StayHydrated
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Ok I am going to reply to all of the work comments. Just because I want to.
@1sh0t1b33r - "did you get my email?" I have been known to just answer "yes" to that. And then leave it at that. I admit that in those cases I will sometimes just delete the email. I think sometimes office culture pushes us to work in a certain way and that these people feel like they are required to send an email, but deep down they want to just walk over and talk to you.
@fidodie - I am not sure how a well-oiled process is even supposed to operate. How often would you just end up interfacing with the customer, and then writing the requirements, then coding them, testing them, writing the doc, doing the demo, then training? I feel like this is what I do because nobody else can do any part of that process flow. As an architect I should be writing the requirements as I know the whole organizational structure. But then, we have no TCs to do the work. How is it even supposed to work in reality? We have 1 shop that came in to 1 current project. I had a guy today ask me how to add a field to a table. These guys charge $195 an hour.
@JDurk - you're describing the PM in our process. Essentially, "So is there any way I can make sure I am not blamed for not knowing WTF is going on?"
@rottin' - I would be curious what they would say if you said no, it was too important. Can you try that just once and report back?
@shrpshtr325 - I think to me this is just another iteration of the PM Delusion.
@stb222 - in general I do not care what time you schedule a meeting. Lunch is not an excuse to put it off for me, but I WFH so whatever. Having said that, only soulless assholes schedule anything for after noon on a Friday. I also do not schedule meetings ever. Not my job to eradicate other people's time. If I have a question, I just ask it.
@seanrunnette - I am going to be honest, that one does not resonate with me because I don't deal with accounts payable. But I can imagine this being a constant suckage.
@jmanic - I am fairly sure that 75% of emails can be deleted. I think in the workplace, wisdom is defined by knowing which 25% to pay attention to. It may be closer to 90/10%.
@rlb - this almost falls into that same 75% thing as above. I feel like that last second "I am going to send this out now" will never amount to anything.
@BCurry - no budget stuff here, so I can't really relate. I guess I just got a new travel policy but I delete those without reading. The day they start telling me that I can't get whatever the fuck I want for dinner after working a 16 day in Minnesota is the day I stop going on these trips.
@kdebello - Our PM does this and we all hate it, "I'll have my guys..." and then she turns around and asks us to do everything because she is essentially useless. The go-live org actually requested that she be removed from the daily meetings now because, in the words of one of the clients, "She is fucking pointless on these calls."
@StayHydrated - haha, yes very good. Sometimes process is not defined by common sense. That's sort of like when an Incident or Request Ticket gets closed automatically and you get the email, but nothing happened. That's always awesome.
@huffster - yeah, though I would say lazy & incompetent play a part there also.
@ChrisG - not the same exactly, but even in my world "metrics" has gotten out of hand.
In short - I really have no idea what to say or think anymore before race day (Saturday) so I'll entertain us all with tales of shitty work experiences. On a side note, I saw @pooriggy & @fidodie & @Ryan.P & @jShort today, along with a few other people who do not read this blog so I won't tag them.
@MissJR & @Santapez - Infinity Mirrors going to Cleveland...
@1sh0t1b33r - "did you get my email?" I have been known to just answer "yes" to that. And then leave it at that. I admit that in those cases I will sometimes just delete the email. I think sometimes office culture pushes us to work in a certain way and that these people feel like they are required to send an email, but deep down they want to just walk over and talk to you.
@fidodie - I am not sure how a well-oiled process is even supposed to operate. How often would you just end up interfacing with the customer, and then writing the requirements, then coding them, testing them, writing the doc, doing the demo, then training? I feel like this is what I do because nobody else can do any part of that process flow. As an architect I should be writing the requirements as I know the whole organizational structure. But then, we have no TCs to do the work. How is it even supposed to work in reality? We have 1 shop that came in to 1 current project. I had a guy today ask me how to add a field to a table. These guys charge $195 an hour.
