The Tour is over. And yes I ignored it for a while then, like ever year, i got sucked into it. Beehive has talked about it and those sports science guys too. I'm not going to add much other than to say it was sort of exciting, kind of.
That said - O M F G - did you see Cavendish's sprint? Mother of Nature he's impressive. That and going into the Bordeaux win (friday) he was sick and not feeling well, and he still destroyed everyone. A little less bad luck and he would have been in green on the Champs.
The Best Bike Blog Ever put a FB status up this morning that reads: "The Tour is over. Cyclocross pre-season officially starts today."
Yes. Yes it does.
I've been bashing myself around a bit, feeling that overwhelmed crushing feeling of helplessness, wondering how I'm going to get the rust bucket race wagon running again. Not really how, more about when. When? It didn't happen this weekend. Next weekend? Maybe? I hope so. It is going to be a two weekend job unless I get it apart one weekend and then order the parts and take a day off from work mid week to get it put back together. Mentally that's sort of what is holding me back a bit. Maybe that and not racing much at all since Purgatory. When was that anyway? A month ago? Yikes.
I guess this is my rest period. The lull before starting to ramp it up for cyclocross. Unintentional. But one none the less. It didn't help that by Friday last week I was seriously thinking about going back on the juice. The roasted bean juice. I've been doing well to hold the weight pretty constant in the 205-208 range for the last couple months, but no matter what I can't seem to drop that last little bit (no matter how I tweak the diet/caloric intake) I think my body is saying, "look dude, you're not small, you aren't skinny or 22 anymore, deal with it." Some how I keep thinking coffee might bring me just under 200 again. But I'm still not sure I want to give up the performance benefit, or be dependent on a daily cup or pot of it.
So at any rate. Like Joe Biker said over on FB, the tour is over, time to focus on CX. Time to finish digesting the latest issue (#9 - which you need to subscribe to the whole thing, send in some cash, get your own copy) of cyclocross magazine. Two of the best reads, hands down, are the interviews with the two guys who will be wearing the stars and bars in New England this season. Jonny and Kevin. Some damn good quotes coming out of Jonny's. His interview is like his riding style. Power and no apologies.
Oh and of course what comes on Pandora RIGHT NOW? "The Sick Note" sung by The Dubliners. Okay so i won't go through it all again, but no matter how many times I hear this tune, it still cracks me up.
"Well, I lay there groaning on the ground, I thougth I'd passed the worst,
when the barrel hit the pully-wheel and then the bottom burst.
Well, a shower of bricks rained down on me, I hadn't got a hope
as I lay there moaning on the ground, I let go of the bloody rope.
The barrel than being heavier, it started down once more,
and landed right across me, as I lay upon the floor.
Well, it broke three ribs and my left arm and I can only say
that I hope you'll understand why Paddy's not a work today."
Okay - well i didn't post the whole lyrics this time.
Final comment about the issues. The shot by Larry Rosa that they used on the two page spread to start the "Meet the Champs" section is really flat out my favorite memory of the Nationals course.
Railing through there in the 35+ race with everyone standing around yelling and laughing and screaming. making a successful evasion of a dude who ate shit right at the fold (in the mag the top line) made the crowd erupt for me. It was awesome hearing people cheering for you specifically. Then for the Clydesdale race that was packed even tighter with more people yelling, and in the dark you couldn't see past the first two rows but people were packed tight trying to offer up money and beer for the racers flying past. In the dark it was crazy and even more intense.
Okay. Just focusing on that for a minute, well Fahk I'm fired up and ready to go.
Time to sit down with my Coach and see what the hell he has in store for me next year. Get it planned out. I have the sheets from last year. He's probably going to do something similar this year.
Holy crap. How the hell have I not heard about The Tossers? I'm embarrassed to say I'm sure I've heard their music before but damn how can I not have any of their albums? I think I may have just found this seasons interval tracks, although I'm sure I'm going to have to use Death Magnetic for the longer intervals. These guys are awesome... fuuuuug.
Anyway - time to get going... cyclocross will be here sooner than later!
Monday, July 26, 2010
Friday, July 23, 2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
so yall have heard about "Chain gate"
Yeah? Well as soon as I saw/heard that Andy dropped his chain I immediately thought of this post.
Ryan Kelly vs Andy Schleck. Poor Andy. It is like Saxobank asked Results Boy to be a mechanic for a day or something.
Ryan Kelly vs Andy Schleck. Poor Andy. It is like Saxobank asked Results Boy to be a mechanic for a day or something.
sorry
the week leading up to and coming back from are always insane for me. When you are THE one person and you go away, even for a day or two, things back up. My boss can sometimes step in and help with some stuff but there is a lot that just waits for me to return.
And man did I get ambushed when I came back. Monday morning rolled along great in the office. I got caught up (or so I thought) while watching a bit of the tour, it was great. I thought things were different. The email looked pretty clean.
Then on unread message in the middle of listserver emails and daily work emails and the like of stuff I kinda of skim over had me take a double check. And shit wouldn't you know it, there's a whole mess of critical to deal with.
Still working on sorting most of that out, but it is lunch time and I'm still hungry, no food left and well maybe this will distract me enough until the next problem comes up and I get busy again.
Didn't get to finish that thought. Never ending. And of course give it three weeks and it will be quiet and manageable again.
When I've had a moment to watch the tour while dealing with stuff here at the desk i've been lucky enough to get a Eurosport feed. English commentary that doesn't suck. Dudes who know who ever rider is and who don't pander to the whims of VS and their ratings. Commentary that is worth listening to and no stupid filler "interviews" or "insider" crap. I guess I've been watching the tour for too long. I just want to see the racing and get some good solid commentary. thanks to Cyclingfans.com I can. And it is pretty cool.
I know i'm all backed up on stories. The new car, the old car, vacation, the driving... Just not feeling it or finding the time to do it. Crazy tired since getting back.
After driving home i was too wired to fall asleep for a while and I've just been behind the sleep ball since.
Tuesday though I managed to get out for the smack down ride.
And wow it was amazing. Keith Kelly rolls up and everyone sort of went "oh shit" at the same time.
Total brutal pace setting. But fortunately I didn't have total shit legs. Got gapped on Austin, but not by much compared to my normal standards. Got gapped a bit bigger on the next one but was able to keep everyone in visual range. Tourletot also same thing, gapped when Keith set a brutal pace following Turdowski's attack at the bottom. But after that I was attacking the crap out of the pace. freaking fun.
