My guess is that it will be great and give me the ability to ride whenever I want. Whether it's raining out, snowing or way to hot or way too cold, hell maybe even those days when it's way too windy out and I don't feel like dealing with it.
For sure it will not be a 100% replacement for my outdoor ride sessions. They are second to none and are so relaxing and enjoyable for me. Especially the days that I go for 60, 80 or 100 miles. While they completely kick my ass, they are so rewarding when I get back home, review my data from the day and think about all of the little adventures that I had, all alone on my bike for 4 to 6 hours.
Sounds a little odd to those that do not cycle or run I am sure. But once you get into something like it there is no way to really explain the feeling of freedom or the reward from doing the rides. Probably no different than those that like to go sit in a boat or on the bank of a lake all day and fish.
Set-Up, Nope
So it arrived a little bit after 12 noon and I have not set it up yet and it's already pushing 7:00 PM. What the hell is all I can hear you say, as well as what I am saying to myself because I have waiting so long for it to finally be here.
Problem is, I wanted to get several important things done around the house, spend some time with Zoey as well as Cicely and also was planning to possibly take the road bike up to the shop to have them run a full tune-up on it. All said and done I managed to do just about everything that I wanted to with the exception of the road bike tune up.
They will not be able to take care of that until next Tuesday at the earliest because of the Thanksgiving holiday as well as some of the guys being off of work for the day at the bike shop - totally understand that.
I have been partially putting it off as well because the second that I go in the bike shop and see the new bikes that they have on the showroom floor or are able to get now that 2015 is just around the corner I will be drooling and ordering something that I should be waiting a little longer to get.
Okay 'waiting a little longer' is not really in the cards when it comes to something like this. You either pull the trigger or you don't. It's a lot of money either way and I need to get a new car this year as well so I may just drag my feet a little longer, dunno yet - but I know what I want to do and that is find what I want, get the tubeless tire setup, get the electronic shifting, possibly get the disk brakes unless they are noisy and squeaky as shxt like the mountain bike disks are and be a happy camper for the entire cycling season of 2015 and beyond.
Done
That will have to do it for this entry. I want to have some dinner and chill for a little while. I did still manage to get suckered in to doing some work once again today but it was nothing much and not that big of a deal so I don't mind. I just wish sometimes that certain people respected the fact that you are out of the office and whether your showing as in office and active or not respect the fact that they know you are not actually in the office.
In reality 99% of peers do respect it and would not ask anything of me and if they did it would be prefaced with something along the lines of "not important, read after the holiday" or something. But when you are pinged on instant message its a little more difficult to simply ignore someone. Then when you do help them and you get little to no replies you start to wonder why you helped in the first place and that you are just a chump.
Anyway, that is a soapbox for another day. At least I did manage to put in an order today for a nice backpack to carry my monster of a laptop back and forth to work in vs. trying to carry it, hope it does not get wet and that sort of thing.
Alright, for real this time I will end this entry and call it a day. Cicely is letting me be bad one more day and I am going to have Panda Express once again for dinner. Sure, we all know that it's not the best choice but its much better than a lot of the other choices out there. She is having sushi tonight and while that sounds good as well I am still a little burnt out on it.
Okay, enjoy your Tuesday and get ready for either a truncated day tomorrow if you get out of work early - I think my studio will be let out early to roll into the holiday. Otherwise hang in there until quitting time and if you are off on Friday as well enjoy the 4 day weekend. Don't be a chump on Black Friday either and respect your elders!
Photo: Nothing more than the box that my Wahoo came in. Well this is actually the box that has the Wahoo box inside of it. I have other other box that is the mat that goes underneath the trainer as well as the bike. Should be cool, maybe I will try and get a photo of it all setup and ready to ride on tomorrow morning.
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