Beer Drinkers Appreciation Society (BDAS) 2023 Mentor Group - ALWAYS OPEN (Page 147)

I hear ya, brother.  Idiots have taken over the world.

Though, I find that my arguments with myself tend to devolve into non-stop insults.

Eric Idle is a legend.  "Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it." 

The original great comedy troupe.  The opening of Holy Grail is the funniest 45 minutes of cinematic comedy ever.  Unfortunately, they ran out of money and we had the 2nd half of the movie, which my daughter says should be replaced with the 2nd half of My Cousin Vinny which would be the greatest movie of all time.

And COME ON!!!  Fat Thor's got four more days to enjoy his off season before he starts complaining non-stop about an off-season cycling training plan posted on BT almost 15 years ago (which he will...don't you worry ). 

Dragged ourselves over to the hotel gym this morning...about 35 minutes combination bike/run then some core work and PT stuff.  Golf later today.  We're headed down to Jamestown Colony this morning to be cultured, or something like that. 

Hope all are having a great week!

Hey, all.  Happy Monday.  At least we're pretending it to be around Ravens land with another debacle of a loss. 

RIP Fat Thor...training plan starts this week with...and off day.  One more day of revelry!!!  The Plan has me riding four days a week, building out volume (mostly on the long Z2 ride) and intensity (some of the later VO2 max workouts are brutal).  Running is 2-3x/week just maintaining base (which I'll do a modified Daniels schedule for any interval work), and swimming is a little of this and that with an occasional Masters session thrown in.  Plenty of strength training.  Four test weeks (3, 7, 11, 16), which will be Zwift time trials or races (I push myself much harder racing than in self-guided FTP tests), a 500 yard swim TT, and either an indoor mini-sprint tri or a 5K outdoors.  First two weeks are "settle in" weeks so it shouldn't be too bad.  Looking forward to an actual bike build with a plan and very hard interval workouts which I haven't done in forever (even my virutal TdF's are kinda "do what ya like" builds).

@Gretchen:  Purl seems like a nut!!  Glad you'll have a running buddy again.  Wilbert is still my favorite.  What a great name.

@Andrew:  In our previous house in the city our Pain Cave was like 8' x 11' or so, which contained a shelving rack which our storage area plus a TV and the audio system for the room, my bike, a treadmill, and an old-school Stairmaster.  It also had the "brains" of the house with all of the utility shut-offs / breakers / cable splitters.  It got HOT in there getting at it on the bike.  The room I'm using now has over 200 sq. ft. of space (so almost 20 sq. meters if that's what you all use).

@Nicole:  good luck with all of the pre-hab and pre-surgery visits and tests it's exhausting just getting to the table.

@Nathalie:  how's "our" team doing??

Updated Pain Cave pictures:

That's the way the house came.  LOL

We have a carpet cleaner thingy that does a pretty good job...not like one of those truck-mount ones, but still gets a ton of dirt out.  Once we emptied the room we scrubbed and rinsed the hell out of it (to be honest, the amount of dirt it pulled out was kinda gross , so I'll definitely do it way more often). 

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And yes, Purl is definitely Gretchen's familiar.