And brutally hard. Maybe all that riding down there did something.
So how do you have a successful vacation and get faster?
Start drinking beer at about 4pm or so, get to bed around 10-11pm wake up at 4:45. Get on the bike after drinking some iced coffee for 3 hours in the heat and humidity famous down in the south. Making sure that the last 10 miles are easy but borderline bonkish. Rinse off, swim in the pool for 15 minutes until the core temp goes down, make a bit scallop, shrimp, avocado, mushroom egg scramble. Watch the tour with your feet elevated for an hour, head to the beach and body surf and float around in the water for 2 hours, eat a big lunch, hang out, start drinking beer again and repeat 3 days in a row.
Monday after a couple days off my legs felt awesome on the commute. Tuesday not as good but still good enough to develop some power and have fun on the ride.
Yesterday? Legs were f'n HOSED. didn't help that I didn't sleep much tuesday night after the ride. Too cranked up. But could have been worse, could have been like Turdowski and had my legs cramp solid enough to cause damage that night.
Working Mans is going on now. I'd love to go again, the year I went they canceled the points race, but not after I drove all the way there in the deluge.
Bikeworks TT is tonight, one of the last ones too. And this is the first year in a LONG time that I haven't been out to one. Kind of crazy.
Schedules are just different this summer.
rumor has it that MILF is web logging again.
Rosey's still kicking out great posts.
Maybe big news coming soon about the cx season.
I finally had a chance to crack the plastic on my Cyclocross Magazine. Can't wait to get a bit more into it. I kind of like the idea of using the Rapid Rise der for CX, almost kind of makes sense. If i wasn't so freaking old and used to the way things work I might try it out. But then my bike gear is all probably way too close to the end of the bathtub. Won't be too long before everything falls apart at once. I just hope I can get the car back into being ready for draggin me and my shit to CX races this fall before it all comes apart.
Just before we went on vacation the girls and I were all measuring up to see how much they've grown in the last couple months (alot) and I decided maybe I should see how tall I really am. In other words: "How much have I shrunk?"
How much? Well lets just say I'm not 6'6" anymore. Barely 6'5" and just that by a slim margin. With someone else measuring they might find me just under 6'5"...
Oh yeah - after tuesday's crazy power ride? Attacking left and right. Well we get to the base of the climb over 6/10 on Atwells heading home. Turdowski and Kirk are up ahead a bit so I jump to bridge the gap with Nelson on my wheel:
BANG clink clink clink clink
fuuuuuuuuuuhk.
Busted spoke on my "race" rear wheel. Awesome. But it isn't rubbing on the chain stay so I ride it home no problem.
But another broken spoke. Seriously? I guess it makes sense - and it does indicate i'm hitting the end of the bathtub. At least I've got spokes for this wheel. Although I'm probably going to disassemble it to see how the rim looks w/o tension. Just not sure when. I've got the Bontrager Race that needs to be converted to a CX machine for my oldest. The rest of the stuff needs to be put together from the trip over vacation. And the car is still not drivable. Too much stuff to do. Need a vacation day just to spend time at home working on stuff.
Can't really start working on the car until my finger heals up from being opened on the chainrings of my wife's bike on monday when the over tightened crank bolt loosened suddenly and the extra short crankbolt wrench send my finger into the teeth. pretty solidly lacerated. Held together with proxi-strips.
vacation was nice - totally didn't think about trying to get the car working again or the state of the bike room and the various bike bits of stuff that need attention.
that and Alan went and opened registration for Catamount CX weekend already. SERIOUSLY? It is F'N JULY!!!! No i haven't registered yet.
I don't even know when I'm racing on the road next, or if I am, much less thought about starting the CX program yet. Ugh. But I guess I should. Carl Crash Ring has started running already, and well, I can't count on him crashing every race so I might have to finish in front of him on legs alone.
I wonder if this has been rambling enough to throw off anyone other than G-ride...
And man did I get ambushed when I came back. Monday morning rolled along great in the office. I got caught up (or so I thought) while watching a bit of the tour, it was great. I thought things were different. The email looked pretty clean.
Then on unread message in the middle of listserver emails and daily work emails and the like of stuff I kinda of skim over had me take a double check. And shit wouldn't you know it, there's a whole mess of critical to deal with.
Still working on sorting most of that out, but it is lunch time and I'm still hungry, no food left and well maybe this will distract me enough until the next problem comes up and I get busy again.
Didn't get to finish that thought. Never ending. And of course give it three weeks and it will be quiet and manageable again.
When I've had a moment to watch the tour while dealing with stuff here at the desk i've been lucky enough to get a Eurosport feed. English commentary that doesn't suck. Dudes who know who ever rider is and who don't pander to the whims of VS and their ratings. Commentary that is worth listening to and no stupid filler "interviews" or "insider" crap. I guess I've been watching the tour for too long. I just want to see the racing and get some good solid commentary. thanks to Cyclingfans.com I can. And it is pretty cool.
I know i'm all backed up on stories. The new car, the old car, vacation, the driving... Just not feeling it or finding the time to do it. Crazy tired since getting back.
After driving home i was too wired to fall asleep for a while and I've just been behind the sleep ball since.
Tuesday though I managed to get out for the smack down ride.
And wow it was amazing. Keith Kelly rolls up and everyone sort of went "oh shit" at the same time.
Total brutal pace setting. But fortunately I didn't have total shit legs. Got gapped on Austin, but not by much compared to my normal standards. Got gapped a bit bigger on the next one but was able to keep everyone in visual range. Tourletot also same thing, gapped when Keith set a brutal pace following Turdowski's attack at the bottom. But after that I was attacking the crap out of the pace. freaking fun.
And brutally hard. Maybe all that riding down there did something.
So how do you have a successful vacation and get faster?
Start drinking beer at about 4pm or so, get to bed around 10-11pm wake up at 4:45. Get on the bike after drinking some iced coffee for 3 hours in the heat and humidity famous down in the south. Making sure that the last 10 miles are easy but borderline bonkish. Rinse off, swim in the pool for 15 minutes until the core temp goes down, make a bit scallop, shrimp, avocado, mushroom egg scramble. Watch the tour with your feet elevated for an hour, head to the beach and body surf and float around in the water for 2 hours, eat a big lunch, hang out, start drinking beer again and repeat 3 days in a row.
