04-11-2026 Ride

This started out as a frustrating day. Woke up after sleeping pretty well, no need to read 8n the night. Got ready for the Bisikleta bike ride, knowing there was a chance we would get rained on. It wasn't raining when I left the house and rode through the neighborhood. When I got to the 4S Ranch neighborhood I felt the first sprinkles. Up to Ralphs Ranch Rd and over to the 4S Target the new normal way from there. The sprinkles turned into a drizzle by the time I got there, but I was still hoping to ride, since the roads were dry. However, the consensus among the riders was not to ride. It was a shame, and the right decision. I was sad because Kamal showed up to ride, and he hadn't ridden with us in three months. Originally, I was going to stop at Mostra for coffee on the wet ride home, but I decided to skip it and make coffee when I got there. Got fairly wet on this short ride, not a fun one.

Avg speed = 14.6 mph. Total mileage = 9.6 mi

Avg power = 129 W. Weighted avg power = 158 W

Total elevation gain = 620'

Avg heartrate = 116 bpm

Relative Effort = 11

Training Load = 37

Intensity = 72%

https://www.strava.com/activities/18067594484

Had some coffee, cereal, and a banana when I got home. Ann went to Chuze, I just chilled, watched a little TV before doing some chores in the garage. Organized my bike supplies, swapped out the cleats on my black Sport cycling shoes, and replaced the right shifter battery. Then it was time for lunch. After lunch I went in the garage and glued the two PVC pieces together to raise the level of the line going into the front yard closer to the level of the line coming from the sprinkler valve. Had a quiet afternoon, watched a little TV and napped a couple of times, not sure why I was so tired. In the latter part of the afternoon I went out in the back yard and started gluing sections of the broken PVC line back together. I got it all the way to (I think) one longer piece of PVC pipe that needed to be glued in, when I realized that I had bought the wrong kind of 1" PVC pipe, it wasn't Schedule 40. Bummer! After dinner, I convinced Ann to go to CMR with me, buy the correct pipe, and have a Blizzard at DQ. We got home, and I had a quiet rest of the evening. Finished reading Zeke Faux's Number Go Up. It was kinda frustrating in that the whole crypto finance world is not adding any real value to our world, and there isn't a clear path to this fact changing any time soon. It's essentially a gambling space that's being used to exploit ignorant people. I started Children of Time, by Adrian Tchaikovsky, about a human ship searching for a new home after the devastation of Earth and its early space colonies, along with the interaction with a world seeded with an evolutionary acceleration virus and the rise of sentient spider creatures.