Today I start feeling the impression that I’m beginning to wrap my arms around a new project at work. I’ve been working at it for a few days now, so that’s good timing. We’re also bringing two new studios online. And everything is up in the air with Covid.
And we haven’t even got the IUSTV folks back into their productions yet. They’ll start next week, 50-plus days in various studios and 80-or-more shows and a handful of podcasts and all of the live sports and … I probably shouldn’t be this tired in mid-January. I should definitely be this excited.
I also left the office mostly on time today, which was great, because I got to the house and hopped on the bicycle.
Here is my avatar riding underwater.
And look! I’ve never noticed this mountain in the background before. That’s not where we were headed today, but I have been thinking about going uphill, so that was a nice view.
Since I mentioned riding through the volcano in Watopia earlier this week, I figured I should do that again, and actually get a photo.
I set a new PR on the volcano climb, despite getting distracted, losing my rhythm and falling apart in the last 100 meters before the top of the climb.
At the end of each ride you get a little wattage report. They compare your best output over five seconds, one minute, five minutes and 20 minutes to your all time bests. In the five and 20 minute segments this was one of my better rides.
And now I want to start doing laps up the volcano. And returning to the bigger ascents on Zwift.
But first I need to upgrade my bike shoes. My dear sweet old, cheap, Bonties — pictured here when they were still almost new — are starting to hurt my feet.
More than six years and many thousands of miles. Suddenly I don’t feel so bad about that.
My feet do, though.
OK, this weekend: shoe shopping!