Monday after a couple days off my legs felt awesome on the commute. Tuesday not as good but still good enough to develop some power and have fun on the ride.
Yesterday? Legs were f'n HOSED. didn't help that I didn't sleep much tuesday night after the ride. Too cranked up. But could have been worse, could have been like Turdowski and had my legs cramp solid enough to cause damage that night.
Working Mans is going on now. I'd love to go again, the year I went they canceled the points race, but not after I drove all the way there in the deluge.
Bikeworks TT is tonight, one of the last ones too. And this is the first year in a LONG time that I haven't been out to one. Kind of crazy.
Schedules are just different this summer.
rumor has it that MILF is web logging again.
Rosey's still kicking out great posts.
Maybe big news coming soon about the cx season.
I finally had a chance to crack the plastic on my Cyclocross Magazine. Can't wait to get a bit more into it. I kind of like the idea of using the Rapid Rise der for CX, almost kind of makes sense. If i wasn't so freaking old and used to the way things work I might try it out. But then my bike gear is all probably way too close to the end of the bathtub. Won't be too long before everything falls apart at once. I just hope I can get the car back into being ready for draggin me and my shit to CX races this fall before it all comes apart.
Just before we went on vacation the girls and I were all measuring up to see how much they've grown in the last couple months (alot) and I decided maybe I should see how tall I really am. In other words: "How much have I shrunk?"
How much? Well lets just say I'm not 6'6" anymore. Barely 6'5" and just that by a slim margin. With someone else measuring they might find me just under 6'5"...
Oh yeah - after tuesday's crazy power ride? Attacking left and right. Well we get to the base of the climb over 6/10 on Atwells heading home. Turdowski and Kirk are up ahead a bit so I jump to bridge the gap with Nelson on my wheel:
BANG clink clink clink clink
fuuuuuuuuuuhk.
Busted spoke on my "race" rear wheel. Awesome. But it isn't rubbing on the chain stay so I ride it home no problem.
But another broken spoke. Seriously? I guess it makes sense - and it does indicate i'm hitting the end of the bathtub. At least I've got spokes for this wheel. Although I'm probably going to disassemble it to see how the rim looks w/o tension. Just not sure when. I've got the Bontrager Race that needs to be converted to a CX machine for my oldest. The rest of the stuff needs to be put together from the trip over vacation. And the car is still not drivable. Too much stuff to do. Need a vacation day just to spend time at home working on stuff.
Can't really start working on the car until my finger heals up from being opened on the chainrings of my wife's bike on monday when the over tightened crank bolt loosened suddenly and the extra short crankbolt wrench send my finger into the teeth. pretty solidly lacerated. Held together with proxi-strips.
vacation was nice - totally didn't think about trying to get the car working again or the state of the bike room and the various bike bits of stuff that need attention.
that and Alan went and opened registration for Catamount CX weekend already. SERIOUSLY? It is F'N JULY!!!! No i haven't registered yet.
I don't even know when I'm racing on the road next, or if I am, much less thought about starting the CX program yet. Ugh. But I guess I should. Carl Crash Ring has started running already, and well, I can't count on him crashing every race so I might have to finish in front of him on legs alone.
I wonder if this has been rambling enough to throw off anyone other than G-ride...
Friday, July 16, 2010
for G-ride
this one is for jerry - yes - it is a stealth shot but to show you there are crazy tan skinny women populating this place in bikinis... saddly they are outnumbered by the young women on the beach in a bikini sporting a solid beer/HFCS gut.
Surf... good body boarding surf
Sunset... down near Bodie Lighthouse
Brew Thru! Ever want to drive through a shack with two rows of coolers on each side and have someone hand you over priced beer and take your money while you never have to leave your car?
Okay some ride shots....
The long ass drag from the finish of the 5:30 crew's ride. 14.5 miles of this.
The mellow slowish group on thurs (17-25mph vs 22-30mph of wed and fri). Snapped this just after making the turn around and joining them. Yeah it is still too dark to use the camera well enough to get a good shot.
The mellow slowish group on thurs (17-25mph vs 22-30mph of wed and fri). Snapped this just after making the turn around and joining them. Yeah it is still too dark to use the camera well enough to get a good shot.
coming around
hey what do you know, no Major Kong reference after this morning's ride.
Left the place here at 5:15 and TT'd for about 9-10 miles and tagged onto the back of the group heading south. They were drilling it today, unlike yesterday.
Side note, I tossed my Blaze 2 watt headlight and the Blinky 3H in the bag on a whim. Not sure why, wasn't planning on riding in the dark, it is July. Glad I brought them. Leaving the place at 5:15 with cloud cover is really leaving in the dark. Very Dark. Got light enough by the time I met up with the group at 5:50am that I had switched over to superflash mode on the front.
They wound it up for the sprint line and I just hung on. Not as many warning bells from the engine room. Not a bad sign.
Mark was there as were a good number of guys. 2x as many as yesterday. After we crossed 158 word went out that some of the group was going to do hill repeats. Hills? Yeah, the only hill, the Memorial. Kitty Hawk Memorial. A big tall hill with a monument on top. three of four different routes up it with varying pitches. Okay so it isn't really much of a hill, but that didn't lessen the pain of hanging with Mark up it. But it wasn't so bad.
4 of us did the hill and the rest headed off for the regular ride.
By the time we hit 158/beach Road (the one road coming in off the main land) i'd been dangling and at the limit for 30 minutes following the hill repeats. And it was great.
Two of the guys pealed off at that point and it was Mark and a guy from Raleigh, NC and we were given the "demystification" of the roads north of the Food Lion. Not nearly as confusing as it was the last two days.
The other two guys tagged along on my return for about 3 miles, but then I was left to ride the most boring 12 miles back to the house. Flat. Straight, i'm talking michigan straight. And windy. head/cross wind. the last mile and a half
took
for
ever
ugh
dead legs, sore feat, achy back...
it was brilliant.
The lack of any calories when i woke up and only having two bottles of sports drink in the bottles for the ride kind of hit me at the end. Not really bonky but man it was close.
Getting back and rinsing off and hopping in the pool is nice. The pool is around 70-75 degrees, not cold but cool enough to really feel nice and to help cool down a bit. The temps aren't so bad that early but the humidity is still in the 80%+ range and temps are just under 80 degrees, and my kit is 100% saturated with sweat before I even met up with the other guys.
