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06-07-23, 09:24 PM
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06-08-23, 05:32 AM
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06-08-23, 05:36 AM
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This whole primary caregiver thing is exhausting.
Trying to remain thankful that we're just dealing with a mobility issue and not an illness.
Trying to remain thankful that we're just dealing with a mobility issue and not an illness.
06-08-23, 05:45 AM
#5829
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Not bad, but short term T bills are well over 5% and no state income tax!
06-08-23, 06:33 AM
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06-08-23, 06:37 AM
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What is state income tax?
06-08-23, 07:14 AM
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Yeah - I got a whole bunch of info from this adventure. It was a sprint, and I did with my BIL who is an Oly and 70.3 guy and we have a plan for late August. The swim ended up being closer to 700yds, which isn’t bad - been doing 800s-1000s for a while - but was unexpected.
My T2 time was just over 3 minutes and I know I have a lot of room for improvement there. I am psyched for the next one!
My T2 time was just over 3 minutes and I know I have a lot of room for improvement there. I am psyched for the next one!
Tris are so much fun - with regular running races you mostly go with a pack of people at about your pace. In a tri, the waves and swim and bike mean that the run course is seeded with people at all speeds with all sorts of leads on you or delays behind you, so there's a whole game available of chasing down the leaders and holding off the chasers. I miss that most of all.
In other news, saw a bear on this morning's run. Did an about-face and finished on campus instead of the rural areas towards the mountains.
06-08-23, 07:28 AM
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06-08-23, 07:31 AM
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06-08-23, 07:56 AM
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06-08-23, 08:09 AM
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06-08-23, 08:30 AM
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Understood. I have a high-yield savings account for that. Last I checked it's 4.3% which is not quite T-bill territory but good enough and liquid/insured.
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06-08-23, 08:42 AM
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06-08-23, 08:44 AM
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06-08-23, 08:45 AM
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06-08-23, 08:52 AM
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For all you guys watching Purple Air like a hawk, on what would be Prince's 65th birthday...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvnYmWpD_T8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvnYmWpD_T8
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06-08-23, 08:52 AM
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That's really something unusual. A DH frame with a high-pivot driven by a jackshaft? A DW-Link suspension and crabon/aluminum tubes. I'd like to see it all built up, maybe ride it down a hill.
I only knew one guy who raced DH. He said amateur racers only got one or two runs and couldn't pre-run the course. He was a very good road rider.
I only knew one guy who raced DH. He said amateur racers only got one or two runs and couldn't pre-run the course. He was a very good road rider.
Unless they're really going to ship like that???
06-08-23, 09:08 AM
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More likely they are trying to create curiosity/interest that maybe they have created the next big thing.
06-08-23, 09:27 AM
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I wonder what they're hiding at the headtube... new steering damper design?
06-08-23, 09:30 AM
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06-08-23, 09:32 AM
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06-08-23, 09:35 AM
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It doesn't matter much. Although DH bike were over 50 pounds at one time but did lose weight. Now, some are going back to aluminum frames instead of crabon. Or some never went to cf at all.
DH bikes are a strange niche. Sales numbers are very small and development is expensive. I think it's a prestige thing for manufacturers and they can point to the "trickle down" effect for their enduro and trail bikes.
DH bikes are a strange niche. Sales numbers are very small and development is expensive. I think it's a prestige thing for manufacturers and they can point to the "trickle down" effect for their enduro and trail bikes.
06-08-23, 09:38 AM
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