When life feeds you lemons?

punch it in the dick

Oh dear reader,

Be careful what you wish for!

Yesterday I was lamenting the lack of dragons to slay.

Today?

I found one.

But first?

Let me digress a bit.

Today was new bike day.

Zeke got a new carbon fiber gravel riding bike so I now have purchased Zeke’s old bike.

New to him, new to me - new bike day - YAY!

This new bike is a drop bar gravel bike - for those of you who don’t ride all of the time, a ‘drop bar’ bike is what you would call a ten speed bike. The bars look like curly ram’s horns.

They’re pretty sketchy to ride over rough terrain. And their fast.

So, today Zeke and I hauled them out to go ride fast over rough terrain.

Most of it was more smooth that what I typically like to ride on, but on this bike with narrow tires and twitchy handling, the rough stuff was especially spicy.

Tired legs + a depleted adrenal gland = good times.

And my legs are tired.

I set personal best records for both 40km and 100km. I did 100k in less than 5 hours of rolling time and under 6 hours total time. Lunch was…