@JDurk - you're describing the PM in our process. Essentially, "So is there any way I can make sure I am not blamed for not knowing WTF is going on?"
@rottin' - I would be curious what they would say if you said no, it was too important. Can you try that just once and report back?
@shrpshtr325 - I think to me this is just another iteration of the PM Delusion.
@stb222 - in general I do not care what time you schedule a meeting. Lunch is not an excuse to put it off for me, but I WFH so whatever. Having said that, only soulless assholes schedule anything for after noon on a Friday. I also do not schedule meetings ever. Not my job to eradicate other people's time. If I have a question, I just ask it.
@seanrunnette - I am going to be honest, that one does not resonate with me because I don't deal with accounts payable. But I can imagine this being a constant suckage.
@jmanic - I am fairly sure that 75% of emails can be deleted. I think in the workplace, wisdom is defined by knowing which 25% to pay attention to. It may be closer to 90/10%.
@rlb - this almost falls into that same 75% thing as above. I feel like that last second "I am going to send this out now" will never amount to anything.
@BCurry - no budget stuff here, so I can't really relate. I guess I just got a new travel policy but I delete those without reading. The day they start telling me that I can't get whatever the fuck I want for dinner after working a 16 day in Minnesota is the day I stop going on these trips.
@kdebello - Our PM does this and we all hate it, "I'll have my guys..." and then she turns around and asks us to do everything because she is essentially useless. The go-live org actually requested that she be removed from the daily meetings now because, in the words of one of the clients, "She is fucking pointless on these calls."
@StayHydrated - haha, yes very good. Sometimes process is not defined by common sense. That's sort of like when an Incident or Request Ticket gets closed automatically and you get the email, but nothing happened. That's always awesome.
@huffster - yeah, though I would say lazy & incompetent play a part there also.
@ChrisG - not the same exactly, but even in my world "metrics" has gotten out of hand.
In short - I really have no idea what to say or think anymore before race day (Saturday) so I'll entertain us all with tales of shitty work experiences. On a side note, I saw @pooriggy & @fidodie & @Ryan.P & @jShort today, along with a few other people who do not read this blog so I won't tag them.
@MissJR & @Santapez - Infinity Mirrors going to Cleveland...
Red Mosquito
Formerly RLB the Scrapple Boy
I never make the "did you get my email" call, but I often have to make the "hey I just sent you a really complicated email" phone call. Sometimes when you have to communicate a lot of semi-technical information this its a lot more effective to explain over the phone, but have that email so people don't have to remember all of the parameters that they would get wrong if they were just jotting them down.
Tomorrow I am supposed to race my bike for the first time in a few years, and the first time since I have stopped drinking. I think using the word "race" in this context is not entirely accurate. At the same time, the word "ride" is also not really accurate. While we are not going to blast off the line and try to get into the woods before everyone else, we are not going to stop mid ride and do bong hits, or hang out and sit on a rock and recite haikus. Or maybe we are. In this conversation, we = me and @seanrunnette.
I mention the drinking thing because it is Friday night and this used to be a "thing" I had to work around. Normally I'd have had a drink or 2 Friday night, and with the in-laws here there's always wine around. Well it's not a problem anymore. It's really just how much ice cream maybe I'll have. But then the kids obliterated it the other night so there's not really much left.
So I am left sitting here thinking...what's to think about? I am not in it to win it, nor am I in it to survive it. I know I can do it just so long as I bring food & water. I'll deal with that in the morning. I am also not the kind of person that puts everything together the night before. I will wake up at 7, make something to drink, get dressed, make bottles, pack food, then eat breakfast right before we leave, or on the way. Probably drink too much coffee on the way and have to pee 4 times before the race. Then we'll go, and then ride until we're done. Then I'll get dressed and go home. Maybe with @pooriggy.
It's just kind of a thing to do. It feels kinda neat not to have anything riding on this. I think once cross rolls around, I'll be a little more anxious because there's no such thing as just showing up at a cross racing and hoping to finish. But we'll cross the bridge when we get there.
