What is the deal this week?

Get hit by a van. (not hurt)
Some moron bike commuter decides to play chicken/shoulder checks me on the waterfront bike path.
Get buzzed on Skyline by an SUV, I give him the finger and he tries to squeeze me off the road a few times. I call 911 and report his plates.
Every third person in the last few days decides to yell at me for every stop sign or red light I coast through.

And, I get a flat on a training ride. What?!

This shit never happens to me. I am the slowest, most agreeable bike commuter out there. I yield to cars and ped traffic all day long. I smile and wave to pissed off farmers while training on their back roads. Mostly they wave back. That is good for cycling right?

The weather got nice here in raintown for a few days last week and the bike traffic on the roads jumped tenfold. I think the rapid jump in the number of cyclists out there has aggravated the non bike populace. They are frakking everywhere! I almost got tagged by a cyclist last night while riding home; he blew the stop sign and then yelled at me!

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“The bike is like a beautiful woman. To be appreciated everyday.”

Remember the Cinelli Alter stem? That shit was amazing. Underlying sexism and heterosexism in cycling. Shit, it is not even underlying. It is kinda funny, you watch that video and it just seems like a boys club. Go crazy! Throwing shit around in hotel rooms, yanking each others pants off. Dude, I’m not gay or anything. I’m just saying.

Alec Baldwin said: Getting married lets everyone know you are not a homo and at least one person in the world can stand you.

I’m off to Mexico for a week next week. Going to watch Pete go Marlin fishing.

I care about stuff like this.

The USA would never follow suit (maybe Canaduh would) but, international attention and genderqueer media clarity is great.

Reads like it may only be legislation for: “those not healthy enough to go through surgery”.

The question remains: what about those who cannot afford it?

Molly Cameron: un fucking employable.

I’ve had chronic knee pain for as long as I have been riding bikes. Not a lot to say about it, I hurt after a couple hours on the bike. Big gears, small gears, road, mountain, cross. Whatever. The knees ache and eventually I cannot pedal without feeling like I am screwing them up.

Enough about that.

I’ve scheduled an appointment with an Orthopedist. And I’m going to dial in my fit.

I started writing this post weeks ago, I was trying to put in bigger blocks of riding. 20+ hours a week. And the knees were not co-operating. It was kinda depressing, I was shifting my life around to make more time to train but my body was not having any of it. Makes it feel futile. The training and energy put in to cycling.

“How can I progress if I cannot push my body any further?” I ask myself.