James Pearl Thinks Blogging is Dead
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it's the week of 9/30... it's on the following saturday.
unless his calendar is all messed up
well... that's how i'm reading the calendar anyway
@jShort you forgot to mention I started a puzzle while you were gone. As for another trip, I look at something like Louisville as a chance to take a trip somewhere I might not ordinarily go. Much like St. Louis or Oklahoma City or The River Styx. Plus if we plan it right we'll all get to hang out together and be in Kentucky, which actually looks worse when you write out the name of the state in print. Let's just keep it to Louisville, which sounds better.
Did a podcast today with @seanrunnette which of course you all know, but tagging him allows me to tag more people. We talked about Cleveland and Rock 'n Roll and Vietnam and Cross and new teammates and other nonsense. I think we had some really good runs in there mingled with our usual gutter balls from time to time. Props to Sean for being able to create the first actual rendition of a Schrodinger's Cat in gift form. That story alone makes this podcast worth the listen.
Today's ride was easy, recovery, which I intended to do outside but then the day went to shit and [insert usual excuse] and I was inside just answering emails and spinning. I changed the colors on the spreadsheet so that red is now a race, and orange is now a hard workout. I also think maybe I need a color for a "normal" ride, like the CR ride where it's not easy, not hard, and not long. Yellow I guess? And yes @MissJR understands how to read a calendar. Kudos to that. Not going to like that post from @Carson as doing so might make the date red due to suddenly being free to race that weekend. Moving on...
Went to the MPAC tonight to see a showing of The Greatest Showman, which was good. Thanks to @Dominique for scoring those free tickets. I made a list of movies on the plane from San Francisco which I want to see, and this was on it. Also want to see the second half of Darkest Hour, which I started on one of my flights somewhere and then the movie feed shit the bed so I wasn't able to watch the second half. As for showman, as I told @jmanic - it's good but you need to set expectations twofold: 1) it is a movie-musical and 2) it is not super historically accurate. I enjoyed it.
Work made me angry this morning. So I stopped working for that specific client for the rest of the day and worked on something else. I read the chapter of the book You Are Not So Smart this week which deals with venting, and it has been shown that venting your anger in a physical manner actually creates more future physical violence. There was one specific experiment that showed this was the case to an extreme. So toss the stress balls and punching bags and the next time you are angry, take a 5 minute timeout and sit in relative silence. You'll be happier and less violent in the end.
Tomorrow is a hard effort, I may do a Zwift race. I'm going to start working on my warmup (30-45 minutes?) then my race starts. Part of that warmup will be eating, and how to lead into this thing. The first possible race I could do is Whirlybird, on 9/8, which is a kids weekend Saturday. I would have a 10:30 race which would take some logistical MBU swapping to make happen. But not impossible.
Did a podcast today with @seanrunnette which of course you all know, but tagging him allows me to tag more people. We talked about Cleveland and Rock 'n Roll and Vietnam and Cross and new teammates and other nonsense. I think we had some really good runs in there mingled with our usual gutter balls from time to time. Props to Sean for being able to create the first actual rendition of a Schrodinger's Cat in gift form. That story alone makes this podcast worth the listen.
Today's ride was easy, recovery, which I intended to do outside but then the day went to shit and [insert usual excuse] and I was inside just answering emails and spinning. I changed the colors on the spreadsheet so that red is now a race, and orange is now a hard workout. I also think maybe I need a color for a "normal" ride, like the CR ride where it's not easy, not hard, and not long. Yellow I guess? And yes @MissJR understands how to read a calendar. Kudos to that. Not going to like that post from @Carson as doing so might make the date red due to suddenly being free to race that weekend. Moving on...
Went to the MPAC tonight to see a showing of The Greatest Showman, which was good. Thanks to @Dominique for scoring those free tickets. I made a list of movies on the plane from San Francisco which I want to see, and this was on it. Also want to see the second half of Darkest Hour, which I started on one of my flights somewhere and then the movie feed shit the bed so I wasn't able to watch the second half. As for showman, as I told @jmanic - it's good but you need to set expectations twofold: 1) it is a movie-musical and 2) it is not super historically accurate. I enjoyed it.
