Shortest day of the year! Not that I’d really know. I spent most of it, other than a trip to the local coffee shop and back, indoors and a big chunk of that riding the Zwift. One thing I learned Friday is that unlike IRL bicycling, your ride can get really screwed up if you’re halfway through a mountain climb and your wifi cuts out. I learned afterwards that potentially just staying on the ride might allow you to recover, but it seemed to kick me out. Given I was 1500’ into a 3400’ climb, that was a lot of climb to lose. Unfortunately, I made the mistake of queuing up a number of ride missions that came due simultaneously, so I found myself redoing that mountain climb (so 3400 + somewhere between 1000 and 1500), finishing the MAAP race of 23.1 miles and 1500’ feet of climb, doing the climb of the week (short, but 500’ of climb or so), and doing the race in the current racing set. Depending on whether you use Zwift or Zwiftpower, I placed second or first in that last one by pushing it up to 622 watts in the last seconds. For me, that’s some serious push. Anyway...that was somewhere near 7000’ of climb over the weekend. Even muddling along on some of it and stopping to go start dinner on the Alpe du Zwift (modeled after the Alpe du Huez), my legs are feeling a bit of ache.
The kid and I went bowling for dinner earlier in the week at Bryant Lake Bowl. Neither of us really racked up a good game. It’s been a while, and one of us didn’t bring their custom ball (not me, I gave mine away a LONG time ago). If you get to Bryant Lake, I strongly suggest having their pot roast. That was amazing. It was a single layered bowl of meat and mashed potatoes interspersed with carrots and squash and some thick custom gravy. Whoever is making that over there deserves a handshake.
And Thursday we celebrated our 32nd anniversary. Getting real close to that third of a century mark. We always celebrate either on the day, or near it, with a family dinner and going to the British Arrow awards at the Walker Art Center. Usually we head to Christo’s Greek restaurant before or after and this year wasn’t an exception. Gyros and saganaki. Opah! You can catch all the commercial awards here. The Walker lays them out by award category. It’s cool they post lists now – I used to have to look them up one at a time and make my own youtube list – but it’s also nice to spend an evening at the Walker taking a quick tour of the galleries on a free Thursday and doing a bit of people watching. Apparently we are bad at people watching, because we didn’t even notice some friends in the audience, and one of the two is like 6’6”. I suggest the Wilkinson videos. And this one is really funny if you worked for Thomson Reuters. Probably funny for other corporate monkeys as well...but it rings true for my cube days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XFXcBdXqKE&list=PLf3CA3DrDBWji-0LaFC32cpqzBE7SHkaQ&index=9.
Full Arrow list: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf3CA3DrDBWji-0LaFC32cpqzBE7SHkaQ
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