Blogging: Literary Powermeter?

Coming up with something for the blog every day presents quite a challenge. Sure, I could just put the training data down. That gets it over with and leaves more time to actually train. Damn, though, I don't have a power meter; sensory descriptions and boring HR statistics pale in comparison to spiffy power graphs. With those, you could all clearly see my "soft pedal your way to the podium" approach to winter training. Without them, here I sit, envious of the bloggers who don't need such gimmicks to fill up a few paragraphs. You know the ones I mean, the ones who can make you think, chuckle, and get excited all at the same time. Real mental stimulation for the drones sitting in front of a stupid screen trying to look like they're working - that's the ticket.

So how do a buy this ticket? Maybe by going out on long rides, all alone, focusing on ones thoughts, not staring at the power meter, contemplating what is all around, processing it all within, looking from all sides, not concluding, instead considering -- then something worthy -- brainworthy, blogworthy, would flow from the neurons and make the journey to the fingertips to magnetization and eventually on to pixelation. Might this build a greater strength, a strength which cannot be measured with a load cell? Nah, watts and data are all that matter. What was I thinking?

This weekend looks like group rides, but that first long solo is just up the road.

I got in an hour and a half on the MTB yesterday morning. Did a bit of "real" mountain biking too, i.e. stuff you couldn't ride a 'cross bike on. Just a run today. Be good.