All the heavy moving is done & the weather was excellent — just enough wind & low humidity. Tibi Dabo probably needs a new chain but she held a good clip out there.

Looking forward to a good October.

Mostly to test the leg on back-to-back rides. The odd gap or absence or lacuna or hole is still there but I can manage it better than before.

Hopefully the heat & pollen will break soon.

Niece nearly moved in so I took some Aurora Time Witt the heat in the 100s. Aurora after Hector is a real slog but worth it.

Over 7 mikes in 20 minutes at pace & cooling till 11 miles in 35 minutes. There was a time when Aurora hurt my knees ever so slightly but no longer.

Did a short one inside today amid some final house paperwork. 14.3 in 45 minutes. The leg improves well.

So naturally on the reverse-side of good news, Vern the Cat died today in his sleep. One Special Cat.

Never to be replaced — the Lap Panther

The Music City Grand Prix course stepped all over my regular Saturday route but the detour was interesting anyway. Once in the park I saw one baby Eastern Box Tortoise and 2 baby Raccoons. The sprinting went well.

I kind of accidentally worked in some Sunday sprinting.

Houses finally sold & bought so I had time for some indoor miles. 10 in 30 minutes; leg feels fine but I need regular work to integrate around the hole in my stroke.

The weird balance-ball stuff is actually very helpful & it’s more practical to resist with an awkward ball than with a kettlebell or a plate. I don’t think it’s merely psychological either.

Formula Race Prep for the next 3 days then the Event so my route will change accordingly outside.

She’s a beast & wonderfully awkwardly weighted. I reckon I’ll call her Cassandra

House selling & house buying ain’t for the meek, but what done is nearly done.

No time even to put on the Lycra so I stayed indoors. I need to make a better habit of this.

AirBikes are very demanding but also tremendous fun

9.3 miles in 30 minutes.

My niece is here to say so finding a house shoves other stuff out of the way. The hunt today tho began at 12:30 so I managed to get in a good ride.

It was humid & a bit windy; the steel & concrete barricades are already up for Nashville’s Formula 1 Debut and oddly enough they kept the traffic out of the right lane out of awe or something. I had no car-interactions at all.

Very few of us out there.

I had a few good sprints to pass the few of us out there.

I don’t know why it failed but since I also have my Watch track my rides I’m merely irked & not vengeful.

45 miles with about 1500 feet of climbing felt very good. The legs never demurred.

I actually did 45 in 3 hours and 6 minutes or so. I avoided most hills but the wind was steady.

From my watch — which always gets the climbing feet wrong.

Some not actual sprinting at the airport too.

In the Sphere of the Fixed Stars Dante meets Adam & has unstated questions about the language he spoke on Earth — a scholars curiosity.

“The language which I spoke was entirely spent before Nimrod’s people attempted the unfinishable work, for, due to human caprice which reinvents itself as often as does the sky, no rational artifact has ever endured.”

It’s a difficult passage to get right & it’s suppose to stand out as Odd, for here again Dante has completely mismanaged or Reinvented the reasonable artifact which is Terza Rime. Alway has the stress of the accent fallen on the 2nd to last syllable — or penultimately — : 14,000 lines have been thus* but here Adam 3 times has the stress of accent on the 3rd from the end — or Ante-penultimately — on inconsummabile & razionabile & durabile. These words simply don’t belong in the Divine Comedy in rhyming position. Adam’s own language forces itself through into the fabric of Dante’s language. It’s actually very astonishing.

*I think there are 2 exceptions. I’ll look carefully for them next reading