Things happened, races were raced.
Kid wound up 5th in the country.
pretty amazing.
kid made it across the country solo, and made her way to World's selection camp on her own too. no big stress either, finally getting a handle on travel stress. Guess I was lucky to be thrown on a plane alone long before i realized how stressful it was, a 9 year old in charge of three little brothers trying to act 13, but those were the days when anyone could go to the terminal and drop you off and pick you up.
So many travel stories. Growing up crossing this country for various family reasons, by plane or car, bus, train whatever. Not unique but def out of the ordinary.
Got a ride in. Was more exciting than hoped towards the end. Raced back to the car, anyway that's not my story to tell.
It was good in the woods. Felt not terrible, not super fast but not like garbage. New shoes honestly not too bad. Fit isn't perfect and I can't tell if it is just the cheaper retention system or the design, which really are the same thing. Need to get a good long 6+hr ride in them to really check. Again I'm not sure about cleat placement. Put them where I thought I wanted them and got the angle wrong, went back and may have gone too far back.
Bit a good chunk out of my tongue eating my breakfast sandwich this morning. You'd think i'd have figured out how to chew by now.
Planning on Smackdown tonight, just because and why not and even if i get dropped I need the ride. Went to put the new cassette and chain on there, checked the chain after cleaning it. Only 0.75 worn. Fuck it, that's not that bad but it is too late for a new chain so, well, I just cleaned everything and hit the bike with some Pledge. Y'all can get your Muc-off or other high end finishing product, i'll stick with the lemon scented pledge. That shit works, looks good even on matt finished bikes.
I'd link some stuff but I couldn't find anything in my open tabs worth sharing.
Didn't ride yesterday -but drank too much coffee- wound up sleeping like shit. So of course I'm way more tired than I should be. Viscous circle. Not dragging tired but just the edge of it. Big race is in less than two months. def super fucked. but hey it is a stupid race to do solo and singlespeed. Like really dumb... but also really tough. A long, gravel race with a couple sections of single track and a fuckton of climbing. Also seriously considering FSSS for the whole thing or just part of it, I like the efficiency and comfort in the squishy form factor, it isn't the 'spirit' but you know what? Don't care.
If i'm going to make it through this conference today I need to take a quick break. Yesterday's session was good, today is too much structural stuff.
Marching through it. Lets see if talk two is more exciting to me, i mean this stuff is really cool but only at the moment, tangentially related and only potentially applicable.
Lets see what smackdown brings
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