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10-09-16, 07:20 PM
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I ate the best Corn Dog I've ever had (Jalepeno cheese corney dog) and some fried Jello. The latter was very meh.
10-09-16, 07:33 PM
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10-09-16, 07:43 PM
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I've had the opposite experience. Since taking flu shots the last six years, I've had zero flu events and just a single common cold, the latter of which normally occurred at least once a year. The odds of that happening by chance are astronomical.
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10-09-16, 08:07 PM
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10-09-16, 08:16 PM
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10-09-16, 08:19 PM
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The only time I worry is when I hit the training peak for a race, because there is a fine line there.
10-09-16, 09:59 PM
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I had a pretty fun weekend:
The whole "View First Unread" thing broke. Don't even know how many pages to catch up on. Forgive me in advance if I don't give you kudos...
The whole "View First Unread" thing broke. Don't even know how many pages to catch up on. Forgive me in advance if I don't give you kudos...
10-09-16, 10:05 PM
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So no one has been impacted by the hurricane? We haven't heard from any NC people.
@datlas You experiencing any rain or wind down that way?
@datlas You experiencing any rain or wind down that way?
They were going to tear the carport down anyways... so not too big a deal.
10-09-16, 10:12 PM
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Hmmm... not such a good weekend for us. We attempted our final randonnee for the season, a 600 in Victoria.
Things conspired against us. Machka made a very brave attempt, but this was on the back of her terrible viral body rash episode *and* another chest virus last week.
Then major flooding meant the ride organiser had to reroute the entire event. And there was the wind and night-time cold; that was just on the first day.
We finished the leg at 6.20am with 377 official km (and 10 or so extra thrown in for a wrong turn) well within the time limit (just over 25 hours at 8.10am), but I knew what the weather forecast was for Sunday -- winds up to 45km/h (actual was well over 50) and the route had us going with no tailwind to speak of. So we called it quits.
The 600 is considered by many the hardest randonnee, even against the 1000s and 1200s because their overall minimum average speeds are slower. You are faced with the decision on whether to sleep or not. And the time limit is 40 hours (15km/h average) so if you haven't time in the bank -- because of headwinds, tiredness or recurrent mechanicals -- you can easily kybosh the ride.
it means we won't get our Super Rando award, but there is always next season, and we've start planning for that. I also always enjoy the travelling aspect and time away from work, so the trip was no big loss. I *am* looking forward to some warm-weather riding, which I hoped this event might have delivered, but didn't.
Finally, I have to get some decent prescription wraparound glasses -- my eyes have been as equally troublesome as my inner quads since the ride.
Things conspired against us. Machka made a very brave attempt, but this was on the back of her terrible viral body rash episode *and* another chest virus last week.
Then major flooding meant the ride organiser had to reroute the entire event. And there was the wind and night-time cold; that was just on the first day.
We finished the leg at 6.20am with 377 official km (and 10 or so extra thrown in for a wrong turn) well within the time limit (just over 25 hours at 8.10am), but I knew what the weather forecast was for Sunday -- winds up to 45km/h (actual was well over 50) and the route had us going with no tailwind to speak of. So we called it quits.
The 600 is considered by many the hardest randonnee, even against the 1000s and 1200s because their overall minimum average speeds are slower. You are faced with the decision on whether to sleep or not. And the time limit is 40 hours (15km/h average) so if you haven't time in the bank -- because of headwinds, tiredness or recurrent mechanicals -- you can easily kybosh the ride.
it means we won't get our Super Rando award, but there is always next season, and we've start planning for that. I also always enjoy the travelling aspect and time away from work, so the trip was no big loss. I *am* looking forward to some warm-weather riding, which I hoped this event might have delivered, but didn't.
Finally, I have to get some decent prescription wraparound glasses -- my eyes have been as equally troublesome as my inner quads since the ride.
10-09-16, 10:17 PM
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10-09-16, 10:18 PM
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I snuck over to OK to eat at the most oklahoma restaurant ever. It's called Windy's Catfish, just on the OK side of the dam on lake Texoma. It was like stepping back into 1986. Good catfish, though.
10-09-16, 10:32 PM
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About that MTB ride. Yeah, that's a trail they let bikes onto, not a MTB trail. Holy **** it was 4 miles of grapefruit (minimum) sized jagged rocks. It's a trail people ride just to say they managed it. It was not very enjoyable. Also, freaking LONG rocky steep climbs.
The trail stewards just decided to put stairs right in the middle of this creek crossing, as an example of how they aren't really planning on anybody doing this trail on a bike:
So, I survived. I had to walk more of it than I wanted. I see some further fitness goals from this ride. There were a couple of climbs that were not too technical for me, but technical, steep, and long enough where my bum ticker was forcing me off the bike, rather than anything on the trail.
Can't say same for my rear derailleur. Most of that ride was limping along constantly fiddling with the barrel adjustment just to keep the damn thing in gear. And I couldn't use my lowest gear, as I had the chain fall off into the spokes at one point. I don't think it did damage to the spokes, but I'll have the shop check it when they look at the RD/hanger itself.
I didn't fall hard. I was coming on a road crossing and heard some bro truck gunning it (I couldn't see more than 10' up or down the road at that point), so I came to a quick stop, and I couldn't get unclipped, so I intentionally leaned over into a bush. I don't know why, but my right pedal has gotten pretty hard to get out of on the last few rides. Suppose I should do something about that now. Anyways, that bush wasn't as substantial as it looked, and I went over the rest of the way, onto the drive side.
