24HSS....

 

Aww yeah.

Well prepped. Team's well prepped. Bike's in great condition. New fork, ready to ride 100km baby.

I picked up a RockShox Reba RL TTI 29" yesterday to swap in for longer rides. I have the equipment now to swap to rigid when I feel like it. Eventually that fork will make its way onto my full suspension rig I'll build over the winter for ultra endurance races.

Went for a run earlier this week, felt super strong during the run. Calm and relaxed, good rhythm and breathing, and ended up doing 10km before realizing how far I had gotten. Not bad either, did 10K in under 50 min. Bugs are killing me in there... time for some OFF.

I think running is my new workout. Riding works, but if I'm under 20KM its not really a workout anymore, just a warmup. Running used to destroy my legs. Now they recover within a few hours and aren't sore anymore. Even after 10K.

Ajax Pickering Tri Club will have me doing 100KM rides on weekends, so I'll pick up my saddle time there along with what races I have and weekend rides in Durham. I'm going to start hitting the beach up for open water swimming when I have some time. I don't need to do much in the water, but its more of a "just get comfortable" thing.

Solstice is looking to be a pretty wet ride to be honest, I'm not 100% on it being completely enjoyable, but I'll bring extra socks, and my rain jacket just in case. Saturday is looking like a mixed bag. Hopefully the track is quick drying, otherwise its going to be a muddy sloppy mess.

Going to spend most of Friday packing up and getting my gear ready, then I'm either out Friday night, or Saturday morning. Haven't decided. Kinda want to get a pre ride in... we'll see. Race report for sure.

Also I came across a Rammstein song called "Ich Tu Dir Weh"

"I hurt you, 

I'm not sorry, 

It does you good, 

Hear how it screams" 

Thats the rough translation of the song.... and a pretty direct explanation of singlespeeding.