Dry roads + not too cold = happy

Kayla and Susie decided to abondon me for a week or so to go back to the Boise area for a while and stay with family. That's left me here alone to waste all my time outside of work with riding my bike and playing video games (I guess the unmarried me would be kind of a loner).

Yesterday by some miricle that seems to never happen around here, the day of the week that had nice weather actualy fell on a Saturday when I could enjoy it. So after sleeping in late for the first time in a long while I put on my space suit of cold weather riding gear and headed out into the scorching 35 degree heat.

It was mostly sunny all day and not much wind which made for a nice day to be on the bike. The 4-5 foot walls of snow on both sides of the roads in some parts made for a cool tunnel feeling and made me feel very lucky to have dry pavement under my tires.

Since most all of my riding this year has been indoors I wasn't sure how my endurance would translate to outside distances. I planned a kinda tough loop that I thought would wipe me out. But when I rolled back into town I had 60 miles in my legs and was feeling fresher and stronger than I've felt on a bike in a couple years so I decided to loop out around the airport for some extra distance. By the time I got home I had just over 80 miles for the day and was finaly sapped of all my energy and could only shake my head as I tried to figure out why I ever thought it was a good idea to move into a house on top of a big/steep hill.

For Kayla

Tagged
I've Been Tagged...I've been tagged by Kayla, I usualy never do these things but since she realy wanted me to I guess I will, but I'm for sure not gonna pass it on to anyone else.

What I was doing 10 years ago...I think in Feb. of '98 I was thinking about running for Sargent at Arms in the student body presidency (I won which resulted in me doing the daily video anouncements, having a vote in the ASB meetings and no real responsibilities). I was working on my part in a high school play "Of Moss and Men" it was a kinda lame who-done-it/ murder mystery/comedy where I was the star of the show with, no joke, zero lines. My charicter was a def/mute butler so I never talked but was on stage for most of the play and got to do some fun physical comedy.

5 Things on my "To-Do" list today...(I'll do tomorrow since today is over) 1. ride 2. make it to work on time 3. get home to play with Susie while Kayla runs 4. ride again 5. hang out with Kayla

3 Bad habits I have...1. picking my nose, I know it's grose but sometimes you've gotta do what you've gotta do and it's not my fault it feels good. 2. Not eating enough, it's just never a high priority of mine. 3. Eating too much candy.

Places I have lived...Parma ID-Rexburg ID-Provo UT-Albi France-Toulon FR-Brive FR-Frejus FR-Boise ID-Pocatello ID

Things Most people don't know about me...Doing drama stuff in high school is probably one, I believe evolution is very close to the truth and when I dream about winning the lotery one of the first things I'd buy would be some realy nice watches.

Keep'n on keep'n on

Since the last blog I supose not a ton has happened but here you go anyway.

A few weeks ago I accomplished the monumental feat of watching the Rocky series (I-V anyway) in less than a week, and the real kicker was when I tackled III, IV and V back to back to back. No, I'm not letting on to how much excessive free time I have, just how much time I've been spending in the basement on my bike in front of the TV. For the marathon session I had to pound out a 5-hour ride inside and the pain of that much Rocky actualy made me forget I was even still on my bike. Pocatello hasn't been a pleasent place to train lately. I've made it outside for a grand total of 2 rides this year (the only 2 since September or October of last year) the rest has all been either in my basement or a couple have been in the basement of a local bike shop with a couple other folks.

Do you know that feeling you get when you're walking around the local D.I. and you spot some thing you have to have and you'd be willing to pay ten times the humble asking price if needed? A couple days ago I had that moment when I spotted an old school Power Pad for the NES! And just to prove that miracles do happen I just happend to have an NES at home with a game (Super Team Games) made for the Power Pad! I've now decided I need to find some way to work it into my bike training schedule, and judging by how exausted I got playing it earier this evening it will be great for maxing out my heart rate.

Hmmmm, what else.......... Oh, I got our tax return this week. That was exciting, it would have been realy fun to blow it all on something really cool but in the long run I think I'm better off with having used most of it to zero out my credit cards and pay off some hospital bills from Susie's birth.

Like always Kayla's blog has all the recent happenings with Susie (like here finaly getting a hang of the rolling over thing).