I had planned on doing some form of content every day through this thing, but I end up being on the board most of every day trying to keep things moving in the right direction. As such, the end of the day rolls around and I don't have much mojo left to throw into this. I guess this weekend is a lower volume weekend, as we all just sort of ran out of words and we're patiently watching the scoreboard now.
We watched Tiger King this weekend. Here is how I recapped it for
@UtahJoe. "It is a train wreck that crashes into an existing train that ran into a building, with a volcano on top that fell down and slaughtered a city of baby seals being ridden by innocent children." I posted in another thread that it also sort of makes you want to root for Coronavirus to win and eradicate humanity.
Finally got to do
Crit City in Zwift yesterday. Joined
@seanrunnette and
@Glenn Rides After 4 PM CST around lunch for an absolutely insane race. We did the C race on the suggestion of Sean and HO LEE SHIT it was hard. Awesome stuff. Sean and I both made the selection and lasted until the end, which was maybe 10-12 people of the 171 that started. We picked up 7th & 8th at the finish line. Both brutal and awesome. Super quick so it's almost like an FTP test. I checked Strava and this was my highest 20 minute power in the last 3 years. That's something else.
So we've been in this thing for 2 weeks now and I've ridden 10 hours each of the last 2 weeks. I do better with 10 hours, every week, week after week, no exceptions. This needs to be my baseline at a minimum then as the weather gets nicer I need to sprinkle in some 12 or 15 hour weeks depending. Been managing to land that, but I'm 20 hours below my pace for the year. Hoping the next 2 months of not being able to do much allows me to keep at that and chip away at the 20.
For the most part, things haven't changed too much for me. Sure the kids are here more than usual but whatever. I've been trying to get out to CR every day they're here. Sometimes it's by myself, sometimes with Julia, sometimes me & the 3 kids, and sometimes all 5 of us. I'll usually bring a tool, most often an axe, and we'll trim up the trails a little here and there. This whole thing is going to be an overall benefit to the park when all is said and done.
On that note, I'm now a TrailForks admin and have been fixing up the GPS tracks in the park, adjusting existing trails and adding some that are not there. The data is/was pretty bad and I've been fixing it slowly. I use the site so much it's only fair that I make my local park better. Maybe one day I'll get to RV but really, it's sort of hard to get lost there.
The boys have taken to the whole trail work thing and they reopened the trails on the side of the house and have doubled the total in a few days. Now we're all more vested in making them interesting and I have to say they're both busting ass to clear up the lot. Hoping that in a few weeks this will be a really fun distraction for us. I'll get more to that later, plenty of time to work & play left.
I've also initiated a screen time block on my phone because it's too easy to blow too much time on it. Between 10pm and 7am, I've locked out most apps. And I've set a 1 hour limit on the screen time for Two Dots, a stupid game I play by default when I'm laying on the couch.
Weather looks good tomorrow. Hoping to get out on the road for some miles. Join us if you want.
Ok, enough words. Time to go stare at graphs some more.