After filling my brown bins early before Christmas, then missing the day-early collection and realising I then had another month to wait for the next one, this week I was back to frantically shoving in more bits of dead apple tree detritus in a last-minute rush before leaving for work on Wednesday. But then I did remember to fill them again at the weekend, so one-all to the demons of procrastination.
The cat that lives on site at Adastral Park (who is rumoured to be called Scoop) obviously found the damp weather as tiresome as everyone else, and had sneaked into the office on Wednesday to sleep in the foyer. It’s not the first time he’s come in – someone had even provided a cat bed for him the other day – but it’s the first time I’ve seen him in there.
I’d decided I should probably just get a new rear wheel for my bike, as the cones are worn, it still wobbles after my attempts to clean and adjust the (non-sealed) bearings, and now a spoke looks to be broken. Then once I started looking I realised that a single speed rear wheel with a disk brake fitting is what you send someone out for once they’ve come back with the hen’s teeth you asked them for. I can see why in retrospect, and it explains why my bike has an eccentric bottom bracket to adjust the chain tension rather than horizontal dropouts. It is possible to get an appropriate hub though, which I can see leading to the purchase of more workshop equipment and me attempting to get into wheel building.
I’d decided I should probably just get a new rear wheel for my bike, as after over 13,000 miles the cones are worn, it still wobbles slightly after my attempts to clean and adjust the (non-sealed) bearings, and now a spoke seems to have broken too. Then once I started looking I realised that a single speed wheel with a disk brake fitting is what you send someone out to get once they’ve come back with the hen’s teeth you asked them for. I can see why in retrospect, and it explains why my bike has an eccentric bottom bracket to adjust the chain tension rather than horizontal dropouts. It turns out that it is possible to get an appropriate hub though, which I can see leading to the purchase of more workshop equipment and me attempting to get into wheel building, which may or may not end well.
Another 40 miles of running, with far too high a proportion of relatively hard efforts, with a club session on Tuesday, Thursday Tempo Ten, 13 miles on Sunday including a much quicker parkrun than I’d been intending, then the Pakenham cross country on Sunday, which was nowhere near as much of a quagmire as I’d been expecting. Must try to fit in some easy miles between the efforts next week!