well shit

 I just signed up for outside+ because colin pointed out there's some serious new discounts at bikereg

$50 for the year, and you get $60 of bikereg discounts/dollars.

serious no brainer to be honest.

Next year? we'll see...

Of course I had already spent $24 on my Beta subscription in August. So well I guess... I dunno less saving but hey now I can read all the velonews shit behind the paywall. 

Yesterday was insane.

Got re-aligned by the doc at 8am so that meant up early to get everything done before taking kid to school instead of after, got to office, course work, interview discussion, training, 10 min for lunch while dealing with course, more training, more course, more interview, race home (in the car) prep for giving the interview at home....  by the time the interview was over I had been going absolutely non-stop (except for sitting in the car) for 12 hours, talking for most of it. 

And then of course I totally forgot the HRM strap in the office and realized I had a workout scheduled halfway through eating a garlicy ginger kale salad after burger and sweet potatoes...  And it was 8:15...

And then the Garmin wouldn't sync the workout, just wasn't downloading it. It finally did and I started off following based on known HR/Speed ratios and RPE and then fuck it - gave up and just pedaled for the duration of the workout. Uploaded it and realized I did TOMORROWS...  oh well. No HR bailed.

Tried to sleep, sort of slept. Kept waking up, kept rolling through shit I should have asked in the interview then also really realizing the potential for getting some help around here and well. Time change so by body kept wanting to wake up at 5am this morning.

Got in a bit early today and made it partway through the mess, got side tracked by a post Colin made on FB and didn't see the 'see more' button and didn't actually see the whole thing until I did a quick open tabs and read it here: http://untilthesnowends.blogspot.com/2021/11/give-me-your-money-so-we-can-give-you.html 

So I clicked on his link but it was a velonews one? I already had Bikereg open. Was looking at Really Rad. 

Hadn't registered for it yet. And, well, $30 off, then $30 of reg credits? Oh yeah I can burn through that all before the end of the CX season and spending an extra $50 now, to save $38.12 on this weekends reg? Yeah I just spent $110 instead of $98.12 but fuck it - that's not a terrible deal eh? And all I had to do was click on my profile, then upgrade. Done. Literally one click.

Now I have to decide if I'm putting gears on for Really Rad or leaving it singlespeed.

I'm going to be close to last anyway so it doesn't really matter, kind of thinking just leaving it with one gear and if anything putting the 20 on and moving closer to the old GeWilli SSCX gearing. I mean I could go all the way to a 17, but I think that might be a bit too much for old man me. But IIRC RRCX isn't the hilliest course and there's some straight sections and a touch harder probably is a good idea. 

can't believe I signed up for a 9am race tho. What the fuck am i thinking...  oh well... guess I better keep getting up at 5am this week.

Oh, also gotta mention that book? The new Becky Chambers one? The Wild built? Yeah. Read it.

Yes you. That's how positive an impact it made on me. Really really good lines. The book is still living in my head. The lines the ideas and the perspective.

It is good. It is also short. I might go buy a copy even, that's how much I liked it. 

BUT my Dune hold came through so I'm listening to it. Only just started it but yeah I forgot how much it is all about how the duke is gonna die non-stop at first and then all the historical bits there...  anyway it is also good. I forgot how good. I read it so long ago. Kind of just want to listen non-stop now but can't need to work.

Also suddenly even more fatigued. This week has been a lot and there is still a serious fuckton left to do. It'll be okay, maybe? At least the dogs will get me home at a regular time and I can have some forced not at work time because of them. Keeping me out of trouble. 

okay - i have an interview to prep for and some other stuff to do

writing this in fits and starts probably reads like that - sorry, not sorry - 

later

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