{"id":3527,"date":"2011-05-29T09:52:37","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T15:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=3527"},"modified":"2011-05-29T09:52:37","modified_gmt":"2011-05-29T15:52:37","slug":"indecision-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=3527","title":{"rendered":"Indecision 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six days out from the Mohican 100, and I&#8217;m already feeling the pre-race crazies. At least 3 of the usual NUE badasses are at the TSE race, which runs from today until June 4th (same day as Mohican). This means that I&#8217;ll have the opportunity to scoop up some good NUE points if I can place well (I&#8217;m currently sitting <a href=\"https:\/\/spreadsheets.google.com\/spreadsheet\/ccc?key=0AlLkEeYRBJXTdHQxOUFMRUJ4VFBaZnpGYWppUVFveXc#\" target=\"_blank\">5th overall<\/a>). Not that I&#8217;m totally discounting the current entries into Mohican or anything- BrendaLee Simril will be there, and she&#8217;s finished ahead of me in both NUE races so far. Also, I&#8217;m sure Laureen, just a couple of points behind me, will be looking for the opportunity to strike as well.<\/p>\n<p>All of this, in addition to not knowing the course very well, leads to a little bit of singlespeeder apprehension. Last year, the course was a blur of mud and thunderstorm. I broke my rear brake lever off, then proceeded to bend and break my chain (two separate occurrences in two different spots on the chain). At the 3rd aid station, I said f*ckit and DNFd the race. Once I was home, I realized that I&#8217;d also cracked my Air9 in the process. In the meantime, I wasn&#8217;t paying attention to the course or giving singlespeeding it any thought.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the forecast is looking good for fast course conditions (though, now that I&#8217;ve said that &#8220;out loud,&#8221; the city of Loudonville is doomed to a tornado on Saturday). I&#8217;m still not totally sure about gear or suspension choice, and somewhere, in the back of my mind, there&#8217;s a tiny voice saying &#8220;take the geared bike!&#8221; since what I do remember about the course is a lot of short, steep hills that will undoubtedly put me on my feet if I choose a singlespeed gear that will get me through the flat parts of the course without major spinout.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;fear not though. I&#8217;m feeding that voice a tiny glass of STFU with a side of GTFO.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, the rule in the house on Friday was &#8220;no one under 30 can wear a shirt&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/matts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3528\" title=\"matts\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/matts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/matts.jpg 540w, http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/matts-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six days out from the Mohican 100, and I&#8217;m already feeling the pre-race crazies. At least 3 of the usual NUE badasses are at the TSE race, which runs from today until June 4th (same day as Mohican). This means that I&#8217;ll have the opportunity to scoop up some good NUE points if I can&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[3,7,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8Uq-UT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3529,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527\/revisions\/3529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}