Take the Good, with the Meh.
It's like medicine. Or Physics. Good things come with Meh things. E=MC^2 and all that.
The Good - My Weight is down to 201'ish. My lowest in 3+ years of using my fancy scale. 200 is the Goal to float 198 to 202'ish. The Bad News....Holidays are coming.
https://theoatmeal.com/comics/diet_train - The Oatmeal is Truth.
Relationship with the SLF is going well, though she's had some up's and downs but she's resilient and future plans continue to be made. She met the X last weekend on a bike ride and it went well. One of the best parts of the last near 2 years was my brothers advice to get back out there via Bumble.
Cycling - Slowly climbing up from only 7 or 8 hours over the summer. I won't hit my 2019 level of 1800 miles, etc but I'm not going to be in the SUB-1K miles club either and planning to push a bit more into 2021.
Other Training - Running - Meh. I've slacked off, going to try and run on Fridays and eventually get to
"Bricking" in a month or by 2021. Also looking into restarting bodyweight workouts. Get Pumped Up.
Trumplestiltskin is a Loser. Biden wasn't really my 1st choice and neither was The Bernie. But 8 days of the week I would have chosen any functional human over Chester Cheeto.
Weather - Well we had an epic warm fall, yes it felt warm at points but it was awesome, the cold now is bring the MEH but it's all about proper layers. Get it figured out. Feet are my real pain point currently. Boots for anything sub 50 at this point if riding in low area's. A few area's I rode thru last night were in low 40's meaning with Ride Wind Chill it was really low 30's. No wonder my toes were semi frozen.
Corona - Dumb fucks who can't be reasonable and wear masks when outside there door and not eating...I'm a bit spoiled around eating but now realize the fun days of summer are gone and I'm not happy with eating in at all and with more crowded/enclosed outside dinning.
Stable Reduction - Sold the SIR9 after 6 or 7 years of it sitting in my basement. Sad but necessary. Any new MTB I want to have has to have a tapered steer tube. I'm debating weather to rebuild/upgrade Miss Daisy this spring or just replace it with something mid-level. Gotta get the roommate situation set 1st. SLOOOOOOW. Next up I'm selling the Fuji finally. It's sat with a broken rear wheel for a year. It's just to small/racer geo for me at this point. Any new road bike will be touring geometry and will be able to run 650x50 up to 700x38. Compact probably. Steel. Long time away honestly. For now the CX bike works. Maybe a more road'ish set of wheels at some point? Then I have to decide the fate of ye olde schwin cruiser I've wanted to restore for years. Maybe I'll minimally fix and upgrade it with an internal hub into a cruiser/townie. But more than likely I'll give it away to someone with real interest in resto or making it into a cruiser, etc. Crap reduction will continue to be my plan for 2021. Tools and junk storage I will reduce then I plan to redo my "workspace" in the basement.
Like everyone the big bummer is missing family this holiday. I was as usual planning for Xmas in FLA with maybe a mixed family Christmas with my family and SLF down there. 2021 Maybe. Hopefully the vaccine stuff gets normalcy in place by mid-late 2021, but I'm sort of worst-casing that 2022. UGH.
For now stay safe, wear masks, wash and sanitize. Be Smart. Get out and enjoy what you can when you can.
