Jungle Tonight
Well, at least I hope so. Few of us are going up late afternoon to ride around a bit. I put the 19t on the SS so I'll be 32-19'ing it. This assumes my car is still in the lot when I get to Newark. I took the Awesome Van to work today and just planned to buy the May permit when I got there. Unfortunately, nobody was working yet so I don't have a tag. If I had thought this through, I would have hung the old tag which is good for 10 days. But I didn't think it through, so now I've left it to chance.
I called the lot and it's just a machine. I'm sure they DGAF that I left a message in the hopes that I could ensure the car would be ok. I don't expect the guy there gets paid enough to care. I left a note in the window but I'd be lying if I said that I'm sure he can read it.
Anyway, I guess we'll see soon enough. Jet out of here at 3:00 and hope to be there by 4:45. If that fails, who knows what ends up happening. I hope the rain is not too bad.
Hunger
For me, without question, night is the hardest time for me to control hunger. I read this today which may be what's going on:
http://nutritionsuccess.org/blog/20...g-in-sight-identify-your-daily-eating-trends/
This does describe me. No matter how much I ride in the morning I can get away without eating too much. But I'm sure it's not enough. Still, I'm usually ok with it.
The article suggests that my night hunger may have to do with my unbalanced eating/burning times. Basically I burn without enough calories, go the whole day in a massive deficit, then crash as the day winds down.
The thing is, I've tried eating more in the early parts of the day and it usually does nothing to help hunger later. But it's been *really* bad lately so I need to work on it. As an example, yesterday I ate 70% of my daily calories after 6:00 pm. That's stupid. I know, it's just stupid. But it's worked for me in the past. I guess I need to fix this.
A Ride
Talked to Chris a bit last night & today and there are a few things they want to change. Well 1. They just want to have a more relaxed warm-up, which is fine. A lot of guys show up cold and don't like the hot start. We usually ride from the house so we get at least 10 minutes to warm-up. Of course, a more tame start is only going to fire us up later when the ride gets saucy. But if that's better for the group, that works for us.
I suspect that we will start to rotate what we do every Tuesday. Before long it's going to be time to think about cross. Oh hey, actually, it's time now. I need to talk to Jim and get the cross bikes back together. Or something, like kinda have like 2.7 cross bikes right now. All 2.7 of them are really nice bikes. I'm hoping to have a solid fall this year.
Anyway, I think our Tuesdays will rotate between the A rides, doing our own team road rides, mountain bike rides, and cross practice.