Went for a time trial ride, solo, in the morning, leaving later because of the start of DST. None of the others were available to ride. I did make one modification to the route, riding through the neighborhood around Lomica Dr and coming out to Pomerado Rd via Higa Pl. No intention to push the pace hard, and I could definitely feel the effects of the previous day's ride in my legs. That ride had a lot more elevation gain, at high effort, than I've ridden in a while. The day was a nice one for riding, a little cool but warm enough for me to take my jacket off about halfway through the ride.
Avg speed = 15.9 mph. Total mileage = 18.0 mi
Avg power = 143 W. Weighted avg power = 166 W
Total elevation gain = 1040'
Avg heartrate = 120 bpm (Coospo), 130 bpm (Fitbit)
In the afternoon, we went over to Forgotten Barrel Winery (old Ferrara Winery site), bought a bottle of wine, and listened to a four-piece string band play music. They were decent. For me, drinking half a bottle of wine over the course of an hour and a half is too much. I was still a little buzzed when we left, which isn't a good thing. Drove over to Holiday Wines to get some beer for a beer tasting at Avi's house on Tuesday night, but they were closed. So we went to BevMo and got some there.
I need to catch up on books I've read recently. I read a short novel, The Graveyard Shift, by Jack Higgins (which is a pseudonym for Harry Patterson) about a rich police detective, Nick Miller, who tracks down a murderer, who happens to be a woman he knew when they were both growing up in a middle class neighborhood. He thought they were soulmates until he determined that she had murdered an ex-convict from the same neighborhood who had just gotten out of jail. It was okay, a typical British detective novel but a little dated in its treatment of the female characters. Then I just started Chaos Kings, by Scott Patterson, which is about the group of traders who look to profit from volatility and the essentially unstable elements of financial markets. It focuses on a guy, Mark Spitznagel, who started up a fund with Nassim Nicholas Taleb (author of The Black Swan) to try and take advantage of those times when markets take a sharp downward turn. The essential premise is that these downturns can easily and quickly wipe out the incremental gains made over a number of years. It's worth bringing this concept back to Brett (I have mentioned it to him in the past) and seeing whether there are funds like Spitznagel's Universa hedge fund that we could put a little bit of money into.
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