Anyway, see you on the other side of 50k, I hope.
I mention the drinking thing because it is Friday night and this used to be a "thing" I had to work around. Normally I'd have had a drink or 2 Friday night, and with the in-laws here there's always wine around. Well it's not a problem anymore. It's really just how much ice cream maybe I'll have. But then the kids obliterated it the other night so there's not really much left.
So I am left sitting here thinking...what's to think about? I am not in it to win it, nor am I in it to survive it. I know I can do it just so long as I bring food & water. I'll deal with that in the morning. I am also not the kind of person that puts everything together the night before. I will wake up at 7, make something to drink, get dressed, make bottles, pack food, then eat breakfast right before we leave, or on the way. Probably drink too much coffee on the way and have to pee 4 times before the race. Then we'll go, and then ride until we're done. Then I'll get dressed and go home. Maybe with @pooriggy.
It's just kind of a thing to do. It feels kinda neat not to have anything riding on this. I think once cross rolls around, I'll be a little more anxious because there's no such thing as just showing up at a cross racing and hoping to finish. But we'll cross the bridge when we get there.
Anyway, see you on the other side of 50k, I hope.
I raced my bike today. See yesterday's post for the exact definition of the word "race". I think we pretty much nailed that plan. Again, to recap, we = me & @seanrunnette, aka Laurel & Hardy of the woods. We started together, rode together, and finished together. Gonna steal Pete's finish line pic here:
I almost look like I belong at these races. Getting there. Gonna also say this - today was great being able to ride with Sean. We kept each other sane, we paced each other, kept the creepy voices out of our heads by implanting them in each other's heads. And at the end, I eased up because I wanted Sean to cross the line first. He deferred, and as we rolled down I looked at my chain which had just fallen off for the 5th time of the day (so much for those locking RDs), and I rolled down the hill and coasted across the finish line. And we did it. Our rolling time was 3:30.
Rewind to the start.
Got in the car and @UtahJoe had dropped me a text asking what our ETA was. I estimated 9:15. It was around 8:00 and he said he was already there. I guess my sense of anxiety is really non-existent at this point for me to care so little about the timing. I mean, it's an endurance race. My aim is to show up, get number, poop, then line up. I really don't need to add any more time than that. Today was a little different, in that D and I were driving up together, then she was going to head home and I was going to get a lift from @pooriggy.
So I got ready, got my pit bag and my clothes bag, and went down to get our numbers. Pinned number, dropped bags in the pit, hit the rest room, then talked briefly to everyone and we took a pic. Also had a nice few words with KW before the race.
Lined up with Sean and @graveyardman67 and rolled out moderately, talking and just pacing the start out. Before long we were in the woods and Bill was off. Sean and I decided that it wasn't worth following him and we just let things work out organically. The start is a bit of a mess, but we did our best to not burn up too much. The new-ish stuff in that 3-5 mile realm was a meat-grinder but it is what it is, and each time we came upon a group of riders we just paced them and let them bobble out of the way, one-by-one.
After an hour or so, we had done 9 miles and I was feeling like Bill's prediction of 3.5 was actually somehow realistic. Sean & I took turns pulling through the lap, and he did a bang-up job of riding Sitting/Shitting Bull/Bear Extension (whatever it's called) in reverse totally clean. He may be tall but my man is riding well.
Got through that first lap at 1:40 Garmin time, which was definitely ahead of anything I thought was realistic. Stopped and swapped bottles, ate a mini Clif bar, and headed out again.
Lap 2 I took the lead and Sean was happy to follow my lines. He had done a pre-ride this week and somehow he was able to remember pretty much the narrative of the whole course. I had just ridden it less than 2 hours before, and I really could not remember how it all went. All I knew was that there wasn't any climb that was specifically so sucky that I was dreading it.
About halfway through the lap we were still almost clinging to that 9 mph average but then we started to fade a bit, and the 8.9 slid down more towards 8.5 slowly. We were both feeling the day wear on us, but with 8 to go...6 to go...5 to go...we knew it was going to be a matter of pedaling it out.
