It's 2020. It's a Saturday night. We don't have the kids and we pretty much have nothing going on. D is sick. The weather here is such that biking is meh and skiing is meh and being outside much at all is meh. I don't say that as a testament to how sad everything is outside. Tis the season, as they say. It's just not stokeville enough to motivate us to do much, especially with D being under the weather.
We went away for the holiday. As many of you know, that trip was up north. In all it was 6 days, 2 travel and 4 full on the ground. We kicked it off with a Christmas show in Easton, PA, and we ended it with a long Christmas day drive that ended in, well you guessed it, Easton, PA.
The blog posts from 1 to 6:
You won't read these. I mean, I don't expect you to, because I just dumped 6 links, covering 6 days, 5 states/provinces, 3 ski trips, 1000+ miles on the road, and so on. There are a bunch of pictures and words. But it's Saturday night and, unlike us, you probably have something better going on than to click the links above and read all them.
I digress. It's 2020 and with that comes various lifestyle things like, "So what are you going to do with the year?" and "What does the year 48 mean for you?" and so on. There's not a really formal answer to that. I'm going to be 50 in a few years. In fact, if I race cross at the end of the year I can race the 50+ class due to the goofy USAC/UCI rules. Point being, I don't necessarily start the year with new goals like climbing mountains, or learning the tango, or anything like that. I'm too old to wake up on January 1 and decide I want to climb Mount Kilimanjaro.
Speaking of the tango, we just finished
Why Women Kill and it's a really solid watch. It's on CBS All Access which we got so my step-father could watch the Jets game last week. It was $6 for the month, so between that game and the series, it was more than worth it.
Yet again, I digress. I made some tweaks in the things I track, but nothing crazy. I could do some year end stats and projections and stuff. But to what end? I've been kicking around the idea of trying to get something published somewhere but that's super vague. I've also started the year riding with a purpose. But I did that last year, and it never amounted to anything other than being able to ride the bike in a bunch of different spots. That's not a bad thing. This year I have added it to my trackable things.
Ok I'll state this one thing. My goal is to do 10,000 pushups in 2020.
I'm going to Reston, VA on Monday for work and coming back on Thursday. The excitement is at 11. Like a Spinal Tap 11. This is not a 2020 goal.
Blogging isn't dead, per se. I just don't know what to say that I haven't said a bunch of other times before. I mean, there's always work but I don't feel like talking about that much. I'm still trying to find a good balancing point with that. If I were to state a goal for 2020 it would be to nail down that sweet spot with the job. It's only been 4 months, so it's still very new in the grand scheme. But this isn't necessarily a 2020 goal so much as it's a Q1 goal for 2020. But, there's no way for me to quantify it. Subjective goals are hard to measure. Doing 10,000 pushups? That's a Yoda layup. However, "Don't worry, be happy," is not something you can objectively put a pass/fail on. Maybe unless you write a song.
I would also like to be more involved on the site & team & community and so on, but I have to admit that I feel like I've lost touch a bit with the board as a whole. This may just be me getting older. and being around here forever. I think this year is my 15th on the site, and like 17th on the NJ MTB boards as we were all on MTBR before this. That's a lot of years, a lot of bike rides. That's 6200 days of talking about bikes and bike-related things in the state of NJ, and around the state of NJ.
According to Trailforks, there are just over 4800 miles of trails in NJ. I find that hard to believe, but assuming this is true, I could have devoted a day discussing every mile of trail in NJ in that time. Seriously, what else is there to say? I've probably done 5000+ rides in that time. What differentiates ride #2343 from ride #4502? I have no idea. Maybe it wasn't raining on 1 of the rides. But I don't know.
I may bring 1 or 2 (or 0) bikes with me to Reston, VA. I'm not sure yet. White Clay and Patapsco are between here and there. I'm thinking White Clay will be too greasy. I've ridden that place a bunch anyway. Maybe I'll hit Patapsco on Monday on the drive down. I went there once and it was fine. I also know this will be a jam-packed trip with 8-9 hour days, then people-ing, and meals, and stuff like that which I would rather not have to do. Ideally, I would love to show up at 9, do the needful, and go back to the AirBNB at 5 and go find my own dinner. I don't like the group meals because a) they always pick shitty food and b) I don't like anyone there enough to spend 12+ hours with them.
Just like the old show,
Eight is Enough. Do you think they had alternate names of that show, such as
Buy Some Condoms or
For Christ Sake Stop Fucking So Much?
Anyway, I'll try to keep this up a bit better. As another oldie/goodie sitcom went, you take the good you take the bad you take it all and there you have...something or other.
Welcome to 2020. If I had a new blog I would name it something about Vision. But I'm getting old so I have to wear reading glasses now. See y'all around.
