Yesterday was the first truly snow covered ride of the year I've had.
It was fun, cool, and chill(ey). We started with a temp of 20, but it made it all the way to 30 by the end of the ride.
It was my first ride on the Nokian Extreme Studded tires. I don't think they helped a lot. They felt heavier, but that might have had a lot to do with the snow, and tired legs. Regardless of what they say about studded tires not spinning out on rocks or log piles, there were a few log piles where they tires did spin out, while others (granted they were on 29ers) were able to roll over them.
I miss the ergon grips that I have on the c-dale 29er. Those things are the best.
Although the 32x19 (approx. equiv to a 32x21 on a 29er) has been made fun of for being too easy, in the snow and the nokians it was definitely taxing for me.
Race talk for next season is starting. I've got a lot planned, definitely the Michaux races and Mohican 100, some WVMBA xc stuff. Sadly the W101 falls on the same dates as BlackHat and Defcon, so I probably won't make it to W101 (which is crazy, I might be the only bike racing geek who would pass up a race for work).
I'm also planning a lot of road racing, much more than last year. I'll probably buy a season pass for the ACA crits, and I'm hoping to do some more real crits (i.e. ones with turns instead of the nascar stuff at the oval).
As for resolutions, I have two.
1. get some sort of schedule to life. Mostly this is get out of bed before 9am everyday. (This is by no means an invitation for people to start trying to get me to rides that start at 8am).
2. Become even more impossible. Which is to say blame everyone else for things that may be my own fault. I have this down for day-to-day things, like dirty dishes or "missing" cars and other missing things. I plan to follow the ways of a pro when it comes to bike racing.
2 comments:
Number 2 FTW!
Number 2...maybe more explanation...essentially, whenever anything happens pass the blame to something else. So like when there is an issue of the economist, a half eaten sausage and ham pizza, and a milkshake in the living room, well it's obviously the vegetarian girlfriend who put it there. Or it was the cats who left the water boiling on the stove.
Or (when it comes to bike racing), it was bad luck that I flatted in a cross race, not good luck that I was able to shift to more than 2 gears, only flatted once, and was able to brake. (jonathan page seems to have an endless supply of blame and excuses for everything, even when he wins).
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