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cereal
raisin bread/fruitcake
trail mix
rice pudding
plain
That's about it.
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07-18-20, 07:32 PM
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What exactly is a strawberry rhubarb sour?
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Thanks again. I'm pretty happy. 2 minutes off the podium, so I'm not setting the world on fire, but they're TT only guys, for the most part. Some of us upper middle aged guys don't actually like crits, and other mass start stuff, and just do TT's. I tried that after I went down, and I couldn't do it. Vo2 on a TT bike is a world that needs to be lived in. It's crazy hard, and you wonder why in heavens name you're messing about like that.
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07-18-20, 08:02 PM
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07-18-20, 08:04 PM
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07-18-20, 08:05 PM
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I hadn’t done a TT in about 33 years before this season and I’ve found I sort of like the discipline, even though I’m slow and it hurts. Life is unpredictable, but I will never be even slightly tempted to consider thinking about the concept of possibly riding a crit again in this one.
It's the drug of choice. I'm not great, and have no sprint, but I still find them fun. If they could go hard for like 3-4 laps, instead of surge, I stand a better chance. I can hang with the surges, but have little left for the end.
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07-18-20, 08:06 PM
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I mean, online. But still. Yeah, I kinda want one.
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I do not, and I have had a power amp failure twice before with two other amps so I'm always a little suspicious of that. My Traynor was such a PITA about that.
It's a good idea to check, but I'm pretty sure the issue is between the preamp and effect loop send. Everything sounds great with the P2 acting as a preamp going straight in to the effect loop return, and if I take everything out of the loop and plug directly into the amp everything sounds fine as well.
It's a good idea to check, but I'm pretty sure the issue is between the preamp and effect loop send. Everything sounds great with the P2 acting as a preamp going straight in to the effect loop return, and if I take everything out of the loop and plug directly into the amp everything sounds fine as well.
07-18-20, 08:51 PM
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07-18-20, 08:56 PM
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07-18-20, 09:01 PM
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07-18-20, 09:02 PM
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07-18-20, 09:18 PM
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Well hell. My watts were pathetic, but I'm sveldt, and I've pulled a crap ton of spacers, so I'm looking a little more like something that may be slightly more aero than a brick. I must have looked like I was using one of those stair stepper/elliptical type bikes prior, because I pulled a lot out... I finally broke an hour on a 40k TT, even though I was begging for a flat tire with 40 minutes gone... Oh my oh my was it hot. 58:43. I'll take it.
its doubtful we will be racing any time soon with COVID spikes
which is an ok thing by me right now actually
im wondering if I’ll ever get back to it
07-18-20, 10:03 PM
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We went to Yosemite last week. They are limiting admissions due to COVID, only about 50% capacity. I figured now’s the time to go, if I ever wanted to see it in summer. So we packed up the dogs and rented a cabin and took off for 4 days. I’d never been before.
Day 1 we arrived early and ran smack dab into a deer-in-a-meadow cliche
Trip got off to a fine start.
Then we hiked to the top of Vernal Falls. I read the trail was only a mile, I was figuring on 45 min. Lol, yeah it’s a mile straight up. Literally stairs hacked into the granite for a mile. And we had to hike 2 miles to get to the trailhead, on account of COVID changes to parking access and also no shuttles running. And I fully understood that you had to go down John Muir Trail and couldn’t come back down the Mist Trail (to/from) Vernal Fall. But I didn’t know that the John Muir Trail went up more before it came down. There went 4 hours. But: totally worth it. The waterfall is majestic.
Day 2 started with Puppy Love snatching a vole right out of its burrow, killing it instantly, and then Baby Ash trying to grab it and me stepping in dog doo trying to break up the tug of war. Then off to Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias. Where we were able to drive right up to the trailhead (on account of arriving so early) and hike the grove with only two other people in it. It was so serene and beautiful.
Then we hiked out to Taft Point, where you can walk right to the edge of the cliff that makes up the wall of Yosemite Valley and plunge 3500 feet to your death, should you so choose. We saw some cool rock formations called the Fissures in which ginormous cracks were present in the rock all the way to the valley floor. 3500 ft deep cracks, they were hard to capture in a photo, in part because it’s terrifying to get too close to them.
Then we drove out to Washburn overlook and Glacier Point. From which you get a great view of Yosemite Valley and begin to understand the scale of the place. In the pic below, you can see Half Dome, To the right, note Nevada Falls. That’s the waterfall *above* Vernal Falls, that we chose not to hike too on account of being wiped from just getting to Vernal Falls. Then zoom way way in on the pic and the tiny waterfall below Nevada Falls is the majestic Vernal Falls from Day One’s hike. Yosemite is positively epic. Giant things dwarfing other giant things dwarfing still other giant things.
When we got back, we took the dogs down to the Merced River for a swim (well wade actually). They liked being with us, and thought the River was semi-cool but mostly they liked the tortilla chips that a picnicking family spilled on the beach.
Day three we got up super early to drive out to Tioga Pass Rd to see a few alpine forest type of sights. Puppy Love I guess expected to come with, on account of the river trip the afternoon prior maybe. She starts barking furiously when we left the cabin, we turned back to look and through the window we see he jump out of her ex pen onto the TV console from which she’s watching us depart in barking disbelief. We sorted her out (crate time, baby!) and off we went.
Saw a marmot and deer and carbonated water bubbling from the ground at Toulmne Meadows but no flowers, so: no pics. Then we hiked alongside the beautiful alpine Tenaya Lake. Hello gorgeous.
We were kind of hiked out at this point. Did a half mile more at Olmsted Point (epic views of the back of Half Dome) and a picnic lunch by Yosemite Creek, dipping our toes in the water that would soon enough be Yosemite Falls.