But it was a great ride. Good intensity, legs seem to be coming around from the abysmal performance on Wed.
we'll see what the rest of the day winds up like, probably not going to have 2 hours of body boarding... but we'll see, maybe we'll climb the Hatteras Lighthouse...
heddwch
G
Left the place here at 5:15 and TT'd for about 9-10 miles and tagged onto the back of the group heading south. They were drilling it today, unlike yesterday.
Side note, I tossed my Blaze 2 watt headlight and the Blinky 3H in the bag on a whim. Not sure why, wasn't planning on riding in the dark, it is July. Glad I brought them. Leaving the place at 5:15 with cloud cover is really leaving in the dark. Very Dark. Got light enough by the time I met up with the group at 5:50am that I had switched over to superflash mode on the front.
They wound it up for the sprint line and I just hung on. Not as many warning bells from the engine room. Not a bad sign.
Mark was there as were a good number of guys. 2x as many as yesterday. After we crossed 158 word went out that some of the group was going to do hill repeats. Hills? Yeah, the only hill, the Memorial. Kitty Hawk Memorial. A big tall hill with a monument on top. three of four different routes up it with varying pitches. Okay so it isn't really much of a hill, but that didn't lessen the pain of hanging with Mark up it. But it wasn't so bad.
4 of us did the hill and the rest headed off for the regular ride.
By the time we hit 158/beach Road (the one road coming in off the main land) i'd been dangling and at the limit for 30 minutes following the hill repeats. And it was great.
Two of the guys pealed off at that point and it was Mark and a guy from Raleigh, NC and we were given the "demystification" of the roads north of the Food Lion. Not nearly as confusing as it was the last two days.
The other two guys tagged along on my return for about 3 miles, but then I was left to ride the most boring 12 miles back to the house. Flat. Straight, i'm talking michigan straight. And windy. head/cross wind. the last mile and a half
took
for
ever
ugh
dead legs, sore feat, achy back...
it was brilliant.
The lack of any calories when i woke up and only having two bottles of sports drink in the bottles for the ride kind of hit me at the end. Not really bonky but man it was close.
Getting back and rinsing off and hopping in the pool is nice. The pool is around 70-75 degrees, not cold but cool enough to really feel nice and to help cool down a bit. The temps aren't so bad that early but the humidity is still in the 80%+ range and temps are just under 80 degrees, and my kit is 100% saturated with sweat before I even met up with the other guys.
But it was a great ride. Good intensity, legs seem to be coming around from the abysmal performance on Wed.
we'll see what the rest of the day winds up like, probably not going to have 2 hours of body boarding... but we'll see, maybe we'll climb the Hatteras Lighthouse...
heddwch
G
Thursday, July 15, 2010
"Dropped like Major Kong"
That's the new one...
No more Omaha. Sorry Thom, but I've been getting dropped so much I've over used the getting shelled like Omaha beach.
No more Omaha. Sorry Thom, but I've been getting dropped so much I've over used the getting shelled like Omaha beach.
Opposite day?
Or did the Allies finally storm the beach w/o getting shelled?
Headed up this morning. Instead of hopping in the vehicle with the bike and driving to the start I just left this rental place and headed north on the Beach Road to meet with the group as they were headed south.
Tagged on about a mile before the first sprint and after the neutral section, and after riding pretty hard for about 8-10 miles. Perfect.
Hopped on (snapped a shot or two- i may get them uploaded sooner than later) and off we went.
Mark and Chip were absent but the pace wasn't so much slower leading into the sprint. BUT it didn't go crazy on the bike path. And I didn't get shelled. In fact I felt pretty damn good.
Smaller group, and yes a slower group but it wasn't too slow, just slow enough that I was never in trouble. And it was nice. Esp considering the extra 20 or so miles adding on top of the reported 30 mile ride.
The final 14 miles straight south down the beach road was monotonous and not a whole lot of fun, so wanted to just be there already.
Got pretty dirty with all the run off from the rain riding through the development just north of the food lion, lots of mud on the roads. Had to rinse the bike off.
Yes, had I known I was going to be finding a group to ride will that had a schedule that worked with the family plans, I would have brought different tires, Durano Plus or even the Schwalbe DDs in the 25c size. But I didn't. Today it didn't matter. I had enough to go on. So maybe it wasn't the tires yesterday but word this morning was that when Chip and Mark got onto Wood road a trucked passed them at 35mph and they chased it down for a couple miles, catching and drafting it up to the stop light.
Maybe the warm up, maybe a better night sleep, slower guys on the ride, who knows. It was great though.
Followed it up with a 3 egg scramble with bratwurst, shrimp, scallops, serrano pepper, and cheese.
It was gooooood.
Lunch was a nice trio of tacos stuffed with romaine lettuce, plain yogurt (hawthorn valley), extra sharp wisc cheddar, garlic, serrano, tomato, avocado, shrimp and grouper fillets.
Time for a nap.
This whole waking up and going for a ride at 5:15am is kind of exhausting. Or maybe it was the 2 hours of body boarding catching some decent waves. The water was about 65 degrees, kind of cool. Actually cold. But it felt good with the heavy legs.
I may not have brought the best bike to hang with the fastest guys down here but it is fast enough for me right now.
heddwch
Headed up this morning. Instead of hopping in the vehicle with the bike and driving to the start I just left this rental place and headed north on the Beach Road to meet with the group as they were headed south.
Tagged on about a mile before the first sprint and after the neutral section, and after riding pretty hard for about 8-10 miles. Perfect.
Hopped on (snapped a shot or two- i may get them uploaded sooner than later) and off we went.
Mark and Chip were absent but the pace wasn't so much slower leading into the sprint. BUT it didn't go crazy on the bike path. And I didn't get shelled. In fact I felt pretty damn good.
Smaller group, and yes a slower group but it wasn't too slow, just slow enough that I was never in trouble. And it was nice. Esp considering the extra 20 or so miles adding on top of the reported 30 mile ride.
The final 14 miles straight south down the beach road was monotonous and not a whole lot of fun, so wanted to just be there already.
Got pretty dirty with all the run off from the rain riding through the development just north of the food lion, lots of mud on the roads. Had to rinse the bike off.
Yes, had I known I was going to be finding a group to ride will that had a schedule that worked with the family plans, I would have brought different tires, Durano Plus or even the Schwalbe DDs in the 25c size. But I didn't. Today it didn't matter. I had enough to go on. So maybe it wasn't the tires yesterday but word this morning was that when Chip and Mark got onto Wood road a trucked passed them at 35mph and they chased it down for a couple miles, catching and drafting it up to the stop light.
