2012.42: 9/10 - 9/16

Sunday: Attended an informal sprint training day at Kissena.  See the (non)race report.  EDIT: I'll just write it here.  Nice temperatures, but a bit gusty.  Did my flying 200 in a 50x13, switched to 50x15 for the sprints.  My 200 time was the fastest of the day at 12.7s.  All the other times were really close, though in the low-mid 13s.  I forgot who I sprinted against in the first round, second round was the same guy and Kim, third was Kim, fourth was Chris.  We tried some trackstanding, but I still suck at doing it on the banking.  Another thing to work on.  All in all, it was a great time and some good learning.  I think we had 10 riders total.
Flying 200: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/224091883
Sprint 1: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/224091878
Sprint 2: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/224091875
Sprint 3: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/224091870
Sprint 4: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/224091862

Saturday: I decided on a whim to take to the dirt today.  I want to incorporate more mountain biking over this off-season and winter.  I figure it could help with my core and some different bike handling.  My lower back certainly felt tired by the time I was done.  I only did one loop of the blue square trail without any black diamonds.  This seemed hard enough for me on my SSMTB.  That, and it was another late start, so the sun was getting low.  Maybe next time I'll aim for a loop and a half or two loops.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/223070410
NP/IF/TSS: N/A

Friday: despite my best efforts to get a terrible night's sleep, I got up in time to head down to Bellport for the friday morning Kreb ride.  I probably would have just skipped it again, but I needed to get in touch with Charlie.  Fortunately he was there, so that was good.  There were a couple of sketchy riders again, which actually might have ended up saving my skin.  Heading down from yaphank toward bartlett the pace kept yo-yoing, so I let a gap form so I could stay steady.  Just then some car starts to pull out of a driveway and everybody in front of me locks up their brakes instead of just swerving around.  Suddenly I had nowhere to go and ran my front wheel into the cassette of the rider in front of me, pushing me into a bit of an endo.  I stayed up though, and once again was reminded why I don't bother with that ride much anymore.  The rest of the ride was pretty quiet.  Charlie and I did some sprints on the backroads at the end of the ride.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/222569372
NP/IF/TSS: 195W/0.845/262

Thursday: Another late start meant just enough time before dinner to head up into Old Field.  I originally was just going to hit west meadow beach, but I decided to add in the light house as well.  I made a conscious decision to not try for any Strava segments, though.  It was a lot of fun to leisurely ride around without any strava pressure.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/222569469
NP/IF/TSS: 192W/0.831/83

Wednesday: Got a late start as I took a nice long nap in the afternoon.  Decided to just ride around for the sake of riding around.  I hit up the usual beaches, saw Dan's father riding along the way.  I think I also saw the guy who almost hit me last year with his boat trailer.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/222063449
NP/IF/TSS: 195W/0.843/81

Tuesday: The final tuesday night race at T-town.  See the race report.

Monday: No riding.  I thought about it, but when I took my bike out to spin over to the bike shop, I noticed that my gears were slipping and my RD looked tweaked.  Turns out my dad knocked my bike over yesterday and didn't feel the need to tell me about it.  I re-aligned it in the evening.