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Looking good!
You may now return to your regularly scheduled suffering.
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Shovel put away. Onto The Rookie after I change my kit.
Thanks to GvA for having minions at the street furniture on this ride—during Butter the other teams had to point out hazards to their teammates through the lava snow…
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3 down - only 10 to go - at least it’ll probably feel like it.
You got this. Apart from perhaps that tempo effort at the end of The Trick 
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The rookie is done. Not sure why I wouldn’t let my teammate take the lead on the last climb and draft off of him.
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Alrighty then. You’ve got yourself that contract, now it’s time to show us what you really have, if you dare, including: MORE SUF FACES!!!
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She seemed a little too happy when you beat her in the sprint. I’m guessing you’re gonna feel the pinch of those Vise Grips 
You’re also starting to look a little ragged. Must be doing it right! Carry on. Looks like you’re nearly half way there.
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Well, that was an adventure. When I was done refilling bottles I saw that the monitor was not getting a signal. The 10 minutes were almost up so I just used the laptop screen. A few minutes in I tried reconnecting—the video flashed on the monitor a few times, and then it not only stopped in the monitor but the Ant connection died. Fortunately I was able to reconnect it without getting off the bike (but that’s why I have a small block of zero watts).
I hate windows 10.
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Gaaaahhh!!!
Nothing must dull the suffering. Hang in there, you’ll have a good story for the minions when they read your application.
In the meantime, once you finish Power Station, you’ll have officially reached the halfway point. Then, NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS, DO NOT STOP PEDALLING. We can, almost, smell you coming
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Power station done. After I finished I restarted systm and now it knows I have cadence and heart rate devices.
I wonder if the lads ever did set off the speed camera…
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Crushing it! C’mon here’s two more apostrophes for your viewing pleasure.
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Forgot to take a picture of the screen at the end of Nine Hammers. Here’s another form of record.
In hammer 7, that was my teammate from the rookie who was cheating! He acted all innocent, but he’s no better an actor than either fellow at the team breakfast table…
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In the home stretch now. Gonna have to lower the drawbridge or whatever.
When you pick yourself up off the floor after you’ve done The Trick, please share what the SUF you were thinking in putting that at #10.
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Suffer, suffer, suffer! 10 times! Wow!
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Done!
Thanks to all of you for your encouragement today. And thanks to the Knights and Dames whose tips proved helpful (using chamois cream, having an ironing board to put stuff, downloading videos ahead of time, and others).
Why The Trick last?
I knew that when commenters mentioned it as brutal, I had chosen well. I wanted to sprint at the end. Also, even though the intermediate sprints lack quality, there is plenty of recover time. And tempo efforts are not so bad for me.
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Plus I got to beat Butter Boy (or his teammate, or at least someone from his team in a later year) at the line.
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