Maybe the warm up, maybe a better night sleep, slower guys on the ride, who knows. It was great though.
Followed it up with a 3 egg scramble with bratwurst, shrimp, scallops, serrano pepper, and cheese.
It was gooooood.
Lunch was a nice trio of tacos stuffed with romaine lettuce, plain yogurt (hawthorn valley), extra sharp wisc cheddar, garlic, serrano, tomato, avocado, shrimp and grouper fillets.
Time for a nap.
This whole waking up and going for a ride at 5:15am is kind of exhausting. Or maybe it was the 2 hours of body boarding catching some decent waves. The water was about 65 degrees, kind of cool. Actually cold. But it felt good with the heavy legs.
I may not have brought the best bike to hang with the fastest guys down here but it is fast enough for me right now.
heddwch
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
At the Beach... might as well be Omaha
Well it was this morning at 5:30am when I showed up for the daily ride out of the Food Lion at mile 1.
Problem is we're staying at mile 14.5 that's kind of far to ride in the morning on vacation. Hell riding at 5:30 is bad enough.
Got there in time to roll up to the group only to roll off within seconds of me putting my foot down.
"Mark give the new guy the run down of the rules and the ride."
So Mark did.
Great bunch of guys. Warm up this morning was 20mph, (normally 18). With a 20+ mph wind blowing from west to east and we headed south. Echelon it was. That is a few miles of just going, then the pace picked up.
I was good for most of it, but i was paying the price for bringing the tires I did. Yall already know Marathon Plus tires in 28 size are 740grams each. They roll like monster truck tires. IE they don't.
The second part riding with "Jay" he said he knew today was going to be really fast when a couple people showed up on their race bikes (good number of Tri dudes). Seriously. It was dark so I don't remember what they were riding but they were riding them fast and they had deep section carbon rims.
Couple of strong guys on road bikes though. I was fine for a while until we rode through some sewer overflow across the road.
With the wind I was sitting on "Mark's" wheel, right up close - i was near the end, and got sprayed, literally with shitwater. Went up my nose, all over me. (had glasses on fortunately). But then the hurl response started to kick in and it was too much.
And then they shelled Omaha beach.
I mean I got shelled like Omaha beach.
Along with another guy but the other guy wasn't shelled quite as bad and he knew where he was going. I hit an intersection and was forced to wait. A good 2/3- 3/4 of the ride was behind me. After a while of waiting I could see "Jay's" headlight winding up towards me. And then we rolled on and then waited for the rest of the B group. Yeah. I got dropped from the A group and wound up waiting. Raining sweat off me while we were sitting there. Sitting there long enough that Jay was ready to leave and give up when they appeared.
Regrouped we headed on and it wasn't so bad except the smallest dude, who happened to be riding a tri-bike w/aero bars wound up in the pace line in front of me.
So i got an AWESOME draft below my knees. But sadly that isn't very much of me. But god damn i held the pace and pulled off and wound up back behind him.
Fun.
Jay and I wound up dropping the rest of the group (it had started to rain) and just rode back to the parking lot.
Got there at 7am. ??
weird.
it felt like an hour on the bike, maybe 45 mins.
90 min? no way. I'd never have guessed it.
Good group, and according to Jay (who says he stays with the A group about 2/3rds of the time) this morning was a FAST morning. Way faster than normal. 27+ after the 'neutral.'
Another tip he gave me was to head to the bike shop (Outer Banks Cycles) and be there at 6:10. That way i can skip the drive up there and not drive to a ride.
I hate driving to bike rides. Races are different. This wasn't much different than a race though.
So yeah. I'm on vacation. Maybe the couple extra beers I had last night didn't help either. Or being woken up at midnight, can't say why, but I can say it was impossible to go to sleep for a minute or five.
Woke up way early yesterday to try and make the ride but man the lightning was intense as was the rain, and they did cancel it.
So I've been up at 3:45 (sat am) 5:15 (sun am) 7:30 (mon am) 4:45 (tues am) and 4:45 (this morning)... sleep has not been something i'm getting much of.
I'd still rather be doing more of nothing on the vacation but hey, it is what it is.
The fish market has been the source for dinner every night down here. Mahi-mahi seems to be one of the more popular options. Last night it was shrimp and scallops. Tonight we're back to Mahi-mahi with grouper instead of the previous combo of Yellow fin.
despite the lack of sleeping - things aren't nearly as bad as i had expected it to be... the vehicle and the stop at a friend's in MD on the way down is what I'm crediting to a super positive start.
I'm hoping tomorrow's ride is a bit slower.
If not, well, I hope I'm faster.
heddwch
G
Problem is we're staying at mile 14.5 that's kind of far to ride in the morning on vacation. Hell riding at 5:30 is bad enough.
Got there in time to roll up to the group only to roll off within seconds of me putting my foot down.
"Mark give the new guy the run down of the rules and the ride."
So Mark did.
Great bunch of guys. Warm up this morning was 20mph, (normally 18). With a 20+ mph wind blowing from west to east and we headed south. Echelon it was. That is a few miles of just going, then the pace picked up.
I was good for most of it, but i was paying the price for bringing the tires I did. Yall already know Marathon Plus tires in 28 size are 740grams each. They roll like monster truck tires. IE they don't.
The second part riding with "Jay" he said he knew today was going to be really fast when a couple people showed up on their race bikes (good number of Tri dudes). Seriously. It was dark so I don't remember what they were riding but they were riding them fast and they had deep section carbon rims.
Couple of strong guys on road bikes though. I was fine for a while until we rode through some sewer overflow across the road.
With the wind I was sitting on "Mark's" wheel, right up close - i was near the end, and got sprayed, literally with shitwater. Went up my nose, all over me. (had glasses on fortunately). But then the hurl response started to kick in and it was too much.
And then they shelled Omaha beach.
I mean I got shelled like Omaha beach.
Along with another guy but the other guy wasn't shelled quite as bad and he knew where he was going. I hit an intersection and was forced to wait. A good 2/3- 3/4 of the ride was behind me. After a while of waiting I could see "Jay's" headlight winding up towards me. And then we rolled on and then waited for the rest of the B group. Yeah. I got dropped from the A group and wound up waiting. Raining sweat off me while we were sitting there. Sitting there long enough that Jay was ready to leave and give up when they appeared.
