guess what

seatpost is slipping... fuck

hoping that #1 i got it set at the right height and #2 it won't move now.

annoying but not as annoying/terrifying as doing something as simple as filling up a waterbottle

holding the bottle in the left hand and reaching father with the right to turn on the water to have all the little muscles in your back all slowly start to cramp, little tiny slivers of pain radiating... WHY MOTHERFUCKER ouch...

so I'm functional, can ride, but the middle of my back/ribs is this painful annoying ache. Hurts most if I expand my chest with a deep breath. It doesn't make it go away or seize further.

It is in this weird limbo of not quite seized up but def not relaxed...  more on the edge of being seized. the onset was crazy though. nothing i could do to stop it.

talk about putting a damper on the day - mentally distracted AND physically encumbered trying to minimize the pain.

and here i was feeling pretty good about the core stability and strength lately. better get back on my plank shit and stuff, esp if I'm gonna do the singlespeeding...  ThomP suggests you need extra core balance to make it work - i know... oh i know - but i'm also not quite ready to go to one cog. But even with the legs unable to cash the check i wrote on Sunday, the other part of the riding is getting much better, def not riding around every god damn rock, more often than not the times I fuck up are because i'm going to slowly over a feature or in the wrong gear. if you have one cog you are always in the wrong gear so setting up before the feature is key...  have been riding behind Fred too, him on his single speed is helping me gauge that...

the DirtRag going under is sad. But I'm part of the problem. I don't read or buy print mags anymore. I probably would have subscribed to DR but that's about the only one. BIKE back in the day was the bible, Mikey F's column, DR's contributors are the same though - different feel but I felt def more aligned with their base than the MtBAction crew that evolved into the hucking enduro bro DH crew.

haven't had any extra coffee today - but the flip side is i'm really tired... and my back is aching...

feels okay to ride so there's that - should probably actually sign up for the Race on sunday soon.

and go home now - had a few minutes of chill this afternoon - only flow of support issues, managed to check a few things off the long list... guess i should see if the seat post says up... go ahead and make a joke about the old guy's post staying up...

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