woof

I can’t ride until this afternoon. It’s going to be 90 with winds out of the west at 13-15, will need to plan accordingly. We’re taking the girls to “kayak” this morning, which really means paddle half a mile and then watch them swim in the lake while I read a book.

We found out Friday one of our dogs may have cancer, taking her to a more technologically advanced practice than the farm vet we use now on Tuesday so hopefully we will have a better picture then. She’s lost about 10 pounds over the last few months with no parasites or any other cause-we’ve even upped her food intake. Bloodwork showed some issue with her liver but they couldn’t find anything in x-ray.

Real miles or fake miles? The edge-of-hurricane rain was supposed to hit early morning and last all day (on and off) but is now slated to start at 10. I could get some distance, but...

I don't trust it not to drench me. Fake.

bikes need baths too!

#fairweathercycliist

I don't wash the bikes as much as I should, and REALLY don't like getting trapped out in the rain. The availability of the trainer, and especially a smart trainer, has made me soft in that regard; when I lived in Boulder I did group rides with hail bouncing off my helmet (and borderline painful on my arms) and when I lived in San Antonio there were group rides where we go stuck a few times needing to cross low water crossings with several inches of water. Now I'm like "rain on the forecast? Netflix!"

Time for me to ride, too.

....too bad it's raining, and looks like it'll continue to do for a few hours, at least. If it's not still raining at lunch time, we have a back yard family thing to attend. Hopefully things will clear enough for me to squeeze in a short ride in the afternoon - I'm sitting at 199.4 miles for the week and not getting over 200 is going to bother me. :notamused:

it’s a beautiful day down in the obx. Working on not riding and perfecting my skin tone, while catching a little wave action.

Slacker - what would your fitness/freshness chart say? :eek:

effort lower than normal.....

You could have handled that at the end of your last ride, like a true OCD. Do you not keep a tally in your head of where your total stands so you don't have situations like this?

For the Wahooligans, if Garmin stays down into next weekend I'm picking one up. Is the Roam worth it over the Bolt, at full retail?

My question. What would be the point of this? Garmin will come back and be better security wise than before. Wahoo could get hacked months from now and be in the same situation.

For most, I would say "no." My understanding is that the primary differences are: color screen, mucho extendo battery life and more comprehensive routing capabilities. If you're one to do long rides in unfamiliar areas, then I would be more inclined to spend the extra money. I have aspirations of being that kind of rider, but I would still have a hard time coughing up the extra dough if I had to replace my Bolt.

Patches are heavy.

I knew my week-to-date mileage when I left the house, but not to the decimal point. On the ride, I was more concerned with hitting 100k and was pretty sure that any overage would push me past 200 miles. I was off by that much.

Oh, no no no no. It would say that your fitness is dropping off of a cliff and that it would take time and effort to claw your way back up. Scary. :twitchy:

According to Velo Vol , it's nearly winter. So, why bother.

Looks like summer weather.

#YearWithoutSummer

well in that case, I have no choice but to start a new sport. Cross country skiing seems appropriate.

Wouldn't downhill be more appropriate? :innocent:

;)

How long are you on vacation with the fam?

Touché

Til Monday, Then back to work. I should be able to sneak a couple of miles in before I leave. Just enough to see me name at the top for 12 hours or so.

80F?

Hardly.

Have you broken out the down parka yet?

Got a TSS of 46 for a 3-mile walk with L-SS this morning. In flip-flops. .

I will be riding a short stretch of gravel again this morning.

:foo:

Related, I'm looking ahead and starting to get scared about what it's going to take to continue to keep my fatigue above my fitness. It used to be that, if I were going to ride every day, I needed to mosey on many of those rides so that I didn't get too deep in to the red. Now I'm starting to need moderately hard rides on my 'off' days just to keep from crossing the fatigue/fitness streams.

Back up to 100 here by Friday.

We don't know how long it will take Garmin to come back, nor what level of damage it will do to their long-term operations (how long for them to get back on-trend, development wise). My MO until now has been to record on my watch for all activities (keeps its notion of my fitness accurate) and the 520 is for visibility of data while riding and a backup in case my watch eats the ride. It is, however, a relatively old 520 that AG got as a refurb when one of hers had an issue and she bought another while they were processing the RMA. I have a vacation (staycation) next week and would like a fully-functional record of my rides, which is why I put the timeframe on it.

And yes, the day it happened I pointed out to AG that it probably hit Garmin by random or they were perceived as a better target. However, if I get a Wahoo and they're hit next year... I'll still have my Garmin equipment. It's diversification, not just jumping from one ecosystem to another.

Thanks; that was sort of my feeling but I'm glad to get more input. Plus, as I recall the Garmin mapping is better (when they work...) and I'd sooner get an 830 or 1030 if we started doing excursions past what I could plan for. Or just pull out my phone and figure out how to get back.

And I don't know if the new house is less well-ventilated or I just notice it more by contrast to going outside, but I can definitely feel myself suffocating now by comparison to outside. That's with the house fan on, window open, and a pretty powerful fan pointed right at me. Might need a window fan when winter arrives and I'm doing this more regularly; it really limits the TSS I can do.