Regrouped we headed on and it wasn't so bad except the smallest dude, who happened to be riding a tri-bike w/aero bars wound up in the pace line in front of me.
So i got an AWESOME draft below my knees. But sadly that isn't very much of me. But god damn i held the pace and pulled off and wound up back behind him.
Fun.
Jay and I wound up dropping the rest of the group (it had started to rain) and just rode back to the parking lot.
Got there at 7am. ??
weird.
it felt like an hour on the bike, maybe 45 mins.
90 min? no way. I'd never have guessed it.
Good group, and according to Jay (who says he stays with the A group about 2/3rds of the time) this morning was a FAST morning. Way faster than normal. 27+ after the 'neutral.'
Another tip he gave me was to head to the bike shop (Outer Banks Cycles) and be there at 6:10. That way i can skip the drive up there and not drive to a ride.
I hate driving to bike rides. Races are different. This wasn't much different than a race though.
So yeah. I'm on vacation. Maybe the couple extra beers I had last night didn't help either. Or being woken up at midnight, can't say why, but I can say it was impossible to go to sleep for a minute or five.
Woke up way early yesterday to try and make the ride but man the lightning was intense as was the rain, and they did cancel it.
So I've been up at 3:45 (sat am) 5:15 (sun am) 7:30 (mon am) 4:45 (tues am) and 4:45 (this morning)... sleep has not been something i'm getting much of.
I'd still rather be doing more of nothing on the vacation but hey, it is what it is.
The fish market has been the source for dinner every night down here. Mahi-mahi seems to be one of the more popular options. Last night it was shrimp and scallops. Tonight we're back to Mahi-mahi with grouper instead of the previous combo of Yellow fin.
despite the lack of sleeping - things aren't nearly as bad as i had expected it to be... the vehicle and the stop at a friend's in MD on the way down is what I'm crediting to a super positive start.
I'm hoping tomorrow's ride is a bit slower.
If not, well, I hope I'm faster.
heddwch
G
Friday, July 09, 2010
shattered
My arms and shoulders are pretty achy today. Bench pressing a transmission and then trying to deal with 5 bolts that were torqued down to over 90 ft-lbs (remove, install hitch, re-torque). That hitch is a heavy sumbitch. Class III ones generally are. That and trying to apply 92 ft-lbs of torque on a bolt laying on your back just kind of sucks.
So why was I putting a hitch on something? Certainly wasn't the Passat. But the transmission was the Passat's.
We've got a road trip coming up. Fingers crossed that it is not too insane. Hopefully i'll get a chance to write over the next week...
Oh and that Thule T2 hitch rack is F'n HEAVY and awkward to assemble...
So why was I putting a hitch on something? Certainly wasn't the Passat. But the transmission was the Passat's.
We've got a road trip coming up. Fingers crossed that it is not too insane. Hopefully i'll get a chance to write over the next week...
Oh and that Thule T2 hitch rack is F'n HEAVY and awkward to assemble...
Thursday, July 08, 2010
Wednesday, July 07, 2010
now i'm in pain
tears running down my face at the end of that - sides killing me from laughing.
i feel better already
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
overwhelmed
so on monday a huge weight was lifted, but tuesday it settled back in place. the enormity of what has to be done between now and friday night.
i'd take a day off of work, i've got vacation days, but well - every day is scheduled solid, like any week before you're about to be gone for a week.
yay.
Memorial service for my grandmother was today. Held at the Wellesley College Chapel. Those of you around here know, it was damn hot today. Triple digits in some places. But 92 or 102, that's way to hot to sit inside an un-air-conditioned space in a suit (not even ceiling fans) for over an hour.
This is the second Quaker memorial service/meeting i've been to in the last 3 months.
I have to say, I think they are a great way to do memorial services.
Car situation is alieviated. Well at least the primary vehicle is no longer that rusty crappy wagon of mine, that has the transmission sitting wedged because I thought i could get it out without removing the driver's side drive shaft or the passenger side flange on the transmission. And the way it is now, well I can't get either of those off without getting it un-stuck. The started blew not the throw out bearing, but the clutch is pretty close to gone and the bearing is making noise so might as well get those changed while it is apart. Except it is not a part.
Joy.
The car is on ramps, hood up with engine hanger holding the engine up (detached from motor mounts), and I can't really leave it like that while i'm out of town. AND if i want to bring bikes to this vacation destination using the new mode of transport, well i have to install the hitch and put the rack together.
Should be asleep but well, driving down from Wellesley and trying to get on 95S/128 was NOT a good idea (Parking lot). Need sleep but I can't sort out how things are going to go trying to survive the week.
feeling very overwhelmed...
i'd take a day off of work, i've got vacation days, but well - every day is scheduled solid, like any week before you're about to be gone for a week.
yay.
Memorial service for my grandmother was today. Held at the Wellesley College Chapel. Those of you around here know, it was damn hot today. Triple digits in some places. But 92 or 102, that's way to hot to sit inside an un-air-conditioned space in a suit (not even ceiling fans) for over an hour.
This is the second Quaker memorial service/meeting i've been to in the last 3 months.
I have to say, I think they are a great way to do memorial services.
Car situation is alieviated. Well at least the primary vehicle is no longer that rusty crappy wagon of mine, that has the transmission sitting wedged because I thought i could get it out without removing the driver's side drive shaft or the passenger side flange on the transmission. And the way it is now, well I can't get either of those off without getting it un-stuck. The started blew not the throw out bearing, but the clutch is pretty close to gone and the bearing is making noise so might as well get those changed while it is apart. Except it is not a part.
Joy.
The car is on ramps, hood up with engine hanger holding the engine up (detached from motor mounts), and I can't really leave it like that while i'm out of town. AND if i want to bring bikes to this vacation destination using the new mode of transport, well i have to install the hitch and put the rack together.
Should be asleep but well, driving down from Wellesley and trying to get on 95S/128 was NOT a good idea (Parking lot). Need sleep but I can't sort out how things are going to go trying to survive the week.
feeling very overwhelmed...
Friday, July 02, 2010
send some good thoughts
Our one and only old car went kablooey... well not real kablooy and I kinda know what happened (throw-out bearing or something in the clutch let go). Planning to drop the transmission tomorrow morning.
car is being towed to the house now.
Oh joy.
new car sooner than later? more than likely
anyone got a Eurovan they are looking to sell?
car is being towed to the house now.
