The Impossible Burger
I had never heard of an Impossible Burger before yesterday, but now I am motivated to earn myself an Impossible Burger. Today I thought to myself...what would I need to do in order to earn the eating of a burger, either possible or impossible, from Turf & Surf? We've eaten there before, and while the food there is super good, it is also super not healthy. In general I think you need to really earn something like this. See now Jeremy, you gave me a goal. The question follows - what do I need to do to earn that? Ride 50 miles on the road? Ride 3 hours at CR? Pull a 19 mph average for a 2+ hour ride?
I don't know the answer to that question.
After I sat down to write this, I looked it up and it seems interesting. Now, the course is set. I have an Impossible Burger in my future. I just need to earn it. Which of course means defining what is meant by "earning it". I'll ruminate on it and get back to you.
The Possibly Impossible Bike Ride
After the weekend I was feeling pretty good today and decided to try and pull a double spin class today. Last week I also pulled a double but it was more like 2 individual spin classes broken up by a 45 minute rest between. I also dialed them both back a tad because I wanted to make sure I got to the end of them, as opposed to burning out and not wanting to keep on. Today, the classes were 15 minutes apart so I just stayed on the bike and D grabbed me a number, which is how the YMCA meters out the bikes. I just took a break to pee and change my shirt, which was drenched after the first class.
I did the first class and gave it a solid showing. Now I know some of you, well one of you in particular, will rage that I went to spin class at all on a warm day like today. But those of you who have done these know they are no joke if you actually give it an honest effort. So the first class was all-in, solid interval workout. Took a few minutes between then just kept going until the 2nd one started. I miscalculated a bit and didn't bring anything to eat. In addition, I double miscalculated and thought they were both 45 minutes when in fact, the second class was an hour.
Foreshadowing of course. I popped a bit more than halfway through the second class. My right knee had started to hurt so I stopped standing when Kerry (the teacher) stood. Like last time my knee started to hurt, I just dialed up the resistance and tried to grind it out. This was all well and good until things just started to get impossibly hard about 30 minutes before the end. I took off most of the resistance and just spun out the rest of the class. 2 hours, 10 minutes, and 39 miles.
If I had made it all-in for both, would I have earned an Impossible Burger?
The Possibly Impossible Creak
Google translates the common Chinese expression of JIA YOU, as "COME ON!" When you are watching a sporting event, the crowd will yell "Jia You!" Or if you were trying to encourage someone on, you would yell the same. I have seen another translation as claiming it means "add more gasoline to the car" which is about as accurate as saying you can translate "blue" as "not green". That's not really what it means.
I had a 3 hour conference call again today and while I was on it I took the backup cross bike apart and regreased the bottom bracket. I think I need a new BB but it's not so bad that it cannot survive the rest of the trainer season. I should probably get some new bearings and swap them out. Utah thinks this looks like a typical bike of mine. I think this looks more on the clean side than usual.
Anyway, I cleaned it up a bit and as the Chinese say when they are watching a sporting event, JIA YOU! The literal translation of "jia you" is "add oil". When I eat Chinese food, I often JIA LA YOU, where LA means "spicy".
I also swapped out the skewer to the proper one.
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Das Dishwasher Was More Busy
Signs of a warm weekend this morning on the drying mat:
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The Impossible Dessert
By impossible, I mean it would be impossible to finish all this in one sitting and not feel like you wasted the entirety of that 2 hours and 10 minutes on the bike tonight.
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