So with 5 to go we are left with that last Sitting BearBull piece and we are going back & forth with some other Cycles 54 guy. He was ahead of us for a while but then we got to The Pipe, which I had screwed up earlier and he bobbled well before it, leaving me to try it first. I managed to clear it this time (first time was kinda surprised and took a miserable angle). Sean bobbled and then he was between us as we headed towards that last rocky section. I pulled over to let him go because I am sticking with my man.
We go across that stream, and mind you this is low-speed, not any sort of race to the end. Sean pops back a little bit but we head up the section, and while he bobbles a bit I tell him to keep going. He rides the rest clean and I clean it this time much to my surprise. As we are turning a corner, the guy says, "Well if you guys won't talk about cyclocross on the podcast, can we talk about it right now?"
Color me surprised. I guess maybe more people are reading & listening to this stuff than I imagined.
So it turns out that it's @choop and we've been riding together for 20 minutes or so. We hit the fire road and I let him go past. Somewhere at the end of the rocky bit I had snuck by him again - my memory is long gone at this point so I don't know where. I just know that the last rock face towards the end triggered the "we gonna cramp you sucka" vibes from about 6 different muscles.
We finished the fire road, turned onto the last bit of single track, then climbed the last few punchy climbs before the fire road finish. On the next to last climb, my muscles locked up entirely, and I stopped dead and had to get off. I walked to the top, got back on my bike, and pulled out the old bit of Maurice advice to just ride through it. As impossible as it may seem, that actually works. I then climbed the last hill with no cramps, then we rode out the fire road to the end. See above for the last 30 seconds of the race.
So there you go. I guess I am back in some form. I'm not as fit as I want to be, nor as thin. But I'm fitter and thinner than I was maybe a year ago. So hopefully this is the first of a handful of races I end up doing this year.
Thanks for reading!
PS. D finished in the 2 hour ballpark, was happy with her race, but had scooted out before I was done. So Iggy hooked me up with a ride home. Here she is nailing down the end of the lap. Super happy to see her back out there today. We've planted the seed for French Creek in a week from now. We'll see...
I almost look like I belong at these races. Getting there. Gonna also say this - today was great being able to ride with Sean. We kept each other sane, we paced each other, kept the creepy voices out of our heads by implanting them in each other's heads. And at the end, I eased up because I wanted Sean to cross the line first. He deferred, and as we rolled down I looked at my chain which had just fallen off for the 5th time of the day (so much for those locking RDs), and I rolled down the hill and coasted across the finish line. And we did it. Our rolling time was 3:30.
Rewind to the start.
Got in the car and @UtahJoe had dropped me a text asking what our ETA was. I estimated 9:15. It was around 8:00 and he said he was already there. I guess my sense of anxiety is really non-existent at this point for me to care so little about the timing. I mean, it's an endurance race. My aim is to show up, get number, poop, then line up. I really don't need to add any more time than that. Today was a little different, in that D and I were driving up together, then she was going to head home and I was going to get a lift from @pooriggy.
So I got ready, got my pit bag and my clothes bag, and went down to get our numbers. Pinned number, dropped bags in the pit, hit the rest room, then talked briefly to everyone and we took a pic. Also had a nice few words with KW before the race.
Lined up with Sean and @graveyardman67 and rolled out moderately, talking and just pacing the start out. Before long we were in the woods and Bill was off. Sean and I decided that it wasn't worth following him and we just let things work out organically. The start is a bit of a mess, but we did our best to not burn up too much. The new-ish stuff in that 3-5 mile realm was a meat-grinder but it is what it is, and each time we came upon a group of riders we just paced them and let them bobble out of the way, one-by-one.
After an hour or so, we had done 9 miles and I was feeling like Bill's prediction of 3.5 was actually somehow realistic. Sean & I took turns pulling through the lap, and he did a bang-up job of riding Sitting/Shitting Bull/Bear Extension (whatever it's called) in reverse totally clean. He may be tall but my man is riding well.
