Easy coffee ride today…73° in New England 
Well, at least Garmin thinks I’m 20% acclimated to the heat 
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That is a very nice part of Connecticut. My home state. Grew up about an hour SE of Simsbury. Toward the coast.
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First gravel ride this autumn. Had planned for a big 100k ride, testing out a fresh pair of Schwalbe G One RS 45mm.
It was a really beautiful sunny day, cold and windy, but enjoyable still.
The Schwalbe were really nice and fast on road and hard pack and relatively grippy through the corners.
They are not nearly the comfort level of Challenge tires though and despite me not testing them on super rough stuff, I got super unlucky:
After 41k the sidewall got slashed by a little stone, and it didn’t seal. The Dynaplug didn’t help either.
I had to cut the ride short with just a fragile tube inside…
Quite an upsetting experience. I understand punctures are always a thing of chance, but 41k of life from a €45 tire (+Dynaplug + sealant).
Had to complete my training on the turbo 
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I met some mates in a vilage west of Peterborough and headed mostly off road to Fineshade Woods for a coffee. One bloke peeled off just before the cafe as he had to get home and another two not long after the cafe stop but a mate and me continued round to the east side of Peterborough.
Its that time of year again and the bike was a bit mokkit when I got back.
Cleaned that up and I want to clean two road bikes but the threatened 
is here.
Oh and I maybe should send the new Raddler back its side walls are more Orange than the old one 
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41k ouch. My Friday flat was after 1450k. I had my KOM Cycling bacon kit, but not my DynaPlug. The DynaPlug is back in my bag.
This is starting to sound like our former Wed ride leader Rob, he would not allow anyone to say the word that cannot be said… Speaking of Rob
Strava - why so much drama on the relative effort? Was it really historic?
The preserve is full of wildlife, just riding on the road I saw turkeys, river otter, deer, and a lot of birds. Starting with ducks on the wing:
A couple weeks ago during intervals I did some Sandhill Cranes about 3 miles north of the preserve, but was doing a threshold interval and didn’t stop or try to pull out my camera. These ones were a little farther away, so another grainy zoom shot:
After seeing Rob for the first time in 2 years, I decided to end the ride along the former Wed night route:
Some tempo after 110 minutes as 1100kJ work, and athlete’s choice of four 1000+ watt 5-sec sprints after 2000kJ of work:
I was a little worried about magic gains not happening, because as @DarthShivious knows, 110 minutes of moving time is not enough to make the slow twitch tired! The sprints were my penance for not modifying the workout to do the tempo after 2.5 hours
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LOL - the magic number is 122.5 minutes. If you do 123 minutes, all the gains are ruined and you have to start over.
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Now you tell me!
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2.5 hrs of Z2 snow single track. On the descents, I rode in the deeper snow so I’d have to keep pedaling. @WindWarrior @DarthShivious Need to count toward that 122 min target
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Obviously all of you with your leaky tires are contagious because on my easy coffee ride today I noticed that my usual plush 32s felt, well, a little squishy. Sure enough the rear tire was losing air. We topped it up and rode home (about 6km) and I’ll see what it’s doing tomorrow. This was the new bike and I still don’t know for sure whether the shop installed it as a tubeless set up or not
17C in November = coffee ride even though I’m not yet 100% after a cold.
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the flat flu is going around this time of year!
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Climbed up to what I call Radio Tower 1. A mix of tarmac, tight switchbacks, and a gravel road.
There are 3 additional radio towers up north of SLC but the road becomes increasingly steep and less maintained… so I generally just stop at the first then hit Bonneville Shoreline Trail back down to City Creek.
But! Since it’s been raining, the BST is too muddy… so, gravel and asphalt back home.
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This looks like so much fun! Doing this is probably the only thing that makes me remotely ever want to see snow again
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Two hours of endurance tempo threshold recovery work.
Got my voting socks out a day early too. After decades of living in states where the elections are never close, I find myself in PA and actually excited to go in and pick some candidates.
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A short clip from part of a ride from my recent Las Vegas holiday.
Full Hoover Dam write up / video to follow. Suffice to say it was awesome 
A tough ride overall - weighted average power was up high (for me).
Was also a lot of fun trying to hold the wheel of a faster rider 
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Yep. Riding on snowy singletrack is fun. It’s engaging in a different way than normal MTB. There’s less technical challenges, but it takes a lot of attention to manage traction on the climbs, descents and turns.
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Big watts your putting out 
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Thanks @HLaB - had some PRs but still wasn’t enough to hold the wheel
I still need to do plenty of work on my Kg half of the W/Kg equation 
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Had to sit out a couple days after pulling a few muscles after our garage door spring broke. The house came with a steel core garage door, it weighs 300 or 400 lbs with handles near the floor. Sigh.
More Sandhill Cranes in the fields just before the city, no cropping on this pic:
Some 1-min intervals and other stuff, got a couple gold stars:
Haven’t done any 5-min vo2 efforts this year, so that was a surprise.
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Endurance spinning for 2.33 hours, aka 2 hours and 20 minutes 
Coming back into town, a handful of minutes before sunset with Mt Diablo on the left:
and across the road the Sandhill Cranes were battling for territory:
ended 42 minutes after sunset, which meant doing laps on neighborhood streets and creating end of ride paint splatter:
gotta get started earlier!
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