I made snacks and lunch for the rest of the week and actually did a recovery ride and just looking at this every time I don’t feel motivated to do something that is good for me—super effective motivation cure

def the worst thing about summer is when you want to go to bed at 8pm but it's still light out

Thinking a lot about my friend whose only social media account is Strava. Smart move.

Cannot believe I haven’t put truffle gouda in my soft scrambled eggs before

Capping off this week with a century. Problems for forever; lake for now

Committed to redoing C&O and GAP in the stupid direction again this August. Think this is all the motivation I’m gonna need this summer.

I am not capable of the cognitive dissonance required to be an HR professional

Why do we build these car trails if no one uses them?

PBS documentaries go so hard. I watched "Natchez" this week which is part of the Independent Lens series; definitely recommend

but fr rideshare is a mess these days? they are so unreliable now, unpredictable wait times and I got straight up ghosted. airport rides at bad times was like my main use case but now I don't really trust them for high stakes situations. a host of social ills for like 5 years of cheaper taxi rides.

Yesterday I sprinted 2x on the same ride hard enough to trigger the puking zone of HR and today I feel fine??

Now thinking about which camping should be inaugural camping on new bike. It's probably either Burnidge or Blackwell, both of of them punch above their weight in quality of campsite for proximity to Chicago

If you’re worried about if your sealant is dried up, it’s probably time to refresh anyway

Boy do I sure love blowing up the coffee ride with sprinting

i've just been informed that NYT wrote about gravel biking today which means thank god it's finally over

Today is my 14 year Chicago anniversary Thinking about celebrating with a North Branch Trail ride, the thing that convinced me that I could be totally happy living in a city even as someone who values being in nature.

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

With its jubilant message and stomping pastoral energy, "Surrounded" by Psychiatrist & 20 Depressed People may be the millennial anthem of the summer

Did a 🌶️ ride today and I honestly didn’t think I could still ride that fast so very pleasantly surprised. I probably can ride 22-25 sitting in and not get dropped and it’s only May 🙀 I thought I couldn’t go over 18 if I was pulling but just proved myself wrong

Amazing how 30 years later, even just thinking about taking the train somewhere can get Leann Rimes’ “One Way Ticket” stuck in my head

As a cyclist, it’s really important to have a ripped ass. Really great for climbing

If you have small friends in the greater Chicago region, I will be selling my 42 surly cross check in the next month. It's not clapped out, it has nice parts, I am just upgrading. Currently built out to be very reliable touring bike, it's a cross check, you can do whatever on it

I don’t have children, I have a fleet of bicycles and two laaaaarge cats

Friends are great because they’ll convince you it’s a bad idea not to buy the ti bike frame right now

Did not know until I was listening to Kacey Musgraves’ “Everybody Wants to Be a Cowboy” how much I needed a song that perfectly encapsulates why I get annoyed about things like city people extolling the virtues of canning and urban chickens

Politico is almost (?) literally just Highlights for Children for people who have graduated from the pediatric waiting room and now send Outlook invites for a living

Does anyone have opinions on the least terrible backpacking food? When I solo camp, packing in normal food or making a grocery run when I get there is suboptimal so willing to try this once

My job isn’t actually hard but it has been really endlessly annoying lately and that is making it feel hard

Problems for forever Problems for now

Can’t decide if I hate the Luke Combs cover of “Fast Car” unfairly too much or too charitably not enough but I just heard Roosevelt high school playing it and got mad

They're really angling to blame the victim when someone gets run over by one of these

It's April 23, thinking about this Bush Era video that still hits the same. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXqm...

The persistent paranoia about there being other spiders everywhere after you smoosh a big boi

Yes.

I like my climbs like I like milk--2%, 1% if available

I like to think that I at least slightly make up for being annoying about 2-3mm differences in my bike fit by referring literally everyone I talk to to the person who does my fits.

Enjoy some lizard content

The ocean is really doing its thing today

Current Miami status: Eating sushi looking at a Scrooge McDuck mural while 4 Non Blondes’ “What’s Up” plays

I feel really bad for the rental bike mechanic. Seemed frazzled generally and I am the person who taught her how to swap pedals

i did call in a back end developer after hours today but i flat out refused to call in a front end developer for after hours work to align the width of buttons in the mini cart FEDmergency does not exist, talk to us in the am (when timezone is in PDT favor)

I am the whipped cream martyr

Reminder to wish @lefttheprairie.bsky.social a happy birthday today

Me too bro

Relatable content

Bringing up Barthes again at work. I shouldn’t be allowed

Name that Bridge Cycling Edition

That’ll do for a lake

Me and @illinoisdot.bsky.social

when you ride alone you can spend 30 miles thinking about which part of your bike is slightly off adjustment and which parts of your aging body are suffering for it