Strava finally got me the archive link. Only 489MB, not so bad. Almost four thousand activities...
Started the morning slow - kid joined me for shopping trip, went to get in the van, click nothing... something's dead. Not even a glimmer like a dead battery, turn key to start from on, nothing...
Have I mentioned it's been sitting on my mind a bit lately? Inspection sticker is due, exhaust has a leak in one of the pipes, needs to be replaced, who knows what else. And now this? Can't even drive it there.
Can't really go MTB'n even. No hitch or roof rack on the other little car (it is a wagon, not tiny but comparably so).
Maybe it is an easy fix, maybe not, but again the unknown. And the timing. Coming up on the Christmas holiday, then New Year comes around and 2020 is over.
But this is one last kick in the balls I did not want or expect. Sure I guess it was always a possibility, could have happened down in Gansett and that might have caused more complications. Could have died at the grocery store. But my brain is my worst enemy and I've already been on the edge this week, this kind of walked up behind me and shoved me hard over the edge.
I've been on the trainer in the basement 3 days in a row now Tonight was the longest session, had to stop and check it, the fluid unit was getting so hot it was stinking, and I wasn't even going fast. Hell my speed and hr sort of declined as the ride went on and I didn't even go that hard.
I watched the end of IO (sci fi movie on Netflix- kid signed up again at urging of their mother so the two of them could watch the crown). I started it the day before. Last night i just listened to a book. So when that finished I dug around and found AO - or whatever Anon? with Clive Owen... some more sci fi bullshit...
Would zwifting be better? Perhaps, it might, but like i mentioned on Strava, not with this trainer and not without power. Haven't quite figured out how to program a trainer workout yet, the garmin let me build something and then do it - Wahoo not so much. I could do some of the canned ones that came with it, but they look power based and not quite what I want. But I have speed, cadence and HR numbers. Granted speed is only relative to this trainer and not outside.
This has been a good distraction but not really helping. Still kind of a smoldering pile of shit feeling right now. And of course there is renewed discussion about what the kid should drive should learn to drive on, big no way on the Minivan. Funny, how it was the reliable vehicle last year this time, other than the wheel bearings. And now it is sitting dead out front and i'm at about the same or worse position trying to diagnose it than I was with the volvo... at this point i'm just inclined to have it towed to the garage that did the wheel bearings last year and has done the inspections. Throw money at it maybe, or give them enough money to figure out the extent and the cause and the cost to fix and then call the salvage yard and drop back to a one car family until something else can be sorted.
know anyone looking to rehome a decent car?
at least i got the grocery shopping done, don't have to be in Gansett for a while, and the trails are still wrecked and covered with snow... Not sure I can mentally or physically do 500km on the trainer between the 26th and the 31st, esp not this trainer. But maybe that's just what I need to do... get a nice long audio book and get some huge steady state miles in. oh i stopped the upload of the archive because it was all being loaded in as the MTB... that's gonna be a draw back to that importation..
no start on the van, no mtb, no travel, trainer sounds not terrible, feels it tho...
anyway - i've gotta figure out how to get out of my own head here and do something... not sure how to recalibrate...
oh well life goes on and 2020 keeps being 2020...
heddwch
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