Tam

Added face pulls and started warming up properly instead of jumping straight in. Click is still there but quieter, and I feel much more solid at the top.

I moved my desk and my left arm now rests on nothing for eight hours a day. That's suspicious timing.

Heel lock on the right side only, fourteen miles yesterday, nothing. Two minutes of lacing versus months of tape.

Check the loft. Lay it out on a bed and see if it puffs up evenly or if the down has migrated to one end of each baffle. Even a year of storage in a slightly damp basement will flatten it. A wash with proper down soap and a long low tumble dry with dryer balls brings a lot of them back.

Weigh yourself with the loaded bag once and use one of the pressure calculators. Takes five minutes and most people are running 15-25psi over what the numbers suggest.

Flipped the stem and tilted the saddle back a couple of degrees. Rode the full 40 minutes yesterday with nothing. Two spanners and no money.

Single wall means more condensation on the inner surface than a double wall, so learn to pitch with a bit of a gap at one end and keep your quilt off the walls. Not a dealbreaker, just don't expect it to behave like your current tent.

The trap is waiting for soreness to clear, training hard again, and getting equally sore. People spend months in that loop and never build the tolerance.

Pitching in the garden a couple of times before a trip helps more than it sounds like it should. Same tent smell, same pad noise, minus the novelty.

Straw bales around the outside is such an obvious idea and I'd never seen it mentioned. Doing that this year.

Smells exactly like the woods behind my parents' place. Screening it this weekend.