The Cabin we were renting had a sleeping porch, so I thought it would be cool to sleep there on our last night with the dogs to “practice” camping. Lol Mr H was a hard no, he preferred the king bed inside with air conditioning. The dogs thought it was fun, for an hour. Then they wanted in too. So in the end I slept out there by myself (I had made up the bed, no way was it ok for no one to sleep in it, lol).
Next morning at dawn, the dogs wanted back out on the porch. Turns out the cabin has a bat problem, Baby Ash was mesmerized by the bats landing on the house and then disappearing into the eaves. Puppy Love really likes to sleep in. Not even fluttering bats could stir her.
It was a great trip, so glad we went. Crowds were minimal, and non existent early. It was an old fashioned trip- we hiked, picnicked, cooked dinner at the cabin, hung out. So nice!
We bought an annual pass for all the NPs. Who knows what will happen with COVID, but right now we’re planning (to the point of having reservations) on Sequoia and Kings Canyon in Aug, Bryce Canyon NP in late Aug (on the way to Park City), Arches and Canyonlands NPs in early October (Continuing Education meeting for me in Moab), Joshua Tree NP late October, and the Grand Canyon (on the way to Sedona) in November. Thinking about Yosemite again next June and maybe Lassen Volcanic NP/Redwood NP/Crater Lake NP/Bend OR next July. No specific 2020 plans though.
Day 1 we arrived early and ran smack dab into a deer-in-a-meadow cliche
Trip got off to a fine start.
Then we hiked to the top of Vernal Falls. I read the trail was only a mile, I was figuring on 45 min. Lol, yeah it’s a mile straight up. Literally stairs hacked into the granite for a mile. And we had to hike 2 miles to get to the trailhead, on account of COVID changes to parking access and also no shuttles running. And I fully understood that you had to go down John Muir Trail and couldn’t come back down the Mist Trail (to/from) Vernal Fall. But I didn’t know that the John Muir Trail went up more before it came down. There went 4 hours. But: totally worth it. The waterfall is majestic.
Day 2 started with Puppy Love snatching a vole right out of its burrow, killing it instantly, and then Baby Ash trying to grab it and me stepping in dog doo trying to break up the tug of war. Then off to Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias. Where we were able to drive right up to the trailhead (on account of arriving so early) and hike the grove with only two other people in it. It was so serene and beautiful.
Then we hiked out to Taft Point, where you can walk right to the edge of the cliff that makes up the wall of Yosemite Valley and plunge 3500 feet to your death, should you so choose. We saw some cool rock formations called the Fissures in which ginormous cracks were present in the rock all the way to the valley floor. 3500 ft deep cracks, they were hard to capture in a photo, in part because it’s terrifying to get too close to them.
Then we drove out to Washburn overlook and Glacier Point. From which you get a great view of Yosemite Valley and begin to understand the scale of the place. In the pic below, you can see Half Dome, To the right, note Nevada Falls. That’s the waterfall *above* Vernal Falls, that we chose not to hike too on account of being wiped from just getting to Vernal Falls. Then zoom way way in on the pic and the tiny waterfall below Nevada Falls is the majestic Vernal Falls from Day One’s hike. Yosemite is positively epic. Giant things dwarfing other giant things dwarfing still other giant things.
When we got back, we took the dogs down to the Merced River for a swim (well wade actually). They liked being with us, and thought the River was semi-cool but mostly they liked the tortilla chips that a picnicking family spilled on the beach.
Day three we got up super early to drive out to Tioga Pass Rd to see a few alpine forest type of sights. Puppy Love I guess expected to come with, on account of the river trip the afternoon prior maybe. She starts barking furiously when we left the cabin, we turned back to look and through the window we see he jump out of her ex pen onto the TV console from which she’s watching us depart in barking disbelief. We sorted her out (crate time, baby!) and off we went.
Saw a marmot and deer and carbonated water bubbling from the ground at Toulmne Meadows but no flowers, so: no pics. Then we hiked alongside the beautiful alpine Tenaya Lake. Hello gorgeous.
We were kind of hiked out at this point. Did a half mile more at Olmsted Point (epic views of the back of Half Dome) and a picnic lunch by Yosemite Creek, dipping our toes in the water that would soon enough be Yosemite Falls.
The Cabin we were renting had a sleeping porch, so I thought it would be cool to sleep there on our last night with the dogs to “practice” camping. Lol Mr H was a hard no, he preferred the king bed inside with air conditioning. The dogs thought it was fun, for an hour. Then they wanted in too. So in the end I slept out there by myself (I had made up the bed, no way was it ok for no one to sleep in it, lol).
Next morning at dawn, the dogs wanted back out on the porch. Turns out the cabin has a bat problem, Baby Ash was mesmerized by the bats landing on the house and then disappearing into the eaves. Puppy Love really likes to sleep in. Not even fluttering bats could stir her.
It was a great trip, so glad we went. Crowds were minimal, and non existent early. It was an old fashioned trip- we hiked, picnicked, cooked dinner at the cabin, hung out. So nice!
We bought an annual pass for all the NPs. Who knows what will happen with COVID, but right now we’re planning (to the point of having reservations) on Sequoia and Kings Canyon in Aug, Bryce Canyon NP in late Aug (on the way to Park City), Arches and Canyonlands NPs in early October (Continuing Education meeting for me in Moab), Joshua Tree NP late October, and the Grand Canyon (on the way to Sedona) in November. Thinking about Yosemite again next June and maybe Lassen Volcanic NP/Redwood NP/Crater Lake NP/Bend OR next July. No specific 2020 plans though.
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07-19-20, 04:02 AM
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Looks fantastic Heathpack. Kudos!
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