So, first there was this... which went terribly well, right up until the point I snapped my bike in half. On the positive side, I didn't snap myself in half at all during the event. Another consoling thought has been that if you're going to break something, it's nice when it doesn't just break a little bit but really breaks beyond any doubt that it is broken. This was one of those times.
And more recently there was this, which just went terribly well.
In other news, I'm experimenting with starting sentences with the word "and". It's intimidating at first, but as the old saying goes, "If something's worth doing, it's worth doing wrong". The old ones are always the best.