rjones28 

Lots of people walking, running, cycling on the Erie Canal path today. The parking area was full. The state park access parking used by the mountain bikers was overflowing. Of course, it's easy to keep your distance out on the trails.

LAJ

I went out and did The Beast on Candella's today. 2 sets of 3x2' 130% w/2' rest, then 3x1' max w/1 minute rest, then 6x30" max 5' rest between sets. This was always an ass-kicker, simply because it is. This year, I actually went up in power as the 2' went on, which is amazing, at least for me. I attribute it to the 4x2' w/1' rest x 4 I did throughout the winter, on the %*($%#@#% trainer. Those let me think 2 whole minutes between, was like a vacation... Of course, there were numerous cyclists out, but I didn't give them 6 feet, because I still don't want to get flattened. That stretch has gone from the road to nowhere, to the Monaco Grand Prix.

LAJ

I'm thinking MoAlpha should be approaching Montreal soon.

LAJ

I hope their first lady doesn't see him, otherwise the testing may be a bit more involved.....

indyfabz

Contagion would be closer to reality. Watched it last week.

Watched this the other night. Feel good film.

LAJ

The Stand. You know, because Boulder IS the safe haven.

LAJ

Nurse Ratchet and Annie Wilkes in a cage match.

abshipp 

All IL state parks closed as well.

LAJ

Results of the Replacement 100, on iRacing......

1-Josh Williams
2-William Byron
3-Steven Steffen
4-TJ Majors
5-Parker Kligerman
6-Tyler Overstreet
7-Garrett Smithley
8-Dale Earnhardt Jr.
9-Bubba Wallace
10-Coleman Pressley

datlas 

To get rid of all the blood??

LesterOfPuppets

Dang, I meant to watch some of that.

I think I'm almost done with my 3 months of iRacing, since they sent me a 3 more months for $12 email the other day.

LAJ

Crap. I'm sorry if I was a spoiler. I figured I was the only one that would venture into the arena.

datlas 

So I advised my bike club leadership that it makes sense to suspend official group rides for now. It’s not good PR for the club when the governor has ordered nonessential stores closed and suggested no large group gatherings. I advised that we could still have small unofficial group rides with appropriate precautions.

They apparently don’t agree. Yet.

WhyFi

How's that gonna work? Are they going to close the "gates" and still man the stations? Otherwise people will just park their cars and walk and/or ride their bike in.

LesterOfPuppets

Don't worry, I'm not bothered by the spoiler. I wanted to watch some of the live stream on twitch, just to check it out.

I saw a blurb about NBA teams playing a game on NBA 2k.

Esports might really take off if this keeps up.

kissTheApex

I keep meaning to update the gaming computer I have and try iRacing, but there’s always something else to buy.

LAJ

I can't believe how well they've improved on the look of iRacing. It's pretty amazing, to be honest.

LAJ

Bikes are cheap in comparison to what those rigs cost.

LesterOfPuppets

It doesn't take much with all the eye candy on low.

I play it with a 3.1 GHz i5, 16 gigs RAM and an olde Nvidia 750

WhyFi

Does that mean that they want to continue with the full group rides or that they want to suspend them altogether?

I'm perfectly content to continue to ride with my small group. Everybody knows to excuse themselves if symptomatic, they've been even more courteous w/r/t spitting and snot rockets and it's not like we're in heavy sweating weather. Another MN guy in another thread mentioned getting sweat on him from the person ahead of him in a paceline... like, it was like 30° that day - I rode and a) I didn't sweat that much b) I have a hard time believing any of my sweat escaped from my face, which was my only exposed skin.

LesterOfPuppets

Yep, looks pretty awesome with the settings maxed.

I go back and forth on whether I like iRacing or Assetto Corsa better gameplaywise.

LAJ

California and Illinois shutting down private establishments.

Yeah man.... Necessary, or fear mongering. You be the judge.

I don't know enough to be able to be 100% certain, but I think the mouth breathers lined up at Costco et al, should be the first thing to be looked at.

kissTheApex

I bet. Especially considering I still play GPL on my old gaming computer.
Yeah, especially the newer head mounted display capable ones can be put together at an eye watering premium.
My rig is so old, it can only handle GPL and its 65, 69 mods. I’d rather not tell when I built it #cheapskate

WhyFi

I think that there's huge pressure to not be the guy/girl that didn't do enough, so it's going to be overreact or nothing.

And yeah, then there's the prepper-panic buyers kicking off waves panic buying because people are worried that the prepper-panic buyers are going to pick the carcass clean before they can buy their regular Tues night spaghetti. Eesh.

abshipp 

Very likely, yes that's what will happen. The local state park is gated to cars on the main entrances, but there are at least 4 or 5 other entrances where you can get in with a bike or on foot.