Was a bit crazy lately, catching up on sleep slowly, kind of. This whole getting old thing sucks for that. Gone are the days of sleeping all day and then sleeping at night.
Almost felt like taking a second nap but buckled down, did dishes and the rest of the adult shit that needed to be done and went to be early.
Funny, I DO seem to be able to go to bed earlier. Maybe that's the bad sign. or good sign? Can't sleep in but I can go to bed early.
Was sidetracked for a bit - fount a good quote - it resonated - then had this crazy recognition that there are a lot of people I follow on the socials that don't follow back but there are still interactions at times.
Kind of funny when Resultsboy followed me on twitter, just before or after 24HOGG, can't remember, maybe after.
I really don't care but at some level that is a lie. I care a little but then stop caring. Recognize move on.
Funny, how doing that fixes a lot of shit.
The quote that started that was from last week's blog post over AHTBM
You’re absolutely guaranteed to be dirt at some point between today, and 40-to-60 years from now, so why waste time? Get cracking on that project. Tell those who you’re sweet on that you are. Snuggle the shit out of your fuzzy buddy. Regret breeds resentment, breeds paralyzation, and with the world slowly circling the bowl anyway, as colonization, and capitalism’s big dumb corpsie sausage fingers squarely position themselves on the flush activator, I don’t see how any of us have anything to lose.
It isn't anything new but is good to hear now and then.
DC has a good one up and I'll be honest, I never read the Lorax, never really like the Seuss books ever, as a kid or now. Perhaps because I was already reading big books while people were flipping through picture books? Dunno. Aware of it? yes, the movie? sure.
Def more of a Hayduke fan than any of the ones mentioned there. Maybe add in the Tom Brown, Tracker element of influence.
Moving through the list there's the whole falling down.
I've eaten shit a good pile of times lately, kind of shockingly not at 24HOGG. Lots of people did eat shit but I guess if you're riding so far below your limits to pace yourself to last, well you're never near your limits. But there is also the luck and instinct side so not going slow isn't always a safe place to be. Plenty of people I know have eaten shit and been busted up crashing going slow.
I found this to be surprisingly funny:
Close in on the end of mine. Looking back at these last 7 years. What has happened in them and how I got to where I am today and that i'm about to embark on my 8th cycle. Sure it sounds pretty flaky and weird and shit but, there are more cyclical rhythms than just the sun and moon.
https://tommonte.com/the-7-year-cycles-of-life/
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I still believe that much of the reason people in cycling complain of sleep problems is hunger. It's just nature. If you are hungry, you'll wake up, because you should be looking for food. If your belly is full you'll sleep like a fat old cat. That said, the "fall asleep at 8pm, wake up at 2am" thing is almost s.o.p. for me most of the time. I get tired again right around 4:30a, when it's almost time to get up. That said, if I do manage to sleep in until 7, I feel like I wasted half the day.
Turning 50 is tough. My observation in myself and other amateur bike racers is the early 50's offer the most dramatic declines in ability. There are outliers but in the late forties, most rider seem to at least be able to have good endurance, and keep up firm training schedules. 51-55 is when I started to feel like training didn't work the way it used to. I've observed it in others too. Guys a few years older than me, who always owned me in the TT's and races, suddenly became beatable. It's one reason why I think the 50-60 60+ age brackets (adopted right around when I turned 55) are bad compared to 45-54 and 55+. Those match up better with the aging process. But now that I'm 60 I hope they don't change it back, but I see it happening already. Those of us in the 1961-62 birth years have been in the wrong end of our age group for 10 years. What's another 5?
After I stopped drinking yeah intially the sleeplessness was not eating enough.
Lately I can def get better sleep if i have a snack before bed. With a few exceptions I've been sleeping pretty well.
But the challenge is going 40 hours w/o sleep or having to wake up at 4am a couple times a week when you want to wake up at 6 puts a dent in the rest that is tough to recover from.
I think i explained it poorly. But pointing out that over the last 10 days I didn't sleep for 40 hours and then only got 4 hours of sleep a few days later, it has been difficult to catch back up.
I've been feeling better since cutting back on coffee - and I know that if I can cut back further I'll have a better handle on being rested.
Well if cross season happens this year, you'll have to get up an hour earlier to make those 9:30am starts... It is barbaric.
well so far i've only signed up for Beverly and that's in the afternoon...
and lots of the singlespeed stuff is late in the day...
but yeah we'll see if CX happens... Lambda is getting a foothold and I don't want that shit
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