Hmmmm
Moon Shadows are Evil
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Hmmmm
i freaking saw that! haaahahahaa!
[size=-2]you will be my friend though, right?[/size]
[size=-2]you will be my friend though, right?[/size]
Only because you are sick
As promised, I have partial put myself in a timeout since I have apparently become too toxic for most of the people on this and that is a place I do not want to be. My sarcasm does not translate at all to text and it seems silly to put emoticons on everything I write, so as of late I have bite my tongue for the most part and living by the “if you don’t have something nice to say” kind of line. Unfortunately, the same happened many years ago from working in a professional office for the past 10 years and I have reached the point here that I feel the same way. This locale used to be an escape and now is no more. By my own hand, probably, but it is what it is. Sure, I like reading, but it would seem that I cannot post about much of anything without someone taking offense, taking it the wrong way or just thinking I am a dick. My intentions are misread in just too many situations. Does this mean I will not post anymore, no. But this situation forced me to the following:
FBook
Yes, I joined. I have long searched and waited to be the first on the next big thing, but it would seem that Fbook is too powerful and squishes anything else that comes along. A small part of me died when I did, but whatever. For some reason, I felt as if there was a lot going on over there and come to find out there really isn’t that much going on. However, I am a content junkie, mainly at work and it gives me one more thing to look at instead of actually being productive when I am stuck inside all day. There has been a few things that have been worthwhile and a few things that will prove to pay dividends (Martin, where the hell are these running GPS files, WTF?), but that mainly equates to not that much “stuff”.
Riding
That why we are all here, right? The love of two wheels? So may I will just talk about that for now. I have been riding a lot and still have no interest in training, but do have a interest in going faster, which I am not sure if those two things can survive together, but that is how I feel, which is similar to how I feel about using commas. Most of my rides have been my normal rode stuff with some mtb here an there, most recently some clayton action this past Friday in which I took my trance X there to realize how incredibly dumb it was to ride a 5” bike there, but I wanted to try out gears there which turned out to only make me 0.1 mph faster than my last time there on an ss. Go figure.
http://connect.garmin.com/dashboard
In more exciting news, I have returned to dirt jumping / building a few weeks ago just in time to do some work before the stuff dries out. I can’t tell you how much I love working with a flathead and then riding the stuff you built. The bonus to all of this is that I can go there in the evenings with my son and it doesn’t impact my “normal” riding time. However, I have been getting the itch to go there in the early AM to get some building in before coming to work. My son loves going there and I have been super excited he is using his balance bike to go over anything rollable. He mainly loves just playing in the dirt, but I can get him to rake stuff out now, without making too much damage, so it is all good. As far as riding the jumps, I have already jumped a few more jumps than I did last year, but no one else is really working on the stuff, so it is slow going getting the stuff rideble and I am more concerned with getting everything packed in good right now.
My son, working a landing.
Lip fixer-up-age
So as far as road rides and training goes, I have realized that I am lazy. After my TT back to my car a few weeks back to take my wife to the hospital, I found that this was one of the first times I really put myself in the pain cave. So since then I have realized that while I push things, I pretty much never “go deep” per se’. Because I realized that, I have pushed things since then a bit more but nothing crazy. Not doing anything structured, just noting. Here is my ride from yesterday:
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/81475142
Anyways, between now and the six pack, I have a full week off the bike for vacation but will probably do something to keep the legs moving. Other than that, plan to put gears back on the EWR and take that for a few more rides to actually have more than 4 rides on the MTB before sitting on it for 6 hours. I have limited expectations for the 6 pack, obviously I want to do well, but am more looking to ride the entire 6 hours and stay strong, honestly, I have no idea what to freaking expect.
FBook
Yes, I joined. I have long searched and waited to be the first on the next big thing, but it would seem that Fbook is too powerful and squishes anything else that comes along. A small part of me died when I did, but whatever. For some reason, I felt as if there was a lot going on over there and come to find out there really isn’t that much going on. However, I am a content junkie, mainly at work and it gives me one more thing to look at instead of actually being productive when I am stuck inside all day. There has been a few things that have been worthwhile and a few things that will prove to pay dividends (Martin, where the hell are these running GPS files, WTF?), but that mainly equates to not that much “stuff”.