Oh joy.
new car sooner than later? more than likely
anyone got a Eurovan they are looking to sell?
Moulton's words today
Ring so true.
In the past I've talked about those "statistics" maybe sololunchbreak can remember every one or roto rooter has a script that does something - yeah just gratuitously pulling in results boy into the mix not linking either one of those mofos just because i can, or don't have to or something.
40,000 people a year roughly dead from automobile wrecks. Most of them are self induced. Pretty much every morning around these parts you hear about some poor young idiot who flew off the road and wrapped their sort of fast car around a tree and killed themselves and sometimes a passenger or two. Dave's right, it is sad but ultimately no one gives a shit except their family. Yeah-So GeWilli - posting the obit of my grandmother then being flippant/frank and callous about death. I never did have a good sense of certain things. Obliviously naive.
Heck add in the deaths related to health, cancer for one. That book I read added to what I knew and had a "hunch" about sort of make me feel strongly that cancer is just as preventable as type 2 diabetes. No not all cancer certainly. Just as there is Type 1 there is Type 2 diabetes. I'm going to go out on a very short and sturdy limb and say at some point Cancers will be divided up the same way. Just as Type 2 is primarily tied to eating disorders (because lets face it - eating too much shitty food should be a mental disorder) most cancers dealt with in Oncology wards now are a result of how people eat. Or more specifically what they don't eat.
Preventable. Certainly we can prevent casualties in Iraq and Afgan by not being there, and yes I'm pretty convinced we shouldn't be there or if we are there certainly not fighting with weapons, but working with words.
Dave's final line is important.
Heddwch
G
In the past I've talked about those "statistics" maybe sololunchbreak can remember every one or roto rooter has a script that does something - yeah just gratuitously pulling in results boy into the mix not linking either one of those mofos just because i can, or don't have to or something.
40,000 people a year roughly dead from automobile wrecks. Most of them are self induced. Pretty much every morning around these parts you hear about some poor young idiot who flew off the road and wrapped their sort of fast car around a tree and killed themselves and sometimes a passenger or two. Dave's right, it is sad but ultimately no one gives a shit except their family. Yeah-So GeWilli - posting the obit of my grandmother then being flippant/frank and callous about death. I never did have a good sense of certain things. Obliviously naive.
Heck add in the deaths related to health, cancer for one. That book I read added to what I knew and had a "hunch" about sort of make me feel strongly that cancer is just as preventable as type 2 diabetes. No not all cancer certainly. Just as there is Type 1 there is Type 2 diabetes. I'm going to go out on a very short and sturdy limb and say at some point Cancers will be divided up the same way. Just as Type 2 is primarily tied to eating disorders (because lets face it - eating too much shitty food should be a mental disorder) most cancers dealt with in Oncology wards now are a result of how people eat. Or more specifically what they don't eat.
Preventable. Certainly we can prevent casualties in Iraq and Afgan by not being there, and yes I'm pretty convinced we shouldn't be there or if we are there certainly not fighting with weapons, but working with words.
Dave's final line is important.
"I am both proud and grateful to belong to a small section of our society who care enough about each other that we are affected by the still relatively rare event that one of us is killed"I am too. I am too.
Heddwch
G
Thursday, July 01, 2010
Hair Dresser, Personal Chef, and Chauffeur
oh and masseuse. I guess a regular old time Soigneur.
That's my current job description. Well the other than work job.
Every morning is like a stage in a Tour. I get up before everyone else, spend 15 minutes catching up online, get cleaned up and start in with it.
Breakfast needs to be made. Each of the team members have slightly different preferences for the first meal of the day. Today for example it was a couple mini-bagels with some Nutella for one, a breakfast sandwich on some pan de mie with Jarlsberg and parmigiana cheese one fried egg and two pieces of pan fried salami (brings out the flavor and removes some of the fat) for the second who will be dancing all day and an omelet with the afore mentioned cheeses sheathed in a flame toasted tortilla (a two egg omelet out of my pan is exactly the same size as the 365 organic tortillas) for my wife.
Then it is an immediate switch over to packing the musette bags, i mean lunches. Care has to be made to keep a balance between desires and needs. The youngest seems to have the highest caloric demand lately and the most challenging to find a "main" focal point for the lunch. So it is a chaotic balance of getting fresh fruits in there (mostly seasonal and organic and, if possible, local but almost completely domestically sourced) and some balanced sources of other fuels. Sort of a mad packing/then checking to make sure it meets with approval. Yes I know, I shouldn't offer them a choice, but we have enough family meals where there is no choice that Lunches kind of get a pass.
Once those are all sorted it is basically time for the mechanic to check the bikes for the day. Unload them all from the bike room. Prepare the trailer, check the tires, chain and shifting on my wifes bike, address any issues (if possible) noticed on the ride home and generally get them all out and ready to go. Bottles get filled, bags get double checked and stowed in the trailer and then it is time to get kitted up into the chauffeur uniform. Today I decided to give some exposure to the CX sponsor from last season. Make sure teeth are brushed and we are out the door.
The ride in for my client and charge for the rest of the day, or at least the beginning and end of ballet intensive, essentially gets a leg warm up on the way in. Esp as we are progressing in the week and she's tired and sore from dancing all day, the ride in really for her is a way to move the legs and let some blood flow circulate and clean them out without any exertion. Which means, yes, she's mostly just dead weight on the tandem and when the wind, like today, is slightly to the left of a headwind, a wind drag as well. The trailer does a good job of being a parachute even if the wind is dead on, so it is pretty much a constant drag. There aren't many hills but the few of them that are between destinations are pretty tough. Short fortunately but 13% is still 13% even if it is only for 10-20 feet. Momentum is your friend but it isn't always available to push it up over. Heck even 5% isn't easy with this rig.
Then once we get to the destination, well time to get the hair ready. It is essentially impossible to have a ballet bun under a helmet, esp with all the bobby pins needed to hold it together.
And well. Time to be hair dresser. I'm actually getting better. If you don't know to make a bun you have to start with a pony tail. And there is a hell of a lot of hair to corral and try and make look somewhat presentable. Today it went better than previously. Got the the pony tail up, then wrapped and twisted the pony tail around the hair tie and then used a hair net thing to wrap around the ball of hair to keep the loose ends in. Then the ball has to be flattened and secured to the back of the head with bobby pins. Once it is tight and immobilized, well then we break out the hair spray. Gotta tame any flyaways and lock that bun in for the whole day.
