I showed up. Worked my butt off. We did the long route with all the weird left hand turns. I got gapped on Carpenter, wasn't too far off after pine (def dropped tho) as expected, caught back up just in time to get pummeled on Hillside. The extra miles made me suffer a bit more.
Rolled in and back.
Was good.
felt oddly okay. still not fast but also pretty okay as long as we weren't going up hill and well, what do you expect for someone as heavy as I am now.
No, i don't know. Haven't been on a scale in a long time. Fuck that, doesn't matter. Riding when I can, eating food, trying not to eat too much and trying to make sure I'm well fueled for the riding.
That's the ride report. We had well over 30 people show up, might have been over 40.
Oh and the A and B groups split after 152. I managed to make it up front at the light with Justice. We took off, got a monster gap. He sat up, I went for the state line sprint and won (uncontested) but hey a sprint win is a sprint win.
Right?
I had blocked off yesterday on my calendar. Hoping to find someone to ride all day with, someone who could push me or at least match the effort, but this lead to that and well, all I managed to do was take an extra 14 or so miles to ride in.
With that 24hr race coming up I need a couple really long rides coming up. Need to do better at actually following through with the all day thing.
June was better than April or May so at least there's that.
The knee? It really kind of sucks what I have to give up but I'm really really enjoying the return to pain free movement. I can actually kneel down and get out of a sitting on my heels squat without pushing up with my arms to take the load off the right knee. I think the change in shoes (to the next size and a wide last) is also helping quite a bit.
It isn't perfect but it is definitely feeling much much better. But these new shoes have a pretty flexi sole and that's not helping, first time I can say "oh yeah so this is why people complain about small pedals on long rides" soft.
Oh he the TdF started today I guess.
No, I'm not gonna watch it. or follow it, except passively through unavoidable sharing of people's reactions on social media. Oh and I did a velogames thing, the G+ crew started it up for Giro so fuck it - why not. Picked names I recognized, I hope they all started, maybe half the squad is sidelined for covid.
Dunno.
Life goes on and I don't feel much like writing lately. Sorry.
Had some deep thoughts, put it on a poem but not sharing that shit.
I should really get a passport so i can leave this country if i have a chance/oportunity...
Anyone wanna drag my ass around all day on the bike? Boston maybe?
Better eat lunch before it is time for the next appointment.
And yeah, shit, I need to take some time off... damnit.
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