Stripes

It wasn't too cold today, there were stripes of warm air, then cool/damp stripes too. It made the ride in more interesting trying to figure out where it was going to change. In SCUBA they call it a thermocline, I think. Something like that, sweaty and happy today, I smelled bad all day.

Template

New plastic and clean everything. Puzzles mixing together, trying to do three at once, but all of the pieces are in one pile. New challenges to test the mind, legs and lycra. The template is set and the piles are getting broken out into their individual jobs. Linear, not scattered.

Mashers

Getting ready to close the doors for a while, mid season break to glue it back together for the last month of racing. Putting it all together in favor of the Late Season, to be fresh when the rest of the bread is stale.

Dog food

I think my vision is going. I keep seeing things maybe it's through frozen eyes, at 15 degrees, trying to see if the black ice melted. Almost through the midpoint of cross and I am lackluster to put it nicely. I feel like dog food today. A full-on cluster yesterday at the start. Who has heard of a rolling "neutral" start to a cross race at a venue that allows for a proper start? It was totally fucked. I rode the first bit of the race after being on the front row in the mid 20s, not my preferred starting plan. After burning matches to get near the top 10 the front group was GONE. Riding around trying to catch first lap heroes and get to the first sheet placings wore me out. Less gas than I needed and I rolled in 6th. Oh well, at least the official knew he f-ed it up. And, more importantly it won't happen again.

I think I'll go look for this spot. I know where it is but I need to get there.

Soon

Poetry

I stole this from here. Great idea and something I could dump a ton of time into. Maybe that'll be the project for the next few weeks. I just need to find an online method of writing one. Instead of the messy magnets all over the place. I guess the direction I would like to go is a lot like this short posts that are vague, take what you want from them or just leave them alone.

Nights to Day

This is a good night. Only one though because if I down more than that it throws the whole pattern off balance. The pattern is key these days. I take one day off the bike completely because of work and weather and I feel like ass getting on the thing this morning. It was 6 degrees, but that doesn't make it right to feel that off. I arrived at work chilled, java chip chilled.

Iced

Sometimes the glasses get iced over or the rain/snow/graupel pelt the clear vision away and leave views like this, only minutes from home, struggling to get inside before the full chill takes hold and stays for hours.

BTUs

Pushing on the pedals a lot these days has the system in overdrive. I never get cold, even riding in the snow downhill. The furnace is moving a lot heat.