WhyFi

Had a really good ride this morning. It was pretty windy, so I chose to go out in to the headwind, conservatively, and then back home with the tailwind, at a little more brisk pace. Somehow I ended up smashing my metric PR and finished in ~3hr 12mn (19.5mph). That's pretty bonkers to me (for me).

Also went over 4k miles on the year, which is typically my annual goal.

Velo Vol 

Three weeks ahead of winter. Kudos.

datlas 

Good ride today. Roads were wet and the air was humid. There were lots of hills and I had a blast.

Did I miss anything while away?

datlas 

Are you doing many more rides this week? Asking for a friend.

abshipp 

Dang. Kudos!

WhyFi

Ha. The ride today also featured some good ol' CAT6ing. Well, something like that.

I saw a guy ahead of me and was closing on him. He hit a red, and I ended up rolling up behind him. When the light turned green, he made a pretty obvious show of hammering away. I went back to my previous pace, more or less, and saw that, after the first 30 seconds or so out of the gate, I was closing on him again. Rather than get up on his wheel, I decided to hang back, out of his draft but still in his headspace, to see if it would goad him in to blowing up trying to stay ahead of me. He started showing signs of cracking, particularly on small inclines, so I finally rolled past casually. Not surprisingly, he jumped right on my wheel. I was generous enough to him, riding smoothly, signaling hazards, etc, until the next incline. It hurt like hell, but I sat and churned, looking as casual as I could, assuming that he would drop away. Didn't even give him the look. He did drop away, I guess, because I didn't see him when I turned off a short time later.

abshipp 

I admire your route planning skills, setting out to ride 100km and your route has you riding 100.6km

WhyFi

Prolly every day. Wife is off though Labor Day and we don't have much by way of plans. I might be able to squeeze in a longer (62mi+) ride on Sat, but will probably keep the rest shorter and have some family time.

datlas 

Kudos.

Between you and Hummer, best I can even hope for is 3rd. I am off Monday and plan to ride, so next week has potential.

WhyFi

Ha. I've ridden variations of the route before and knew that it would get me to my sandwich shop, so I stopped the ride at 62.5, picked up my lunch and then slow-rolled home (separate ride on Strava, so it happened).

Bah Humbug

Me too.

datlas 

Wait until I semi-retire. Plan/dream is to work 2 days/week and ride 5 days weekly. Then you will all rue.

#PCADRIP

Bah Humbug

If that happens during my post-severance sabbatical we can have some epic duels.

datlas 

That fancy schmancy toaster oven/air fryer that mrs datlas ordered was back-ordered but finally coming today. I have zero ideas on what to do with an air fryer, but I imagine Google and YouTube will be full of ideas.

MoAlpha

So, I'm riding home from work in a closed lane of a 2-lane road that has "No vehicles" signs sprouting out of it. I see a buddy of mine coming the other way on the opposite side of the road. I turn around and yell at him and smack into a sign at about 12 mph. Oh my ******g God that hurt. I didn't go down, but I have bruises on my right shoulder, thigh, and hand. I don't think they're running the TT tomorrow, but I'm not sure I could do it. Jeez, I'm an idiot.

MoAlpha

In further idiot action, I dropped the glass top of the slow cooker, smashing it to bits, so Long-Suffering Spouse ordered an Instant Pot® on Daughter's recommendation. She says she's going to start cooking a bit after she retires. We shall see...

WhyFi

They're just little convection ovens, so they'll crisp things a little better than a conventional oven. But fryer? No.

Ha. Boneheadedness happens to the best of us - glad it wasn't worse. More importantly, how embarrassing was it for that to go down in front of your buddy?

abshipp 

Ouch!

When I was about 8 I was riding along near a school (I think), looking around and not paying attention to what was in front of me - specifically the set of bollards with a chain running in between them.

Clotheslined myself very well.

MoAlpha

He didn't see anything and I remained standing.

Bah Humbug

Drink it in, boys.

datlas 

There’s no fool like an old fool. Heal up ASAP!

datlas 

In other marital compromise news, mrs datlas asked for fresh baked bread for tonight and not enough time for sourdough, so I loaded the evil machine up and pushed the start button.

datlas 

Mrs datlas is doing her part by making mango gazpacho. She had a few extra slices of mango which I was very happy to dispose of. It was very sweet.

genejockey 

In still other marital compromise news, Mrs. GeneJockey surprised me by being completely understanding about my ordering a new wheelset to replace the cracked Fulcrum Racing 5s on my Bianchi. She even said, "Well, duh. Stuff wears out".

I wonder if she'd be as understanding about a new BB and crankset?

MoAlpha

Just finished a lab meeting where I think I was pretty unpleasant due the amount of pain I was in. I decided not to make excuses, but I'll have to apologize to people later.