race report or music videos

 Dunno, what will it be?

Dead scope opened up an extra bit of time. Downside is it is the SEM and I can't actually work on the rest of the imaging for the show.

Also so much to do but hey, I'm overwhelmed and still pretty tired. Physically and mentally pausing after the crazy doesn't feel much more than required.

Fruitlands CX...  you can guess. It is hilly, even when it isn't hilly. There's some good short steep punchy bits that are super rideable, even on the singlespeed with 2:1 gearing, on lap one in the rain. Lap two? also rideable but wow it hurt more and traction was going away fast, spinning tires more than I'd like. Lap 3? Hahahah Pedal up this shit in the rain? Fuck no. Not even with the mud tires (super happy to have had those). It was the worst race for singlespeed but in someways it was the best. There's no der or cassette to feel weird in the mud, all the power goes to moving forward. Downside is it requires lots of torque to move forward and I was tired. Like feeling like falling asleep on the drive there so tired. No joke. Last week was brutal. exhausted. All the reasons. 

Heart rate didn't even get up that high in the race. Because I was tired. Also probably because it was low cadence high torque shit and that's not as O2 intensive as high cadence, more fatiguing arguably. You can watch my lap speed/time get slower and slower eat lap, nice linear slope. 

Went to bed at 9:30, fell asleep by about 10, woke up to empty bladder and refill with water at 3am and 6am and more or less slept until 9am. And still woke up tired. Some how have to get on top of this sleep thing before the next race... well ideally before then. Upcoming stretch of crazy crazy shit, huh, how about that - it is pretty much non-stop until Really Rad. Awesome. 

While working on stuff this morning I hit up Youtube to see what they would throw at me.

First this 

New video from M and R

Then watched this one, hadn't ever seen it before super powerful:

In one of the rec pages there was this new one from Tom Morello

Solid (less camera dancing didn't need that IMHO)

Then well, cued this up but didn't make it past the first song:

before looking it up as a stand alone official music video:

Got a bit emotional there with that last one.

I'm tired.

I loved the racing but wish I wasn't so slow, sure, putting gears on might have helped a little but not much, needed a 38x30, gear options i have are 44x22 in singlespeed or 44x26 (only 10sp cassette I have now is 10-26). But easier gears just mean going slower. Not sure what to do at Really Rad. May go with gears just for the hell of it. Why not eh? but then why bother, still probably would wind up where I belong. Plenty of time to figure that out.

Now have to get that Fork warranty sorted out for the Top Fuel and also order the seatpost.

TOOOO MUCH TO DO - yeah, feeling overwhelmed, but getting better being at peace with just doing what I can do, it'll get done at some point. 

Damn list is getting too long though.

Guess I should cross shit off instead of put more words down here tho

amor fati motherfuckers

G