White trash neighbors at it again last night. Maybe 3 hours of sleep? I am le tired.
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White trash neighbors at it again last night. Maybe 3 hours of sleep? I am le tired.
High humidity and two days of yardwork in said humidity drained my motivation to get up and ride. Got an extra 2 hours of sleep instead.
ride time.
Hoping more espresso gets me moving for the day.
So how bad would I screw up my "tennis elbow" if I went for a really mild trail ride - like I'm talking flat green stacked loops with the odd log over and some roots for tech?
Been over two weeks since I have been on two wheels and I'm seriously jonesing.
Been over two weeks since I have been on two wheels and I'm seriously jonesing.
Hey LOL LMAO! 
I ran 21 miles this morning. A nice and easy 7:35 pace. I'm going to hit the fancy grocery store now, depleted and hungry, to see what kind of damage I can do.
I ran 21 miles this morning. A nice and easy 7:35 pace. I'm going to hit the fancy grocery store now, depleted and hungry, to see what kind of damage I can do.
Don’t do it !So how bad would I screw up my "tennis elbow" if I went for a really mild trail ride - like I'm talking flat green stacked loops with the odd log over and some roots for tech?
Been over two weeks since I have been on two wheels and I'm seriously jonesing.
It sucks, but the more you rest it the sooner you can get back to real riding.
Smoke outside says I probably shouldn't ride...
Thankfully Washington has largely been spared from the wild fires so far this year. Severa days of rain last week will hopefully maintain that situation.
I plowed through the smoke with a buddy who was on a borrowed e-bike. 3,200 e-assisted vert, enough to wear me out and discharge the 504 Wh pack completely, respectively. I’d have to bring both packs along and swap to cope with your daily rides.
On our ride today, watched an overweight male in an orange shirt dump his eBike on a flat straight section of trail.
Aaand kid barfed on the way to friend's house for dinner. FTMFL
Guess we're in quarantine for the 1st couple weeks of school...
Guess we're in quarantine for the 1st couple weeks of school...
No rides at all the weekend, Bay Area is on fire, so I had a fire sale of my own. Sold a brand new pair of Mavic EX823 rims I've had sitting around for 10 years, Stylo cranks and a set of 29'er wheels. Good times!
8 mile trail ride whooped me after not riding for a month. lots of choppy up n down. plus i forgot to put in my contacts before i left so everything was blurry. 
vegetated around the house this afternoon. wife went to durham to take her mom to cataract surgery tomorrow. so chillin with the boys. had pork scallopine, roasted potatoes, and sauteed okra for dinner ftw.
vegetated around the house this afternoon. wife went to durham to take her mom to cataract surgery tomorrow. so chillin with the boys. had pork scallopine, roasted potatoes, and sauteed okra for dinner ftw.
I wore my blue shirt today, thank you very muchDid you ride with Toshi???
Raccoon?
My friend Amy had a house warming party. Her Mom made Ribs. I wasn't expecting them to be all that good. Beef Ribs and Pork Ribs. Best I ever had. Never been a beef rib fan. All the fixins. Served dry. Didn't lift a finger. Just showed up.
The horse, doggies and us survived 765 miles of driving and made it to Ogalala Nebraska for the night. Drive to salt lake City Utah tomorrow then home..maybe... the SCU lightning fire complex evacuation zone is now less than a mile from my house in Livermore.
Second ride in two months. I too climbed 3200' sans e-bike and it was glorious. Would have done more but was running out of daylight.
Horseshoe. We didn't fuck around with that amateur, "but we have kids with us" shit. Told Haley to bring her ski poles and to fill her Camelback, because she'd probably want them.
But in all seriousness, Racoon is a 2.5 mile loop with 400' elevation; Horseshoe is a 3.6 mile out and back and 900' elevation (but we went a bit further).
I'd offer to meet you guys for coffee as you blow through Denver, but you have priorities.
Anybody who can make a run in to get necessary documents, pictures, etc?
One elementary in DougCo already has all the 6th graders quarantined for 2 weeks. E-learning for HS has been delayed 2 weeks for the district because they don't have enough teachers. And Jeffco has teachers quitting/retiring/taking sabatical at unprecedentedly high rates...
I'm going to lose my bet for the over of 6-weeks before shit gets shut down.
unless it's a private school (which have fewer kids and more resources, generally) they're all getting shut the fuck down unless the numbers are seriously repressed. kids will spread the hell outta the disease, if not to themselves, then to their teachers. so many (mine included) have no self control. especially kids from middle school on down. even a lot of private school will cave, methinks. give it a week or three. our kids are full remote through 10/15, and I guarantee that it'll be through the new year at least. i've mentally prepared myself for being at home with these two little fuckers for the entire year.
When we did Raccoon it turned out to be marked poorly/incorrectly. 2.5 was definitely not true per GPS. We did over 4 miles, iirc.
Yeah. Wifey needs to prepare for it too.
Since the colleges will likely get shut down too, we're tempted to get together with a few other families in our immediate social circle and hire someone to work as their teacher's aide. Keep them working on assignments, handle lunch and snacks, do recess, etc. We've figured that with 3-4 other families (4-5 kids) we can get someone for $30/day per kid. It isn't cheap, but it might be our only option to be able to work and keep the kids doing school from home.
The school district is super against it, because apparently some families are just hiring teachers at $60k/yr rates between a few close family groups to split the costs. Just running the numbers, us and our two closest friend families have 1, 2, 3, 4, and 4 graders. At $60k, that's $200/WK per kid. If we add the next neighbor whose 3rd grader is in Haley's class, then it's $170/kid/wk. It's more than I want to spend (by all of it), but I could at least drop it into a Coverdell to offset some of it for tax purposes as a tutor.
And... Adding to the racial and social division of education by wealth and income...
yeah. wife's talked about the splitting tutors thing...but i recognize we're much better off than most and she and i can both work from home and manage/supervise our 5th/9th grader and mostly get our own shit done. i am not down with paying someone else to babysit if we both have to be here anyway. hell, we did it for 3 months in the spring and it looks like the remote learning will be more intensive/engaging this fall. we'll see how it goes. i'm not gonna stress about our way above average intelligence kids "falling behind." no matter what happens, they have many advantages and they're not.
Too bad we are staying on 80 all the way home from here. It's Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada California
Haley falls into the same category and without other kids in her same group, we struggle to get her to do more than the normal class. We also have social issues with her when she doesn't get to see other kids beyond our 3 other immediate families.
