Fragments

This weekend I intended to grind my way through the Suicide 6 at Harriet Hollister. Due to a number of reasons (excuses?) I did not - and so ends another summer season of mountain bike racing with only one event and no forays into some of the endurance challenges. Ah, well, maybe next year.

Things have been a bit hectic, part of what contributed to my foregoing the race today. I haven't had a chance (or made the time) to get out for a ride, resulting in too many incomplete thoughts and partially formed hypotheses banging around in my melon. It seems that without a brain bucket to keep them in, I lose focus on these, which prevents me from moving on to more productive places. This weekend I will be spending some time canoeing in Algonquin Provincial Park with friends. Maybe this will present the opportunity for some lucidity to my current cadre of thoughts amidst the call of loons and reflections of northern lights.