What Beer Are You Drinking Now? #3956

Back from a gravel ride on this sunny Sunday. Managed to kiss the ground once and met some friends. 8)

Post bike ride beers are the best. Cheers!

 

Hey folks,
Sippin on an N/A Guinness Zero this morning, nursing my cramps and ego.

Yesterday did not go according to anyone's plan. Higher DNF (did not finish) rate than usual for Leadville 100, where in a good year half of all starters finish under 30 hours, but heat, dehydration, and then diarrhea leading to horrific, crippling abductor (???!!!) cramps took me out right after the turn-around in Winfield, about mile 50-51. Tried to rally with banana, salt tabs, electrolytes, nothing doing and I spent the next 2-3 hours just wracked with pain and more cramping. Never felt anything like it. Twice the cramping just knocked me right over and I couldn't stand for minutes... Oof.

So it is what it is - planned well, trained like hell, but sometimes things don't go to plan even when you're doing everything right (I drank 3 flasks every 3-4 hours which is a lot for me), stayed on top of food (350-400 cals an hour), made all cut-offs, but yeah.... poop happened (4 times).

Hope your day is better than mine, less sore, and a little less stupid.

UPSIDE? I can have beer today! I'll tune in later!

Cheers...

 

Dude, I know it didn't go as you planned but just by standing at the starting line of a 100 mile race, running, you won! The percentage of the population that has the mental stamina to even go there is miniscule. That race is a monster with about 14,000 feet vertical and a peak altitude of 12,600 at Hope Pass is no joke. Relax, recover and replan.....cheers!!!

 

Thanks Vann - yeah, it's tough. This one had my number early even WITH doing everything right yesterday. Never had cramping like that, just thrown-to-the side kind of pain. Glad I gave it a 2nd shot but not sure... that the LT100 is for me. 100k and below? Yeah... Cheers!

 

Your friends wouldn't have been the rolling stones, by any chance?? (Nyuk, nyuk! Sorry, bad joke!)

 

Extra Vanilla Double Milkshake from Tired Hands 9.3% and honestly this best in the style I have ever had. Cheers all.

 

G'day all!

I'm drinking the only Lambic that I've seen locally; we used to get quite a few. This is a 2014 bottling and is pretty darn amazing.

Prost!

 

Good day BAs! Off to a decent start to the day - My groundhog Brandine (formally the groundhog known as Brando) was out at 0745 eating apples in my back yard and the sun is sort of shining. Today will be spent cleaning turtle tanks and bottling beer as we prepare for our trip to New England so my wife can buy more fabric for her collection (The quilter with the most fabric when they die, WINS!) Back to VT, NH, ME, MA, NY (gotta drive through it), and maybe CT. I just gotta decide what books I'll be reading while I wait in the car - some Nabokov for sure, maybe some "James S. A. Corey", maybe some Komunyakaa, and Upton Sinclair. I just hope I can find some good beer along the way.

Today's New Breakfast Beer is Froggy's Seventh Heaven, a Rare Beer Club selection from Hoppin' Frog;



This is a "Belgian Strong Dark Ale" style, a bit of an unusual exploration from the Frog. To my taste, this follows the general pathway of the style, but isn't special. Rating 4.15, rDev -2.8%.
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Happy Sunday BA's! Thanks @The_Kriek_Freak for opening the bar in Greece. Those are beers you don't normally see here.
Your meal looks delicious @Shanex.
Sorry to hear about your race @eppCOS. You have done your best. Hope you recovering soon and enjoy some beers!

Just chilling with a Sierra Nevada Ruthless Rye IPA.



Cheers!

 

I've read five or six Expanse novels but it's been several years. I may have to pick them up again. I always enjoy that he doesn't ignore physics during space travel.

 

Very interesting. I never knew a lot of this. Thanks for posting it.

 

4 "Expanse" down, 5 to go (Unless the next two don't get better - less whiney!)

 

What a bummer. I hope you feel better soon.