Work made me angry this morning. So I stopped working for that specific client for the rest of the day and worked on something else. I read the chapter of the book You Are Not So Smart this week which deals with venting, and it has been shown that venting your anger in a physical manner actually creates more future physical violence. There was one specific experiment that showed this was the case to an extreme. So toss the stress balls and punching bags and the next time you are angry, take a 5 minute timeout and sit in relative silence. You'll be happier and less violent in the end.
Tomorrow is a hard effort, I may do a Zwift race. I'm going to start working on my warmup (30-45 minutes?) then my race starts. Part of that warmup will be eating, and how to lead into this thing. The first possible race I could do is Whirlybird, on 9/8, which is a kids weekend Saturday. I would have a 10:30 race which would take some logistical MBU swapping to make happen. But not impossible.
this is Sunday, 9/9 according to bike reg
It's also in the middle of summer. #cxiscancelled
Beautiful ring! It’s getting real
Release the mouse. I did that when I found my cats torturing one at 2am. Almost locked myself out of the house in my underwear. I can’t kill anything. Except mosquitoes. Fuggin HATE mosquitos. We are currently driving to VT to try to get away from them.
Happy training ... that’s all foreign to me.
Release the mouse. I did that when I found my cats torturing one at 2am. Almost locked myself out of the house in my underwear. I can’t kill anything. Except mosquitoes. Fuggin HATE mosquitos. We are currently driving to VT to try to get away from them.
Happy training ... that’s all foreign to me.
Friday
The guy at work who pissed me off Thursday apologized to me and said he was trying to get the other people to actually do something useful. After the call I started the Religion-like Process that is "preparing for a cross race". In other words, today I had a Zwift race and I planned to work on my warmup before it. Did a little reference-research and put together something, and threw together a playlist to go along with it. My goal in this effort is twofold. First, I want to get the routine down that works well enough for me. Second, once I get that, I will put together a playlist to use to warmup to. Then I will make this part of my training to do this standard warmup & race.
First pass I managed to snag 3rd in the C race. This is by far the only time I was even remotely close. I came in 10th overall, which includes the A/B/C/Ds as well. The guy in first in the Cs won by like 9 minutes, and won the whole race, so he was probably using estimated power or some nonsense. @seanrunnette said I will never win one of these races. He then went on to win his C race later in the day.
That night we watched The Five on Netflix while the kids played Minecraft downstairs. It's pretty good. Another one to keep an eye out for is Mindhunter. Bedtime was me reading my current book, which I will point out because it is good. The Sympathizer. A post-Vietnam book which is in-line with the Burns Vietnam documentary I am slowly watching now.
Saturday
I will make the argument for racing Whirlybird short. It is an early season litmus test to see how your early training/religious-process is coming along. It is a total throwaway race and allows you to see how well you have addressed yourself to present to the season. You can do this as your only actual race in September and get away with it.
On that note, I will be pushing @Dominique and @2Julianas hard next weekend to commit to Thunder Mountain for the Nittany weekend so I am not tempted to do that race. I can tell you flat out that I will want to do it if I am here. Save me from me.
Saturday morning I woke up and made myself eggs and read the Times. It was a relaxing morning.
Did a recovery ride in the morning and watched Eureka, starting season 4 still. I am not sure this show is totally worth it anymore. It shook things up too much and lost a little zing.
After lunch did a 90 minute hike with the kids at CR. I have to say this park is actually really great for a family hike. It was a perfect mix of length & difficulty and we got the hawk watch plus the falls. Great day, even if it was a tad warm.
Drove out to my parents after, hung out, jumped in the pool, relaxed in the back yard, read the rest of the Times, including stumbling across this gem. Are these things mutually exclusive?
Kids wound down to TV while we stayed outside and relaxed to this kind of day:
On the drive home, listened to the Freakonomics podcast with Lance Armstrong at the suggestion of @UtahJoe - solid episode. Highly recommend it.
Sunday
I had penciled in another Zwift race today but I woke up and was tired, so the idea of getting up and racing then doing yardwork all day sounded awful. So I stayed in bed then eventually got up and just relaxed again. At 10:00 I went outside and we started attacking the yard, which gets loved than it should being that we make our lives over-busy at times. Well, maybe all the time. Anyway, we are going to have a wedding here in just over 2 months so I guess we better get this shit together.
