why? what not?
things were pretty good- there's a lot of bad shit going on, not trying to say it was good...
it was managable tho. now? fuck this whole trial is oddly causing some serious stress feelings, waves of dread and shit, i don't like it. I'm holding on pretty well, don't need this eroding what tenuous grip I have on it all. can't really afford to let go.
I mean I just sent an email i forgot about amidst all the other meetings and work, clicked the twitter tab and two pages of quick scrolling and it is all hearing stuff.
Bossman brought up that he's saying he's noticed all the emails about me being at my max vacation balance, I take two days off - boom a month rolls around and I have to take two more days off... Realized that the holiday/winter break, while not short was fucking stress filled - self induced (stupid Festive 500) and extrinsic (car and life BS). I felt more recovered after two days at home there at the end of January. And then i went and fucked it all up by doing a 3x20min session.
it is snowing again.
hopefully not the full 5" potentially predicted, hopefully less than the 3" of the low prediction, we'll see...
So yeah.
Oh and I rode the Crossrip+ this morning. Was kind of scary going that fast over the bumpy ice and ruts. Scary in that 'if i crash this is going to hurt' scary. It was fine tho, I kept speed to just paint mixer bouncing not much worse, but wow, BUMPY. Except the clear spots. Those were nice.
And the places where I didn't clear? Edge to edge foot traffic FUCKING SUCKS - all stomped down and lumpy and tough to hold your line.
Was nice riding with the sunset last night. Needed lights once I got to riverside - snow doesn't have much contrast in the low light, no headlight and I couldn't tell where the edges of the plow berm I made were - so little difference in the snow.
Oh and riding down to the remote location today, the rear brakes were dragging. There was no lever play. Oh... shit... DOT fluid.
Remember a year or so ago, riding home with a full trailer of groceries and the front locked up? Yeah, I should have bled it all then. I didn't.
And I should have been bleeding it annually. At least after every pad change, but I haven't put new pads in in a long time. And I put metal ones (not resin) and they are lasting nicely. Guess I'll need to do a brake bleed, haul this to the shop I guess. Someday. Maybe not this weekend. I cracked the top seal on the hoods and removed a couple good drops worth. Actually it kind of volcanoed out when I unscrewed it (T10 BTW). Now there's not too much fluid. But probably will happen again when it sucks up more water. It needs a bleed.
I don't like DOT fluid. Why the fuck would anyone want to use that nasty shit anyway? Oh well. It shouldn't stop me from getting home.
Battery is all charged up but there's no way I want to drag the plow for 90 min tonight. Maybe tomorrow is a good MTB day. Change things up. If I'm going slow I might as well have a dropper post.
BTW Sunday's ride, all over 3 hours elapsed time was pretty much dropper down, aka standing. I remember first with this bike that I could barely make it a few minutes without collapsing onto the saddle, now I go for 5-7 miles of flowy tight singlespeed singletrack w/o ever sitting down or raising the Dropper. Big difference. There's some serious adaptation going on. Does it make me faster? Dunno, don't think so. No races to find out. But I think it helps with the core stability development. Also after all that time on the Ebike, my lower back isn't fucked. We'll see after today, but usually just one ride, and def after back to back days on it, I can't move in the morning. Maybe there's something related to it? A weakness/imbalance corrected by MTB'n? Possible. Hey - there ya go. Get yourself a Hardtail MTB with a dropper post. Ride it.
DAMNIT - there was a thought line I had writing the above that I wanted to go into but... can't.... remember....
Oh well.
I laughed as this song came through the playlist just now:
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