Training Log Archive: biggins

setting controls in the morning before it got hot

Noon time run with lots of the csu posse, mostly with dad and alex. Out the fire road across the street, then a bushwhack down to another road back. Turns out it's hot out at noon.

Long drive from tahoe to yosemite, picking up alex and ed along the way, then a hike up yosemite falls from the valley, and across the rim to north dome. Never been over there before, sweet views directly into half dome.

Hiking around with mom and dad. Up TD in the morning, then down at emerald bay in the afternoon.

Long ride through prosser with Donatas. Back was feeling ok.

Waiting for donatas to show up for the run, so I went out for a dp along the bumpy paved road through prosser. Somehow I managed to bend a pole tip, not the metal part, but the plastic, into a perfect quarter circle sideways. It's not broken or cracked, just bent. Which obviously now makes it useless. Can't remember if that's the one I replaced a couple weeks ago.

So the back isn't really ready for running yet. Didn't hurt as long as I wasn't going too fast, but anytime I started taking long strides it got painful.

with Donatas and some bonus Lithuanians. I think the back axle is almost toast. Not broken yet, but the cassette has stopped free wheeling, which is usually the first sign it's bending.

Ride around prosser. I declare the back mostly sort of fixed. Bouncing down rocky singletrack hurts less than lying down in bed. Which is good as long as I never plan on sleeping.

Not sure what to call this one, maybe either the '40 U-bend' or the '40 Switchbacks'. The 40 part being the old highway over donner pass, and the map being some sweet open rock slabs on either side of the road. In some places fairly vertical, but others it's really good. Of the plethora of random spots I'm ADD mapping right now, this is probably the most awesome.

Got the automagical contour button working in ghettocad. Basically you hit the 'where am I' button, then the 'make me contours' button, then it downloads lots of stuff, thinks for a while and eats half your battery, then spits out an insta-basemap. Which is sweet.