Riding
That why we are all here, right? The love of two wheels? So may I will just talk about that for now. I have been riding a lot and still have no interest in training, but do have a interest in going faster, which I am not sure if those two things can survive together, but that is how I feel, which is similar to how I feel about using commas. Most of my rides have been my normal rode stuff with some mtb here an there, most recently some clayton action this past Friday in which I took my trance X there to realize how incredibly dumb it was to ride a 5” bike there, but I wanted to try out gears there which turned out to only make me 0.1 mph faster than my last time there on an ss. Go figure.
http://connect.garmin.com/dashboard
In more exciting news, I have returned to dirt jumping / building a few weeks ago just in time to do some work before the stuff dries out. I can’t tell you how much I love working with a flathead and then riding the stuff you built. The bonus to all of this is that I can go there in the evenings with my son and it doesn’t impact my “normal” riding time. However, I have been getting the itch to go there in the early AM to get some building in before coming to work. My son loves going there and I have been super excited he is using his balance bike to go over anything rollable. He mainly loves just playing in the dirt, but I can get him to rake stuff out now, without making too much damage, so it is all good. As far as riding the jumps, I have already jumped a few more jumps than I did last year, but no one else is really working on the stuff, so it is slow going getting the stuff rideble and I am more concerned with getting everything packed in good right now.
My son, working a landing.
Lip fixer-up-age
So as far as road rides and training goes, I have realized that I am lazy. After my TT back to my car a few weeks back to take my wife to the hospital, I found that this was one of the first times I really put myself in the pain cave. So since then I have realized that while I push things, I pretty much never “go deep” per se’. Because I realized that, I have pushed things since then a bit more but nothing crazy. Not doing anything structured, just noting. Here is my ride from yesterday:
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/81475142
Anyways, between now and the six pack, I have a full week off the bike for vacation but will probably do something to keep the legs moving. Other than that, plan to put gears back on the EWR and take that for a few more rides to actually have more than 4 rides on the MTB before sitting on it for 6 hours. I have limited expectations for the 6 pack, obviously I want to do well, but am more looking to ride the entire 6 hours and stay strong, honestly, I have no idea what to freaking expect.
Pearl
THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING
soulchild
Well-Known Member
this deserved it's own quote :rofl:
I don't think you are the only one but even still - such is the nature of the blog-o-sphere... it's tough without knowing the personality of who you're reading... I've met you so I know how to read you (usually)...
very interesting point... I was just talking with a couple of the guys about this very thing... I've been on faster rides that kicked my ass last year where I had to push it and so on... but with only 2.5 races under my belt it makes me wonder if I've ever even come close to that threshold...
last year I ran Ringwood for 1 lap... big deal I didn't know what I was doing and the Cat 3 class was a cluster fcuk... no way to tell anything from that other than stay up front if I do another Cat 3 race... did Fair Hill Cat2 a few weeks back and popped about 3/4 of the way through lap 2... this was not muscle fatigue but was winded and having trouble getting a second wind so I just backed it down... I'll chalk that up to conditioning... SSAP doesn't count because I only really got 4/5 of a lap in but felt good...
I have been thinking about this and I remember as a runner... there comes a point when you think you've hit the wall but you actually haven't... you could push through and and have a lot more left and I remember that feeling vividly... I don't know if it's the same or not with racing but I definitely don't feel as though I've pushed myself to that limit...
either way... you're still a
hahaha j/k 😀
Dusty the Whale
Mr.Chainsaw
If I had $1 for every time Vreeland called me a name or said my mom was an inanimate object id be rich
Thankee, Sai
As work has ramped up over the past couple of months, my posting in this thread took a hit and getting started back always seems like a chore. Even though I usually don’t post unless I have some content in the form of pictures and or some content to offset the lack of multimedia, I plan to start posting on a more regular basis. I also get discouraged with some of the haters on the site, of which there may only be 1 actual hater and a bunch of dislikers, of which none are probably dislikers at all, especially in real life, but it is nice to know that the unhaters are around and the handful of haters or dislikers can just eat it. Or maybe there is no hater, dislikers or unhaters, but just a bunch of "ers" but in any case, it motivates me to post when I see people read and some comment, which is better than what one can ask for. So for that, I thank the people that read and hope I can still offer some good content from a different perspective of the racer ss rigid 29er faction. I don’t have enough content or interesting stuff for daily postage, but I will do my best.