Worst part is I carry a spare hanger with me. But since I don't really know how to setup an RD in the first place, I figured I'd be better off going ahead and limping it the rest of the way.
The trail stewards just decided to put stairs right in the middle of this creek crossing, as an example of how they aren't really planning on anybody doing this trail on a bike:
So, I survived. I had to walk more of it than I wanted. I see some further fitness goals from this ride. There were a couple of climbs that were not too technical for me, but technical, steep, and long enough where my bum ticker was forcing me off the bike, rather than anything on the trail.
Can't say same for my rear derailleur. Most of that ride was limping along constantly fiddling with the barrel adjustment just to keep the damn thing in gear. And I couldn't use my lowest gear, as I had the chain fall off into the spokes at one point. I don't think it did damage to the spokes, but I'll have the shop check it when they look at the RD/hanger itself.
I didn't fall hard. I was coming on a road crossing and heard some bro truck gunning it (I couldn't see more than 10' up or down the road at that point), so I came to a quick stop, and I couldn't get unclipped, so I intentionally leaned over into a bush. I don't know why, but my right pedal has gotten pretty hard to get out of on the last few rides. Suppose I should do something about that now. Anyways, that bush wasn't as substantial as it looked, and I went over the rest of the way, onto the drive side.
Worst part is I carry a spare hanger with me. But since I don't really know how to setup an RD in the first place, I figured I'd be better off going ahead and limping it the rest of the way.
Kudos.
10-10-16, 05:13 AM
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10-10-16, 05:29 AM
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While you were at the red river battle, I was camping on the Red River.
I snuck over to OK to eat at the most oklahoma restaurant ever. It's called Windy's Catfish, just on the OK side of the dam on lake Texoma. It was like stepping back into 1986. Good catfish, though.
I snuck over to OK to eat at the most oklahoma restaurant ever. It's called Windy's Catfish, just on the OK side of the dam on lake Texoma. It was like stepping back into 1986. Good catfish, though.
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10-10-16, 06:12 AM
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Penman, how long on the avatar? It's distracting.
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10-10-16, 06:21 AM
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While you were at the red river battle, I was camping on the Red River.
I snuck over to OK to eat at the most oklahoma restaurant ever. It's called Windy's Catfish, just on the OK side of the dam on lake Texoma. It was like stepping back into 1986. Good catfish, though.
I snuck over to OK to eat at the most oklahoma restaurant ever. It's called Windy's Catfish, just on the OK side of the dam on lake Texoma. It was like stepping back into 1986. Good catfish, though.
10-10-16, 06:24 AM
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Scarlet Knight
About that MTB ride. Yeah, that's a trail they let bikes onto, not a MTB trail. Holy **** it was 4 miles of grapefruit (minimum) sized jagged rocks. It's a trail people ride just to say they managed it. It was not very enjoyable. Also, freaking LONG rocky steep climbs.
The trail stewards just decided to put stairs right in the middle of this creek crossing, as an example of how they aren't really planning on anybody doing this trail on a bike:
So, I survived. I had to walk more of it than I wanted. I see some further fitness goals from this ride. There were a couple of climbs that were not too technical for me, but technical, steep, and long enough where my bum ticker was forcing me off the bike, rather than anything on the trail.
Can't say same for my rear derailleur. Most of that ride was limping along constantly fiddling with the barrel adjustment just to keep the damn thing in gear. And I couldn't use my lowest gear, as I had the chain fall off into the spokes at one point. I don't think it did damage to the spokes, but I'll have the shop check it when they look at the RD/hanger itself.
I didn't fall hard. I was coming on a road crossing and heard some bro truck gunning it (I couldn't see more than 10' up or down the road at that point), so I came to a quick stop, and I couldn't get unclipped, so I intentionally leaned over into a bush. I don't know why, but my right pedal has gotten pretty hard to get out of on the last few rides. Suppose I should do something about that now. Anyways, that bush wasn't as substantial as it looked, and I went over the rest of the way, onto the drive side.
Worst part is I carry a spare hanger with me. But since I don't really know how to setup an RD in the first place, I figured I'd be better off going ahead and limping it the rest of the way.
The trail stewards just decided to put stairs right in the middle of this creek crossing, as an example of how they aren't really planning on anybody doing this trail on a bike:
So, I survived. I had to walk more of it than I wanted. I see some further fitness goals from this ride. There were a couple of climbs that were not too technical for me, but technical, steep, and long enough where my bum ticker was forcing me off the bike, rather than anything on the trail.
Can't say same for my rear derailleur. Most of that ride was limping along constantly fiddling with the barrel adjustment just to keep the damn thing in gear. And I couldn't use my lowest gear, as I had the chain fall off into the spokes at one point. I don't think it did damage to the spokes, but I'll have the shop check it when they look at the RD/hanger itself.
I didn't fall hard. I was coming on a road crossing and heard some bro truck gunning it (I couldn't see more than 10' up or down the road at that point), so I came to a quick stop, and I couldn't get unclipped, so I intentionally leaned over into a bush. I don't know why, but my right pedal has gotten pretty hard to get out of on the last few rides. Suppose I should do something about that now. Anyways, that bush wasn't as substantial as it looked, and I went over the rest of the way, onto the drive side.
Worst part is I carry a spare hanger with me. But since I don't really know how to setup an RD in the first place, I figured I'd be better off going ahead and limping it the rest of the way.
Was this in the Texoma area? Our local MTB trails look similar to that.
10-10-16, 06:59 AM
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No kidding! Maybe if there is a groundswell of dissatisfaction, Ruokie will take pity and commute my sentence. I'm just glad that when I can change it to something else, the change will be retroactive.