Got through that first lap at 1:40 Garmin time, which was definitely ahead of anything I thought was realistic. Stopped and swapped bottles, ate a mini Clif bar, and headed out again.
Lap 2 I took the lead and Sean was happy to follow my lines. He had done a pre-ride this week and somehow he was able to remember pretty much the narrative of the whole course. I had just ridden it less than 2 hours before, and I really could not remember how it all went. All I knew was that there wasn't any climb that was specifically so sucky that I was dreading it.
About halfway through the lap we were still almost clinging to that 9 mph average but then we started to fade a bit, and the 8.9 slid down more towards 8.5 slowly. We were both feeling the day wear on us, but with 8 to go...6 to go...5 to go...we knew it was going to be a matter of pedaling it out.
So with 5 to go we are left with that last Sitting BearBull piece and we are going back & forth with some other Cycles 54 guy. He was ahead of us for a while but then we got to The Pipe, which I had screwed up earlier and he bobbled well before it, leaving me to try it first. I managed to clear it this time (first time was kinda surprised and took a miserable angle). Sean bobbled and then he was between us as we headed towards that last rocky section. I pulled over to let him go because I am sticking with my man.
We go across that stream, and mind you this is low-speed, not any sort of race to the end. Sean pops back a little bit but we head up the section, and while he bobbles a bit I tell him to keep going. He rides the rest clean and I clean it this time much to my surprise. As we are turning a corner, the guy says, "Well if you guys won't talk about cyclocross on the podcast, can we talk about it right now?"
Color me surprised. I guess maybe more people are reading & listening to this stuff than I imagined.
So it turns out that it's @choop and we've been riding together for 20 minutes or so. We hit the fire road and I let him go past. Somewhere at the end of the rocky bit I had snuck by him again - my memory is long gone at this point so I don't know where. I just know that the last rock face towards the end triggered the "we gonna cramp you sucka" vibes from about 6 different muscles.
We finished the fire road, turned onto the last bit of single track, then climbed the last few punchy climbs before the fire road finish. On the next to last climb, my muscles locked up entirely, and I stopped dead and had to get off. I walked to the top, got back on my bike, and pulled out the old bit of Maurice advice to just ride through it. As impossible as it may seem, that actually works. I then climbed the last hill with no cramps, then we rode out the fire road to the end. See above for the last 30 seconds of the race.
So there you go. I guess I am back in some form. I'm not as fit as I want to be, nor as thin. But I'm fitter and thinner than I was maybe a year ago. So hopefully this is the first of a handful of races I end up doing this year.
Thanks for reading!
PS. D finished in the 2 hour ballpark, was happy with her race, but had scooted out before I was done. So Iggy hooked me up with a ride home. Here she is nailing down the end of the lap. Super happy to see her back out there today. We've planted the seed for French Creek in a week from now. We'll see...
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Magic
Formerly 1sh0t1b33r
Was it locked though?
The punchy climb into the section with the fallen trees all over the place.
Great to see you back at it though, and to see large little crowd we had for this one. Great group shot. For the second time ever, the same cramps I got at MKF hit with maybe 7-8 miles to go. My pace cut severely after this and took much longer to finish the second lap, and also about where @Santapez finally left me. It's the weirdest thing, where the quad meets the knee. I tried riding it out, but it was a painful pedal to the end with a sad 7mph average. I wish I didn't forget my HR in the other car.
The Kalmyk
Well-Known Member
^^^ I call this an anxiety transfer^^^
Good Stuff Norm! I've always liked your race recaps. It was on my computer time to do list to catch up.
Juggernaut
Master of the Metaphor
The work stuff hits me too close to home, so reading the “race” write up and gleaming a different tone from the prior season(s) was uplifting in a weird sorta way. Keep doing what you’re doing....
