hit the grocery store too...  and need more coffee.

The world seems to be going to hell, or at least this country is. Having the dogs to hang out with, a race to focus on, work to keep me busy and engaged if slightly burnt out and exhausted, not bad. Waffle between feeling good and not happy, oddly maybe it is having the day off, still being in bed with the dogs relaxing and letting it all go for a few minutes is good.

I worked to make sure I didn't have any cross-over with jerry on twitter last night - still tempted to go through and block all his other accounts in retaliation but whatever... it is part of the re-evaluation. How to figure out moving on, maintaining who I am and striving to be a more positive supportive person everywhere, not just in person but on the social medias and all that.

I need another cup of coffee and it isn't going to make itself. but man is it nice and warm under the covers with this sleeping dog on top of them. So snuggly.

 Yeah yeah, no dogs in bed. But they are so cute and they really like it.

And they are only 50#, and yeah they shed a TON. and this white one snores like me after drinking a bottle of vodka.

Formatting is a bit odd, not having a computer to write this and compose like normal. Oh well.

But back to the top, Fruitlands. It is hard. It is a Litka race. Running and hills. Elevation change and fitness.

I have dropped a handful of pounds lately. These sporadic races combined with running low on calories frequently have started to make an impact. My skinny pants fit better now. Not bad.

But I am still drinking way more coffee than I should, flip side? I'm still falling asleep easily and sleeping well. So I'll cut back when i have a real vacation or something. IE NEVER.

At least the sun is coming out. Should make it more tolerable to play with the hose and brushes and clean off the bike. Then get on the trainer, should have done it yesterday to allow more recovery for Saturday but I'll take it easy tomorrow.

I'll stop rambling now. Mostly all this is who cares. Good to have an inanimate object to talk to about stupid stuff - aka the web log.




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