Completism - Friday, August 16
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COMPLETISM
It's a bike ride.
Friday, August 16, 2024
Departing California Donuts #21 at 9pm
Yes, that's right, we are squeezing in a Completism on a Friday this month. That's tomorrow! The route on the docket this time was supposed to be the Square Town/Town Square ride, which is fun but also happens to be one that I have already ridden (as it was a redo of a route that was "mine" originally). And maybe we'll get back to that one because, like I said, it's a fun one. But not this time. Rather than re-redoing that ride, we will be re-redoing (or, indeed, re-covering) a ride from nearly 15 years ago, which I have never done and also happens to be quite a bit easier. Sean described the original cover-y recovery in the announcement for Passage #451 - Recovery like so:
There are many possible strategies for recovering from an epic ride like this past weekend's journey from Sylmar to Santa Monica via Simi Valley on Passage #450. Experts have various theories as to which is the most effective to restore performance. No doubt scientists somewhere, right now, have people riding stationery bicycles while hooked up to all manner of biometric sensors trying to figure it all out. We have read the current literature and decided to use the bad pun strategy: recovery by again doing a cover version of another ride's route.
The advantage of this strategy is that helps us set aside our usual shenanigans. Because, even if we intend to put together a nice, simple, relatively easy route, you just know we're going to stick a hill in there, or some trail, or at very least a fence to climb or something, right? We can't seem to help ourselves. So we're placing the ride in someone else's hands. Specifically, in this case, we're placing it in circa-September-2009 Midcity Misfixed's hands. And it will be a little straighter and flatter than usual, sticking largely to larger roads. But it will also still be a respectable 25+ miles and traveling through a nice variety of neighborhoods.
So, join us this week for a very re-cover-y ride!
(27 miles; relatively flat)
COMPLETISM
It's a bike ride.
Friday, August 16, 2024
Departing California Donuts #21 at 9pm
Yes, that's right, we are squeezing in a Completism on a Friday this month. That's tomorrow! The route on the docket this time was supposed to be the Square Town/Town Square ride, which is fun but also happens to be one that I have already ridden (as it was a redo of a route that was "mine" originally). And maybe we'll get back to that one because, like I said, it's a fun one. But not this time. Rather than re-redoing that ride, we will be re-redoing (or, indeed, re-covering) a ride from nearly 15 years ago, which I have never done and also happens to be quite a bit easier. Sean described the original cover-y recovery in the announcement for Passage #451 - Recovery like so:
There are many possible strategies for recovering from an epic ride like this past weekend's journey from Sylmar to Santa Monica via Simi Valley on Passage #450. Experts have various theories as to which is the most effective to restore performance. No doubt scientists somewhere, right now, have people riding stationery bicycles while hooked up to all manner of biometric sensors trying to figure it all out. We have read the current literature and decided to use the bad pun strategy: recovery by again doing a cover version of another ride's route.
The advantage of this strategy is that helps us set aside our usual shenanigans. Because, even if we intend to put together a nice, simple, relatively easy route, you just know we're going to stick a hill in there, or some trail, or at very least a fence to climb or something, right? We can't seem to help ourselves. So we're placing the ride in someone else's hands. Specifically, in this case, we're placing it in circa-September-2009 Midcity Misfixed's hands. And it will be a little straighter and flatter than usual, sticking largely to larger roads. But it will also still be a respectable 25+ miles and traveling through a nice variety of neighborhoods.
So, join us this week for a very re-cover-y ride!
(27 miles; relatively flat)
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