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Not a big Shevchenko fan but she looks good at the range. Props to the camera man when she holders her weapon :lol:

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Zhang looks like a dude in this video. Must be hitting the testosterone hard to get to 125.

Did a gravel race yesterday. Have historically done the 60ish mile route (65-67 miles) but after realizing I hate riding gravel that long I did the 30ish mile route last year on the single speed. Decided to bring my normal gravel bike this year with gears and everything. Not much competition in the 30ish (37 miles) group with around 50 rides in the various age/gender groups. Had 3 athletes from our mountain bike team compete in the 30 mile and one other coach. One athlete sagged back early at mile 3 after a big hill climb. I tried to pull him back to the group who quickly went out of sight but he dropped off my wheel so I tried to bridge the gap before they hit the road section at mile 6.5. There were 4 in that lead group and I know if they hit the road before I catch up I'll never be able to catch them. I slowly started reeling them in but I was still a couple of hundred yards off their tail when they hit the road and I never saw the group again. I was pushing hard threshold so I dropped back down to a nice tempo pace and went solo. The 2nd longer road section after the aid station at mile 20 is 5 miles of brutal just enough false flat soul sucking elevation gain you mentally think you should be going faster and you are riding head first into the prevailing wind. With a good line of riders you can easily do 18-19mph in this section but I was having to push hard threshold just to keep it at 14-15 solo.

Mile 30 had my right calf want to cramp. I think I was pedaling oddly the first 30 miles because I started the day with a bit of pain in my right hip and I was compensating trying to protect my hip.

4 in the lead group finished at 2:08. I finished at 2:24. The rest of the field started tricking in around 2:35.

3 drank 2.5 955ml water bottles
13 "Fruit Slice" gummies I lightly misted with water and sprinkled mortons light salt on to make electrolyte gummies. 12g of carbs each. for 156g of carbs
2 hammers gel packs with 25g of caffeine and 22g of carbs each.

1st of 5 in my 40-49 age group. 5th out of 50. 198g of carbs total 50g of caffeine and 2.4l of water.

Geographically Auburn sort of sits right in the middle of UA, UGa, and UF. You don't necessarily have to get the top 5 players out of each of those regions to build a pretty nice team. Historically Auburn would pluck a handful of top 20 players sprinkle in one or two big recruiting wins in there and build a nice competitive team. NiL has changed the landscape so it's about who can afford the highest payroll. Just not sure Auburn can compete in this landscape in football. School and fanbase size is just too small compared to the much larger state schools.

Only thing I remember about this movie was liking the movie itself and also liking the score.

For me it started in the mid to late 30's. Always loved spicy foods. My a-hole begs to differ though. Interesting enough how "hot" the spicy is at my mouth doesn't always match the exit spice and doesn't always trigger. Sometimes I will eat something really hot and no effect. Sometimes I will eat something very mildly spicy and it burns coming out more than coming in. I could probably sit down and figure out exactly what spice sets me off but I've been too lazy. I do think cayenne seems to effect me more than a habanero or jalapeno, or whatever Koreans use.

Have chat GPT draw up a fake legal sounding cease and desist letter threatening legal action and mail it certified to their house.

It's ~28lbs in that picture. With the fork swap and crank swap and carbon bars and It's sitting at 26.8lbs as of last night. Will need new pictures.

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That’s a lot of beef up front for a hard tail. I’m rocking a 120mm Sid on my Ti SS.

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My son and I played parts roulette last night. He has set up his Druid for Enduro but he wanted to put it on a diet to get it to more trail bike weight. Started at 34.8lbs and we got it down to 32.5, part of which was moving that 36 to his bike. Moved the Mattoc over to my Nimble 9. The frame is designed for 140-160mm of travel and I had the 36 at 150. I'll try the Mattoc at 140 but I can stretch it to 150. Saved me 350 grams which should help offset the weight of the aero bars I want to put on it.

The fact that OU has to put in illegal plays to beat a team like Auburn? Says a lot about the state of OU football. Not just the sub one but the obvious pick play at the end of the half.

There is a trailer park that backs up to the far corner of the park. Knowing the roads pretty well, for someone without a vehicle to casually walk into the park and commit a murder I would guess that as the most likely place of entry. There are people with questionable legal residence status who lives in that trailer park. If you want to try to connect some dots...