et alia.

One serious bike ride this week on my gravel bike, which is noticeably more stable and safe than my road bike, especially on the downhills:

It wasn’t super long, but 150bpm over two hours is a good effort for me. (I have a dangerously low resting heart rate, around 45bpm, and have never clocked a heart rate over 190bpm in the last two years in which I’ve been actively monitoring it.) I was going to do a much longer ride (200+ km) on Wednesday to commute from Turin to Reggio Emilia, but got a puncture all of ten minutes in, and so walked my bike back to the Decathlon in dejection, bought a new tube and changed the tire, and got the train instead.

In preparation for that longer ride, I synthesized an audiobook of Matt Handelman’s The Mathematical Imagination: On the Origins and Promise of Critical Theory, which I’m about halfway through and really enjoying! Next week I will try to get back into writing book reviews on my main blog for this and Karatani’s Transcritique.