Sweet desert smells

Off for an early saturday morning, kiddo has swim at 8:30 and I like a beating so I was up bright an early. Felt ok, under lights now for an hour, going to get longer every week unnitl we hit that solstice. Felt good on the Specialized, no personal records to prove it but it does feel good and I like it. I took the rear apart and greased everything and happy to say it is now squeak free! Still want to shortend the brake lines but I am super lazy so we will see when that will be done.

Swimming without water

Dude, so fricken hot, I am so sick of it............

New frame day!

Well I got the new 2022 timberjack warrantied frame all back running, pretty good turnaround time too, I got the frame Saturday and Monday built it all up and it was ready for dirt. Headed for hawes a little excited about riding it, not excited how stinking hot it was though. These rides are starting to hurt. Off the bat, the bike just feels ever so slightly different, more head angle sicne it's at 66 now and steeper seat tube. I did notice it felt really slow climbing, to be fair the specialized felt slow climbing on the first few rides. By the time I got around to the Alpe climb I was wiped again! This it the thirs thursday in a row where I bonk. Extremely unusual but now it's consistant, my heart beats out of my chest but it's only at 160 which is normal for that climb but I just feel it differently. My head begins to hurt etc..., I had to stop 2x on Alpe which is just so abnormal for me. By the time I top off feeling back to normal. Had to tighten the slack on the headset but everything else held together quite well. I do need to tension up the spokes and get a taller seatpost and insulate the rear brake housing since it's making a racket. Disapointing ride to fee so slow and not well but I bet it will grow on me.

Schweet

Well maybe I should have just name this one sweat, but it was sweet so why not combine them. Got this one on very little sleep and still feeling junky but enough in the tank to shred. The weather app read 85% humidity and when I left the house it was raining pretty hard. I was fine with a wet ride in the dark but when I got off the exit the rain surprisingly stopped and the ground was completely dry. The trails were dry and cranked out a big Saturday ride, nice to get my rides in despite feeling like turd. My fuse silver paint is pretty bright, as the sun brought in light it began to glow it was distracting in a way.

Lush

Well the kiddo got my cold so he was home from school Thursday, which was kinda nice cuase I could get out nice and early. Feeling a little better than yesterday, I got done what I wanted to. The landscape has come to life, it's spring all over again which I ma fine with.

Wuff

Got out for my Thursay rip, was reminded pretty quickly that I am still recovering from the cold, lungs were wheezy, and energy strted at 75% and quickly went to like 30% after 30 minutes I debated pulling the plug but charged on anyway. It was also hot and humid, I can't wait for winter!

Wild ride