Transition: Day 15 (of 26) - What Day and/or Time is it?
I realized today as I walked out of Acme that not only do I no longer know what day it is, I really had no idea what time it was. I figured just based on general evidence, it had to be somewhere between 1 and 4. And I was right. But it's interesting that the best I could muster was a 3 hour window when so much of our lives are dictated by meetings at specific times.
So right now, time is a sort of vague and/or nebulous concept.
I went to Home Depot after breakfast but before lunch. I bought a bunch of wood for the Log (Lady) Ride extension. And other stuff. You know how they have buckets all over the place at Home Depot? Why do they have almost no lids? I asked someone who worked there this question. He said, "That's a good question."
No shit.
Spent some time with Julia when I got back. Between my leaving and coming home, she magically appeared. I mean, not magic, not really. But she was here. I spent time with her as she did a STEM project then helped her out making a no-bake dessert. She asked to bake and I was like, hey how about this thing I found in the Times?
Then I went for a really easy road ride. My legs needed an easy day. It was nice out. Cool, but nice.
At some point I went to Acme. Like I said, it was between 1 and 4.
So that flip-flop berm-jump. I have now named this run JB1 - J is for Jump and B is for Berm. But really it's Berm-Jump. But I didn't want to call it a BJ run. So the flip flop I posted the other day -
@stb222 and I talked a bit about it, and he pointed out that the transition between the 2 can be used to sort of bump up & over to start the 2nd berm. Well, when I looked at this, I realized the second berm base was higher than the first. Ok so I dug out that second berm, put the dirt on top, and made this transition better.
Here's the end of berm 2 coming at you:
Did a lot of rock-sifting on this, which was needed as this was built pre-sifter. I put a lot of fresh dirt on top of dried/hard dirt so I am not sure how well this is going to pack in. I watered it a bit, and rode it (obviously) and it held up well. Zac rode it later and we agreed this is really starting to flow well. This JB1 run is really coming along. After I did this work I sessioned the run for 15 minutes before getting off and focusing on something else.
There's a 3rd line, which I do not have a name for. Maybe RTOB for the start (Rock Therapy) and the end (Outer Banks). But the berm on OB just isn't tight nor deep enough to let you roll it without brakes. And there's a tree that means if you screw it up, it could hurt a real lot. I fixed this up to some extent, but I went into this knowing this was going to be a rough, real rough, v1. As such:
The mound at the end is my buildup to try and direct you away from that tree. I need to dig out more of the upper turn and I also need to trim down the crap on the left which you can't see but it blocks the visibility on the berm. I did manage to ride it once without braking but it is a little too tight for session runs. Eventually that tree is going to win. So this will likely be something I work on more in the coming days.
And just like that Wednesday is over.