Fuck 'em. What do they know?

BIKE 20 miles in 1:23-ish, 3x TGP with BE
COMMUTE 2 miles

Fall equinox today at 2:50am! And I started it out with a bike ride, yeah I know they said not to ride a bike, but like the title of the post says. Fuck em. All of them.

The bike was slow and cautious, a 19:43 for the first loop in the dark (sunrise 6:49am). We improved to 18:03 and 16:57 for the second and third loops.

BE described the Cap Ex Tri capabilities exercise and gave a race report. I talked a bit on the hip recovery but when it went into "why not try swimming" and "what about weight training" I checked out. I totally agree, but I don't find those enjoyable and I'm already in a pissy mood. Why add to it?

While I'm waiting for the Connect program to transfer my ride to Training Peaks, I see October 1st in the calendar. Ugh.

It was too dark to look at the HR. Besides I don't care.

Next up a pretty girl born this morning! This is a chrysalis that I broke off the cremaster, and I could only hope that the internets weren't lying when they said it would be OK. She was. Born during my shower and I captured in on the old iphone with a time lapse video. She was prepping on the deck when I left this morning. There were 4-5 adults fluttering around the yard, and I found another teeny caterpillar, who didn't look too good. It's in my "nursery" and I'll do what I can. I think I have 12-ish caterpillars and 8 chrysalides currently. Long way to go for these guys to fly, so they'd better hurry up and butterfly.

Then a follow up appointment at the orthopedics clinic. I spend the time waiting in the room thinking that I might bike more often, given that today's ride didn't seem to cause much pain at all. She comes in, and it's immediately Problem This and Problem That. I explain the 2014 fall-out of stress and nutrition. I'd rather see the MRI images (and when I ask, I get to -- the bone is WHITE, as in not good) but then she just gets back to my nutrition, my "over training", and how I should see a sports psychologist to investigate why I feel the need to train so much.

WHAT THE FUCK. I enjoy training. I like to challenge myself. (she doesn't know about this year's race goals). I like the social aspect. I get out into nature.

To her this is a pathology. So I'm done with her on this. She doesn't get it. She said I should talk to Avery because he'll understand. LOL, yup he will.