Commuting day

Wrapping up the hard part of the pre-race week with the trek in and back today. I was going to write up this big long thing this morning because I was all juiced with my ride in, but now my lack of sleep is setting in so let's just sum it up by saying it was fast and fun. Primarily green lights and elapsed time was down. Ride home may not be so forgiving with the weather moving in. We shall find out.

Bad week for the bikes... brought the race rig in for a tuneup and ended up having to replace the carbon seatpost because it was cracked. Then I got it home last night and put it on the trainer (no time to go out in the daylight) and found out that I and the shop had missed the fact that the BB was loose or something. Creaks when climbing and if you tourqued the arms around you could see it moving a little. Swapped the wheel on the commuter and put that on the trainer to finish the workout and realized the whole steering stack was loose so things were rattling (should have checked this earlier because I thought I was getting some weirdness going over the roots on the bike path). Got that all tightened up so it's happy again. Let's hope things go right with the race bike... what was that rule about never doing work right before a race? Must get out on it tomorrow night and/or Friday to be sure. If Sturbridge were going unusually well and I had a mechanical I would not at all be pleased. I really wish I had more time to work on my bikes myself, but I just have to rely on the shop/sponsor or the things would be coming apart under me when I didn't maintain them. Gotta make the tradeoffs...

Need food...