You may be dropping you chain if your chain ring is old and worn out. I was dropping mine a lot recently and @jimvreeland replaced it Friday, no issues for 50K.
Maybe he should look at my transmission😉
Maybe he should look at my transmission😉
Steve Vai
Endurance Guy: Tolerates most of us.
I'm pretty sure no one on the MTBNJ Team has bought a new chainring in the last 10 years. Maybe you guys can get a bulk discount. It might even be cheaper to buy a CNC machine and start making your own.
Kicked off the day early again with the NICA race. D and Zac were out early to get there on time then I went shortly after with D's dad along with Julia & Simon. All 3 kids were a little tired today but this is like in the children's fast lane, so to speak. At the Chester race Zac took 5th, then at Mooch he won. So this would be his 3rd race of the season and he seemed to be excited for it. The rain postponed things 30 minutes but in all, it was a tad moist but nothing crazy. Saw a bunch of people out there and had a bunch of random conversations.
So they go off and really, it is semi-organized chaos with this many kids and this many ability levels. So they are off and we wait for them to come through for the first lap. Zac comes through in second place, and for the first time, I see a fire in his eyes, and as opposed to riding his bike he is driving himself through that pit area. This is exciting to me, and I later note this to D. This is a turning of a corner for him. He is pushing through this, and he has a little bit of a fire in his belly. It's an exciting thing to witness.
He comes through on the 2nd & final lap, and he is with a group of kids, sitting at the back. As they round the corner he stands up and pretty much passes the whole lot of them. As he comes by us his right foot pops out of his pedal and he almost falls off the bike, and almost falls off again, and eventually just runs across the finish line 10 feet away. The sprint there was for 2nd, we think, and if his foot had not popped out I am pretty sure he would have gotten it. We'll need to strap his pedals down a little tighter.
In the end, managed 3rd which is pretty damn good for the biggest NICA race in its short history.
Literally 0 minutes after the race, we left to go to Morristown to see Infinity War at the AMC in Morristown. Wow, the reclining chairs here are absolute money. I wish the airline flight was half as comfortable. The movie was awesome, and frankly a little mind-blowing in a sense. Not going to drop any spoilers but if you're a Marvel fan, you've probably already seen it. If not, go see it. Fantastic.
Late afternoon I setup the racing cross bike on the Swiffer. This will be my indoor bike for the summer. As I have discussed with @graveyardman67 & @seanrunnette lately, the races on this thing are legit workouts, and in terms of bang-for-your-buck this is hard to beat. I won't be using it nearly as often and I do not foresee any 3 hour rides on this anytime soon. But for really easy efforts or race efforts, this will do the trick. Basically, if I am trying to dial in an exact effort, this is going to be good for that. For free form rides, or group rides, or big mileage rides, I'll be outside.
Today, however, was not a race effort:
Some assorted notes from the race that I did not mention:
* my knees pretty much did not hurt at all yesterday
* my allergies have not been nearly as bad this year
* my back was killing me by the end yesterday, and this morning
* if I am going to keep up with this, I will need to dial in my long-haul nutrition
On That Last Point
I think D and I are going down to French Creek next Saturday. I will look to do the 45+ endurance that runs 9:00-1:00, and she will do the cat 2 race at 10:30 which should get her close to 2 hours. Depending on how I do, I may ride slightly more than her but we should both wrap up in the same timeframe. Then we can watch the cat 1 crew pull laps after that then all get something to eat.
Calling @pooriggy @Kirt @UtahJoe @jShort @muddybike - you guys should do that French Creek race so we can hang out and watch you all. I'll bring the salami sandwiches.
Tomorrow
Going to pick up Sean, do a ROADcast as we drive up to Stewart, meet @UtahJoe and presumably @1sh0t1b33r, work out some of the Stewart course, grab some dinner, then maybe do a return podcast depending on how we feel. Though maybe we'll actually just talk. I wonder if maybe we can mic ourselves and do an endurance race podcast later in the year. Bearscat 50-cast?