Speaking of rigid 29ers, I did ride my road bike today at lunch. Tuesday is my drive-in day since I pick my son up and while I floated the thought of picking him up in the bike trailer today, I canned that idea for some lunchtime pavement slaying and a slaying I did where slaying is defined by wearing a bright green and royal blue kit (sans uber ghey shoe covers) and riding with daisies up my ass. I have not been riding at lunch much lately as I find it much more enjoyable to ride in the early morning over worrying about what the clock-watching busy bodies are doing back at the office. Today I didn’t care about them much, so lunchtime TT loop it was. Winds out of the S/SW proved for a fast first half and semi-fast second half and some full on winds towards the end. Good average getting into Princeton, which was probably due to the wind. Held 22 mph for the first 10 miles and started dropping after that as I turned south. Saw 2 women riders just before heading into the wind, which gave me alittle boost as girlies in spandex is just fine by me, which is probably how pearl got so fast since he has to chase Mandi around all the time. The headwind didn’t seem so bad but the average was dropping slowly over the second half of the ride. Pushed it out to keep it at 21.3 and 56:39, which is 2 seconds slower than my fastest time on this loop last july. Wind or no wind, I will take it, not sure if these means progress, but at least it doesn’t mean I am getting worse, which is where one can only hope to be.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/81743175
Speaking of riding in, which gas prices going up and up and UP, it pains we to drive to work when I could ride in for free. We all know damn well that riding is by no means free, but you know what I mean. Like last week when I rode clayton, I didn’t ride in that day and I couldn’t stop thinking about it. I isn’t not an environmental activist or nothing, but when you start hitting me in the wallet, I take notice. Tuesday may come a day I ride dirt in the morning since I have to drive in anyways.
For tonight, depending on how some things play out, should have some time at the trails (dirt jumps) these evening. Maybe with my son, maybe not, either way, looking forward to it.
As work has ramped up over the past couple of months, my posting in this thread took a hit and getting started back always seems like a chore. Even though I usually don’t post unless I have some content in the form of pictures and or some content to offset the lack of multimedia, I plan to start posting on a more regular basis. I also get discouraged with some of the haters on the site, of which there may only be 1 actual hater and a bunch of dislikers, of which none are probably dislikers at all, especially in real life, but it is nice to know that the unhaters are around and the handful of haters or dislikers can just eat it. Or maybe there is no hater, dislikers or unhaters, but just a bunch of "ers" but in any case, it motivates me to post when I see people read and some comment, which is better than what one can ask for. So for that, I thank the people that read and hope I can still offer some good content from a different perspective of the racer ss rigid 29er faction. I don’t have enough content or interesting stuff for daily postage, but I will do my best.
Speaking of rigid 29ers, I did ride my road bike today at lunch. Tuesday is my drive-in day since I pick my son up and while I floated the thought of picking him up in the bike trailer today, I canned that idea for some lunchtime pavement slaying and a slaying I did where slaying is defined by wearing a bright green and royal blue kit (sans uber ghey shoe covers) and riding with daisies up my ass. I have not been riding at lunch much lately as I find it much more enjoyable to ride in the early morning over worrying about what the clock-watching busy bodies are doing back at the office. Today I didn’t care about them much, so lunchtime TT loop it was. Winds out of the S/SW proved for a fast first half and semi-fast second half and some full on winds towards the end. Good average getting into Princeton, which was probably due to the wind. Held 22 mph for the first 10 miles and started dropping after that as I turned south. Saw 2 women riders just before heading into the wind, which gave me alittle boost as girlies in spandex is just fine by me, which is probably how pearl got so fast since he has to chase Mandi around all the time. The headwind didn’t seem so bad but the average was dropping slowly over the second half of the ride. Pushed it out to keep it at 21.3 and 56:39, which is 2 seconds slower than my fastest time on this loop last july. Wind or no wind, I will take it, not sure if these means progress, but at least it doesn’t mean I am getting worse, which is where one can only hope to be.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/81743175
Speaking of riding in, which gas prices going up and up and UP, it pains we to drive to work when I could ride in for free. We all know damn well that riding is by no means free, but you know what I mean. Like last week when I rode clayton, I didn’t ride in that day and I couldn’t stop thinking about it. I isn’t not an environmental activist or nothing, but when you start hitting me in the wallet, I take notice. Tuesday may come a day I ride dirt in the morning since I have to drive in anyways.
For tonight, depending on how some things play out, should have some time at the trails (dirt jumps) these evening. Maybe with my son, maybe not, either way, looking forward to it.
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Dusty the Whale
Mr.Chainsaw
My commute to work will be a tad shorter and a whole lot safe next month. Can't wait... I Hate this thread
I won't be doing instructional videos on dirt jumping but I will be acquiring a helmet cam in the very near future, but until that time. http://www.vimeo.com/15742123
soulchild
Well-Known Member
you shoulda posted up in the wanted section... I might sell my Contour 1080 I picked up last year... I've used it 1.5x and have all the accessories and what not...
Dr Superb
Active Member
wish i would have known that. wife just picked me up one for my bday...
damn, everytime I have posted in the wanted I get no responses....