recipes and ride reports

...fool me twice, shame on me. The randonneuring version of this is perhaps that every ride that doesn't go to plan teaches a lesson. If you fail to learn that lession, that's on you.

Things I really need to never do AGAIN: fail to shake down the bike after doing work on it (or having work done, but this time it was all me). At least this ride was entirely for fun (or "fun", given the 11k of climbing over 187 miles) because I already have my 300k for PBP.

(The Florida brevet week went pretty well! 200/300/400 done, and I came home early to see my cousin run Boston after being sure on the 400 that I was not up for starting another big one with less than 24 hours of rest, especially since that 600k course was designed to be easy to bail on and I knew I would take one of those bailouts. I burnt myself out a little on riding, which is partly why I hadn't shaken the brevet bike down after putting it back together. But I had a great time last weekend on the Vermont 200k on the gravel bike; that was tough but a load of fun and clearly I had recovered my love of long days in the saddle.)

On the plus side, I can go for a ride with dphilli1 later today instead.