Ok maybe not. Stay tuned for podcast material as well as a Stewart race course coming soon. We need to help promote this one and get the numbers up for this one. If we struggle for 200 I think this'll be the Swan Song for this venue.
Until then, keep on keeping on!
So they go off and really, it is semi-organized chaos with this many kids and this many ability levels. So they are off and we wait for them to come through for the first lap. Zac comes through in second place, and for the first time, I see a fire in his eyes, and as opposed to riding his bike he is driving himself through that pit area. This is exciting to me, and I later note this to D. This is a turning of a corner for him. He is pushing through this, and he has a little bit of a fire in his belly. It's an exciting thing to witness.
He comes through on the 2nd & final lap, and he is with a group of kids, sitting at the back. As they round the corner he stands up and pretty much passes the whole lot of them. As he comes by us his right foot pops out of his pedal and he almost falls off the bike, and almost falls off again, and eventually just runs across the finish line 10 feet away. The sprint there was for 2nd, we think, and if his foot had not popped out I am pretty sure he would have gotten it. We'll need to strap his pedals down a little tighter.
In the end, managed 3rd which is pretty damn good for the biggest NICA race in its short history.
Literally 0 minutes after the race, we left to go to Morristown to see Infinity War at the AMC in Morristown. Wow, the reclining chairs here are absolute money. I wish the airline flight was half as comfortable. The movie was awesome, and frankly a little mind-blowing in a sense. Not going to drop any spoilers but if you're a Marvel fan, you've probably already seen it. If not, go see it. Fantastic.
Late afternoon I setup the racing cross bike on the Swiffer. This will be my indoor bike for the summer. As I have discussed with @graveyardman67 & @seanrunnette lately, the races on this thing are legit workouts, and in terms of bang-for-your-buck this is hard to beat. I won't be using it nearly as often and I do not foresee any 3 hour rides on this anytime soon. But for really easy efforts or race efforts, this will do the trick. Basically, if I am trying to dial in an exact effort, this is going to be good for that. For free form rides, or group rides, or big mileage rides, I'll be outside.
Today, however, was not a race effort:
Some assorted notes from the race that I did not mention:
* my knees pretty much did not hurt at all yesterday
* my allergies have not been nearly as bad this year
* my back was killing me by the end yesterday, and this morning
* if I am going to keep up with this, I will need to dial in my long-haul nutrition
On That Last Point
I think D and I are going down to French Creek next Saturday. I will look to do the 45+ endurance that runs 9:00-1:00, and she will do the cat 2 race at 10:30 which should get her close to 2 hours. Depending on how I do, I may ride slightly more than her but we should both wrap up in the same timeframe. Then we can watch the cat 1 crew pull laps after that then all get something to eat.
Calling @pooriggy @Kirt @UtahJoe @jShort @muddybike - you guys should do that French Creek race so we can hang out and watch you all. I'll bring the salami sandwiches.
Tomorrow
Going to pick up Sean, do a ROADcast as we drive up to Stewart, meet @UtahJoe and presumably @1sh0t1b33r, work out some of the Stewart course, grab some dinner, then maybe do a return podcast depending on how we feel. Though maybe we'll actually just talk. I wonder if maybe we can mic ourselves and do an endurance race podcast later in the year. Bearscat 50-cast?
Ok maybe not. Stay tuned for podcast material as well as a Stewart race course coming soon. We need to help promote this one and get the numbers up for this one. If we struggle for 200 I think this'll be the Swan Song for this venue.
Until then, keep on keeping on!
Magic
Formerly 1sh0t1b33r
I think T and I may take a trip out for the weekend, then grab cheese steaks in Philly on the way to the shore. You're going?
I have been wanting to do French Creek for a long time, but SSAP would usually get in the way. The 1pm start is usually a deal breaker for me, one of the biggest turn offs in XC racing. Basically just kills the whole day. But I think this year I will make an exception and try to get out there finally.
Well done Zac! Thats awesome.
Well done Zac! Thats awesome.