02-27-2026 Ride/Swim

Slept fairly well and woke up/got up around 5:45. I read for a bit and eventually got up to get ready to meet Rob for coffee at Mostra. Rode over there on my bike, taking the normal way through the neighborhood and the straight shot to the 4S Ranch Town Center. He was already there, we ordered coffee and then sat outside while he told me about his surgery. The muscle twitching was gone right after the surgery but has come back, which is worrisome. He is in wait-and-see mode but has to be disappointed. He also told me a little about his work experience. He worked for Schlumberger, and I told him the connection with Pete and LeRoy Melcher. We also discussed living with, and influencing, our elderly parents. After the coffee I rode home the normal way via W Bernardo Dr.

Avg speed = 13.3 mph. Total mileage = 6.3 mi

Avg power = 124 W. Weighted avg power = 169 W

Total elevation gain = 540'

Avg heartrate = 114 bpm

Relative Effort = 8

Training Load = 31

Intensity = 77%

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I hung around the house for a while until David Garrett showed up to learn about how to take care of the cat while we are in Vietnam. That went fairly quickly, and I had a little free time before heading over to the WWC to meet Avi for a swim at 11:00. The pool was quite crowded, I guess that's not the time to go if you want the pool to yourself. We had lanes 5 and 6, and after a warm-up 50 we swam four 250s at tempo, on the 5:00 mark. I did pretty well here, probably could have strung two of them together for a sub-9:00 minute 500. I forgot to start my watch to record the workout, so here are the times, from video, of the four 250s: 4:42, 4:20, 4:24, 4:14. Elapsed swimming time was 17:18. I was pretty hungry after this, so I went home and finished off the cabbage rolls. In the afternoon I cleaned the kitchen, wet-mopped the downstairs, and made cookie dough for the sag stop on tomorrow's ride. Then I watched a little TV before working on the Fear Free training for SDHS. Throughout the day and into the evening I worked on trying to get my RAID drives functional again for our data storage. It was frustrating, ended up having to replace one of the 1 TB drives, but Windows is not well set up for this kind of thing. The eventual breakthrough was when I used the Intel Rapid Storage Technology app to set up the RAID 1 drives. That came in the evening, and I was pretty happy with having figured it out, albeit with a lot of false starts and frustration. The rest of the evening was pretty quiet, as I went through the logistics of the following day's bike ride to make sure all the key details were covered.