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Yup, burning it at all the ends.

Saw one of the Jason's at the shop, his comment struck home. Yeah, it is a lot working full time and then all weekend. Yeah. It. Is.

I broke down and finally ordered go faster wheels for the crocket. big fat 25mm ID carbon wheels. Dumped way more cash than I am comfortable with but that's why I'm working on the weekend every weekend. Right? Sort of. Not really, makes it mean I need to do even more. Jumping up to a 38T ring from the 34 and tossing on a new BB, the old one is CRUUUUUNCHY - lemme tell you, these other BB's aint any better/more durable than BB30 bearings.

Should probably look for different tires for Sunday since it'll be swimming, not sure if I want to load up the fancy wheels for that or not. If I have time it might be awesome, but then again, I don't see many windows of opportunity between now and then.

And I'm still looking at trying to ride up to the start. Esp if this is the last one, RdR that is.

Yes - riding 55 miles to do a really hard 62 mile mixed terrain ride on a CX bike may not be super wise but i'm not. And it would be good training for the Coast to Coast.



The hundo on Wed was good. 100.03 miles, i didn't even have to do laps around the block. It felt good, it was nice and it hurt at the end a little but only for the day. Not terribly though. The headwind was rough but it was pretty flat. I did start off listening to a Ursula K book: Planet of Exile. A short book, but decently engaging that I could listen to while riding back and forth alone. I got into it before riding with Goldberg, and then finished all but the last 45 min of it after he headed home. Riding on the bike path meant i felt okay plugging things in my ear and turning out the world.

Of course I dumped the cash into the wheels and well there's a team kit order going in, and now I'm kind of waffling on wanting to get it. Back to the plain rooster, le coq sportif style, not cool and super pricey. sort of torn a bit, for the same cash I can get 2x as many plain black fancy bibs... so, kind of conflicted - hate to pass on this kit identity but I might just have to. I think I can get another year out of the skinsuit i have...  worst case i go back to the old orange '14 edition.

oh well - should leave soon if i'm ever going to get to bed tonight. How to other people live? Going home not worrying about anything until dinner's ready, then eating it and relaxing the whole time. Hard to imagine what life would be like if I got home and didn't start right into making dinner and then doing that until I finished eating then then dishes or not and then sleep. Well at least I have the assist today so I can deal with the headwind w/o adding too much stress to the system.

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