Here is the child willingly mowing the lawn:
Another project I've been wanting to do is to build a fake well around the real well in the front yard. Today the boys helped me do this. In reality, this was mostly them. I just helped with some muscle and a little guidance on putting it together. This was a big effort on their part. We had to tear a lot of stuff apart to make this happen.
Decided not to ride because after 3.5 hours outside, I was spent. Drank a bunch of liquids, ate some lunch, relaxed a bit, and spent a bunch of time outside in the afternoon, plus we ate dinner on the front porch. It's easier to hang out on the porch when you like the way everything looks.
Japanese curry for dinner. Hit the spot.
Looking Ahead
End of training week #1 I think it went well. The race was good, and I had 2 hard efforts aside from that. Had another 2+ hour ride to make sure I am getting hours and had 2 easy days in there to keep the legs operating properly. The only yellow day was today as it was neither an easy nor hard day. Yellow is what I have decided to call "normal" which in training terms, is something to avoid as much as you can. Those are the rides that are not long for endurance, not hard to elicit training effect, and not easy to allow recovery. Typically these are sub-2 hour moderate rides.
The week ahead - this is a tough one. Since I took the last 2 days off/easy I feel that I need a hard effort tomorrow. But since it is Monday and it's not raining, I want to do the CR Monday ride. So, I think I'm going to go an hour+ early and hammer for an hour before the 5:30 crew, at which point I will likely drag ass to keep myself together for the rest of the group ride.
Tuesday will be another hard effort, then Wednesday I will rest.
Thursday will be a Zwift race or a hard ride outside depending on how my day goes.
Friday I will take off, and we will drive to Raystown.
Saturday and Sunday we will ride Raystown, which will both be endurance days. And espresso days.
Zwift is coming out with a new world next month, Innsbruck, Austria. I am excited about this, as I have never experienced a new world before. It also turns out that this is where UCI World Championships are being held at the end of September. I will say having this in Zwift means there is a very non-zero chance that I actually try to watch them this year. I will likely be indoors the 9-12th so this will be a heavy dose of the new world. I think there are hills in this, so I will probably get slaughtered.
The guy at work who pissed me off Thursday apologized to me and said he was trying to get the other people to actually do something useful. After the call I started the Religion-like Process that is "preparing for a cross race". In other words, today I had a Zwift race and I planned to work on my warmup before it. Did a little reference-research and put together something, and threw together a playlist to go along with it. My goal in this effort is twofold. First, I want to get the routine down that works well enough for me. Second, once I get that, I will put together a playlist to use to warmup to. Then I will make this part of my training to do this standard warmup & race.
First pass I managed to snag 3rd in the C race. This is by far the only time I was even remotely close. I came in 10th overall, which includes the A/B/C/Ds as well. The guy in first in the Cs won by like 9 minutes, and won the whole race, so he was probably using estimated power or some nonsense. @seanrunnette said I will never win one of these races. He then went on to win his C race later in the day.
That night we watched The Five on Netflix while the kids played Minecraft downstairs. It's pretty good. Another one to keep an eye out for is Mindhunter. Bedtime was me reading my current book, which I will point out because it is good. The Sympathizer. A post-Vietnam book which is in-line with the Burns Vietnam documentary I am slowly watching now.
Saturday
I will make the argument for racing Whirlybird short. It is an early season litmus test to see how your early training/religious-process is coming along. It is a total throwaway race and allows you to see how well you have addressed yourself to present to the season. You can do this as your only actual race in September and get away with it.
On that note, I will be pushing @Dominique and @2Julianas hard next weekend to commit to Thunder Mountain for the Nittany weekend so I am not tempted to do that race. I can tell you flat out that I will want to do it if I am here. Save me from me.
Saturday morning I woke up and made myself eggs and read the Times. It was a relaxing morning.
Did a recovery ride in the morning and watched Eureka, starting season 4 still. I am not sure this show is totally worth it anymore. It shook things up too much and lost a little zing.
After lunch did a 90 minute hike with the kids at CR. I have to say this park is actually really great for a family hike. It was a perfect mix of length & difficulty and we got the hawk watch plus the falls. Great day, even if it was a tad warm.
Drove out to my parents after, hung out, jumped in the pool, relaxed in the back yard, read the rest of the Times, including stumbling across this gem. Are these things mutually exclusive?
