Not quite

A few years ago, near what turned out to be the end of a VERY long day of driving my truck with a trailer, I felt a serious wobbling in the suspension while I was on the highway. I took the nearest off ramp and, before I reached the tollbooth, my rear driver's side wheel came off. I felt amazingly calm; even while the truck skidded along, I knew exactly how the rest of my day was going to go. I knew how things would turn out, even if that's not how I wanted them to turn out, and that certainty was pleasant.

Yesterday morning, my ankle was bothering me. At work, I decided that I wasn't going to run the 17km I needed to run that day to reach 72 for the week. In fact, I wasn't going to run at all. I wasn't even going to reach 10,000 steps for the day. I felt calm, and I looked into the 80/20 ironman training plan I had been intending to try for a while. So, this week, I'm going to do LTH tests for running, swimming, and biking, but otherwise this is going to be a cardio rest week for the most part.

I'm thinking of buying a bike trainer. I get in a fair bit of biking just with my commutes, but trying to stay in specific zones for specific time periods is dodgy a best if I bike on the road around here. Of course, that begs the question; what bike goes in the stand? Do I buy a bike just for the stand? Do I get a new wheel to use with the stand, and swap it out several times per week? Do I use my bike with the stand most or all of the time, and go back to commuting on my raleigh 20? Do I put my raleigh in the stand?

I didn't do a lot today. I gathered a bag of elderflowers on my way to get the week's groceries. After removing the stems and washing the flowers, I was left with about 1500mL of them (I need new batteries for my scale). Half of them went into the 1.5L of orange vodka I made. I'm going to let them soak for a week or so, then I'll strain it and have a few tests with simple syrup and honey before I settle on a liqueur recipe for bottling. The rest of the elderflowers went into a jug with 1.5L of regular vodka, for later mixing with simple syrup to become elderflower liqueur. I also bought 4 bags of lemons; I plan to make another 6L of limoncello to be bottled for aging.