Then I get to turn into a Microscopist for 7.5-8 hours or so before returning as Chauffeur for the trip home.
But it isn't straight home. The way home we have one extra passenger to pick up. She sits in the trailer, but today we've had a request to get the trai-a-bike to replace the trailer. Which if we have time on the way there we can do. Timing though is everything.
So after that it is time to get cleaned up and fed. Then feet up and massages. I've been using the Weleda stuff. And that's why i'm an old school soigneur, I'm not an LMT or anything, but I've got smelly oils and i can identify muscle groups that are going to be sore. Once all massaged and relaxed it is off to bed, sleep and repeat.
And yeah that's pretty much the full day. Time for training in there? Not a freaking chance. Do I care? Right now not even a tiny bit. It is great. Besides - hauling that tandem and trailer is enough muscle tension work. The hills are like heavy weight training, the rest is just static load work.
Tomorrow I think the Soigneur is making pancakes. Maybe waffles, but probably pancakes. So that's going to change the dynamic and make it important to start the day even earlier. Which i'm sure the dog will not mind.
Couple good links:
how to teach your kids to ride I agree with JLS, good points. Unfortunately it is all pretty flat withing easy pedaling distance of the house (which is nice when you're riding home from a leg ripping ride).
And mr self promotion himself talking about the new UCI rule changes over at Cyclocross magazine. Sort amazing that Myerson can put together a thought with more than 140 characters.
Oh and my favorite phrase right now:
Cheap Food = Expensive Health care (cheap as in poor quality high caloric/dollar value - not inexpensive, because obviously there is inexpensive quality food out there)
heddwch
G
That's my current job description. Well the other than work job.
Every morning is like a stage in a Tour. I get up before everyone else, spend 15 minutes catching up online, get cleaned up and start in with it.
Breakfast needs to be made. Each of the team members have slightly different preferences for the first meal of the day. Today for example it was a couple mini-bagels with some Nutella for one, a breakfast sandwich on some pan de mie with Jarlsberg and parmigiana cheese one fried egg and two pieces of pan fried salami (brings out the flavor and removes some of the fat) for the second who will be dancing all day and an omelet with the afore mentioned cheeses sheathed in a flame toasted tortilla (a two egg omelet out of my pan is exactly the same size as the 365 organic tortillas) for my wife.
Then it is an immediate switch over to packing the musette bags, i mean lunches. Care has to be made to keep a balance between desires and needs. The youngest seems to have the highest caloric demand lately and the most challenging to find a "main" focal point for the lunch. So it is a chaotic balance of getting fresh fruits in there (mostly seasonal and organic and, if possible, local but almost completely domestically sourced) and some balanced sources of other fuels. Sort of a mad packing/then checking to make sure it meets with approval. Yes I know, I shouldn't offer them a choice, but we have enough family meals where there is no choice that Lunches kind of get a pass.
Once those are all sorted it is basically time for the mechanic to check the bikes for the day. Unload them all from the bike room. Prepare the trailer, check the tires, chain and shifting on my wifes bike, address any issues (if possible) noticed on the ride home and generally get them all out and ready to go. Bottles get filled, bags get double checked and stowed in the trailer and then it is time to get kitted up into the chauffeur uniform. Today I decided to give some exposure to the CX sponsor from last season. Make sure teeth are brushed and we are out the door.
The ride in for my client and charge for the rest of the day, or at least the beginning and end of ballet intensive, essentially gets a leg warm up on the way in. Esp as we are progressing in the week and she's tired and sore from dancing all day, the ride in really for her is a way to move the legs and let some blood flow circulate and clean them out without any exertion. Which means, yes, she's mostly just dead weight on the tandem and when the wind, like today, is slightly to the left of a headwind, a wind drag as well. The trailer does a good job of being a parachute even if the wind is dead on, so it is pretty much a constant drag. There aren't many hills but the few of them that are between destinations are pretty tough. Short fortunately but 13% is still 13% even if it is only for 10-20 feet. Momentum is your friend but it isn't always available to push it up over. Heck even 5% isn't easy with this rig.
Then once we get to the destination, well time to get the hair ready. It is essentially impossible to have a ballet bun under a helmet, esp with all the bobby pins needed to hold it together.
And well. Time to be hair dresser. I'm actually getting better. If you don't know to make a bun you have to start with a pony tail. And there is a hell of a lot of hair to corral and try and make look somewhat presentable. Today it went better than previously. Got the the pony tail up, then wrapped and twisted the pony tail around the hair tie and then used a hair net thing to wrap around the ball of hair to keep the loose ends in. Then the ball has to be flattened and secured to the back of the head with bobby pins. Once it is tight and immobilized, well then we break out the hair spray. Gotta tame any flyaways and lock that bun in for the whole day.
Then I get to turn into a Microscopist for 7.5-8 hours or so before returning as Chauffeur for the trip home.
But it isn't straight home. The way home we have one extra passenger to pick up. She sits in the trailer, but today we've had a request to get the trai-a-bike to replace the trailer. Which if we have time on the way there we can do. Timing though is everything.
So after that it is time to get cleaned up and fed. Then feet up and massages. I've been using the Weleda stuff. And that's why i'm an old school soigneur, I'm not an LMT or anything, but I've got smelly oils and i can identify muscle groups that are going to be sore. Once all massaged and relaxed it is off to bed, sleep and repeat.
And yeah that's pretty much the full day. Time for training in there? Not a freaking chance. Do I care? Right now not even a tiny bit. It is great. Besides - hauling that tandem and trailer is enough muscle tension work. The hills are like heavy weight training, the rest is just static load work.
Tomorrow I think the Soigneur is making pancakes. Maybe waffles, but probably pancakes. So that's going to change the dynamic and make it important to start the day even earlier. Which i'm sure the dog will not mind.
Couple good links:
how to teach your kids to ride I agree with JLS, good points. Unfortunately it is all pretty flat withing easy pedaling distance of the house (which is nice when you're riding home from a leg ripping ride).
And mr self promotion himself talking about the new UCI rule changes over at Cyclocross magazine. Sort amazing that Myerson can put together a thought with more than 140 characters.
Oh and my favorite phrase right now:
Cheap Food = Expensive Health care (cheap as in poor quality high caloric/dollar value - not inexpensive, because obviously there is inexpensive quality food out there)
heddwch
G
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