Kids wound down to TV while we stayed outside and relaxed to this kind of day:
On the drive home, listened to the Freakonomics podcast with Lance Armstrong at the suggestion of @UtahJoe - solid episode. Highly recommend it.
Sunday
I had penciled in another Zwift race today but I woke up and was tired, so the idea of getting up and racing then doing yardwork all day sounded awful. So I stayed in bed then eventually got up and just relaxed again. At 10:00 I went outside and we started attacking the yard, which gets loved than it should being that we make our lives over-busy at times. Well, maybe all the time. Anyway, we are going to have a wedding here in just over 2 months so I guess we better get this shit together.
Here is the child willingly mowing the lawn:
Another project I've been wanting to do is to build a fake well around the real well in the front yard. Today the boys helped me do this. In reality, this was mostly them. I just helped with some muscle and a little guidance on putting it together. This was a big effort on their part. We had to tear a lot of stuff apart to make this happen.
Decided not to ride because after 3.5 hours outside, I was spent. Drank a bunch of liquids, ate some lunch, relaxed a bit, and spent a bunch of time outside in the afternoon, plus we ate dinner on the front porch. It's easier to hang out on the porch when you like the way everything looks.
Japanese curry for dinner. Hit the spot.
Looking Ahead
End of training week #1 I think it went well. The race was good, and I had 2 hard efforts aside from that. Had another 2+ hour ride to make sure I am getting hours and had 2 easy days in there to keep the legs operating properly. The only yellow day was today as it was neither an easy nor hard day. Yellow is what I have decided to call "normal" which in training terms, is something to avoid as much as you can. Those are the rides that are not long for endurance, not hard to elicit training effect, and not easy to allow recovery. Typically these are sub-2 hour moderate rides.
The week ahead - this is a tough one. Since I took the last 2 days off/easy I feel that I need a hard effort tomorrow. But since it is Monday and it's not raining, I want to do the CR Monday ride. So, I think I'm going to go an hour+ early and hammer for an hour before the 5:30 crew, at which point I will likely drag ass to keep myself together for the rest of the group ride.
Tuesday will be another hard effort, then Wednesday I will rest.
Thursday will be a Zwift race or a hard ride outside depending on how my day goes.
Friday I will take off, and we will drive to Raystown.
Saturday and Sunday we will ride Raystown, which will both be endurance days. And espresso days.
Zwift is coming out with a new world next month, Innsbruck, Austria. I am excited about this, as I have never experienced a new world before. It also turns out that this is where UCI World Championships are being held at the end of September. I will say having this in Zwift means there is a very non-zero chance that I actually try to watch them this year. I will likely be indoors the 9-12th so this will be a heavy dose of the new world. I think there are hills in this, so I will probably get slaughtered.
LOL. I don't think so!
jnos
Well-Known Member
Ear protection? Not trying to backseat parent, just remembering my youth and wishing I had some ear protection when mowing the lawn.
Are they? Yes. Should they be? No. Outdated fear.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-cuneo-gay-blood-donor-20180705-story.html
Pearl
THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING
For me, please, you guys should really do this loop in State College before you leave back home for NJ:
https://www.strava.com/activities/14203830
Gravel up to Tussey, theres may a .75 mile of tech climb, then the rest is along the ridge and rather fun, the views are amazing. A couple of tricky rocky sections, but they are all flat and you can see what you're getting yourself into. The descent back to the car is extremely fast and smooth, I almost remember it being sand like.
And then if you liked that, you could even climb back up the gravel road just a little more and do the Lonberger trail which is super DUPER fast and flowy.
Can someone else convince them?
I even made the Tussey/Lonberger file for you: https://www.strava.com/routes/14642933
https://www.strava.com/activities/14203830
Gravel up to Tussey, theres may a .75 mile of tech climb, then the rest is along the ridge and rather fun, the views are amazing. A couple of tricky rocky sections, but they are all flat and you can see what you're getting yourself into. The descent back to the car is extremely fast and smooth, I almost remember it being sand like.
And then if you liked that, you could even climb back up the gravel road just a little more and do the Lonberger trail which is super DUPER fast and flowy.
Can someone else convince them?
I even made the Tussey/Lonberger file for you: https://www.strava.com/routes/14642933
+1 for Rothrock/Tussey Mountain.
JDurk
Well-Known Member
+2
Pearl
THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING
