Now what have I gotten myself into

 Of course i finally read the tech guide for CX nats.

Guess I should maybe plan on going over one of the days to check it out before saturday and pick up my number and wristband and all that. But WHEN and with what car? Two car and three drivers is fun. 

But now I have idea.

Hmm, throwing up a random hail mary.

The idea is equipment drop off requires a wrist band. You can't get a wrist band from equipment drop off but to get the wrist band you have to go to the entrance or packet pick up and thus kind of the circular logic failing for those who aren't arriving early and might be treating Saturday as any other normal day. With miles of walking between car and race course. okay not miles but still pretty far away. Course is only open for practice for 20min at Noon. Not sure how it is going to work to get properly prepared w/o a team tent or support or a trainer or help. But at least there's time to get there early, pick up packet, go back to car get stuff get to course for pre-ride, get back to car, eat, warm up, final prep, get back to course. 

But hey, it won't be anything new or different than it might have been at Providence or worse day two of Ashville where I was literally miles from the start with the car.

And all that isn't even the point of the title. I think I want to submit a gallery proposal for an installation that isn't finished yet, a bare few samples into the whole process. BUT I do have plenty of example works to present alone with the one I have started on.

Downside? It is a lot of work to finish in the next two days with not much time to do it in, and well I should be working on that now instead of this and the above about the race and getting there and those logistics.

Would be easier if I had a car to use for the day. And while that's still an option, I'd rather not deal with that added challenge.

Okay so all that, and everything else. Oh and ice weasels. And Tires. Fucking tires. I forget what I did last year. But i'm honestly just thinking fuck it - leave the same damn ones on there. Probably the wrong ones but they are 38s and by the end of the day the course will be packed down to the point where the basically file tread will be functional. maybe Nationals will be the same too. Damn kind of wish the PDX had showed up. maybe they will.

Ugh SO MUCH.

But really not so much. It is pretty clear and approachable. Except for the mountain of everything else not mentioned.

And adding the proposal to the mix really kind of tips it into the oh shit meter. But I'm okay, just kind of overwhelmed and wondering how to get it done, as I sit here and type on the web log not getting it done.

If you haven't seen it yet, grab 5 min and watch this:

Danny at his best, it is smooth and impressive even if it doesn't always seem so.

Now I need to finish up my 'lunch' break by swapping the creaky alloy post from the Crossrip+ with a new Carbon one with offset.

Going to put off actually eating lunch until after the next meeting. Maybe I'll get through the afternoon more productively.

Amor Fati Motherfuckers

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