Wednesday, May 13, 2009

''If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.'' K.V.

Visit my supervising teacher for next year
Along with the students I will be working with
Great bunch, wild kids, a handful
really excited.  I thought I wanted to work in a poor school
But this will present its own challenges
On the way out
my teacher shows me a catalog from one of his sponsors
2010 he will have a glove named after him.
Sweet.
Ride up the hill.
Found a nice nice loop from the house. 
2+ hours of single track
gearing might be high
nature walk mode for some time
super nice
sunburnt and dirty
coffee on the stove again
new wilco cd is streaming online
  

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

what not to do

finishing up
35 pages, done at 5:45
incoming rain
no motovation to ride
hour run not so bad
super hot balm on the legs
keeps em warm in the rain
rub it in, off i run
run run run
start to sweat
wipe the brow
then the forehead
sweat and balm
causes my scalp to burn
ow ow ow
atleast i was careful with my nature break

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

sunny days tease me

responsible
sunny day
almost 60
all day on the porch finishing a math project
no deposits in the bank today
calf is hurting
time to mend
longer commute on the horizon
time restraints creates responsibility 
along with the joy of getting out

epic on the hozion
scratch that
huge deposit
finish project
allows for epic on sunday
good read
story of my life
http://www.adventurecorps.com/way/insearchofepic.html

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

clothes are clean
run with dog for 30 minutes
2 hour bike
3x3 min
3X2 min
3x1 min
as coach says, put it all on the table each time
nothing left
should be stretching and rolling
health is there
finally a spring staying healthy

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

New Bike Power

turns out I can have productive days.

new wheels arrive yesterday, thanks mavic: final piece to the new bike build
spend the morning putting all the pieces together
surly cranks taken off, put back in the box.  keeping them new for the long term project
old xt 2 ring crank set up back on
rides nice around the block
appointment with eric at GMRSM, looking at my knees and my run gait
extra stretch time to get me even again
2 hour ride, listening to the coach
on paper, barely a work out
on the road I am hurtin
low heart rate high cadence structured intervals
feeling really good about spending the money on a coach and a plan
rode my first ribbon of singletrack today
sweet
off to school

Saturday, March 28, 2009

thank allah for gore tex shoes.

little big dog and I took an outing to saxon hill trails this morning for me to get my long run in.  trails were nice, wet, icy in places, though soo nice to get back into the woods.  

she is still trying to figure out hill repeats, twice we get to the bottom to turn around and I get that face, "serious back up that?" 

treat gets her going.

good trail dog, especially when she turns on the tornado while decending.


Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Testing...Testing

School got in the way again today, or atleast me starting to be responsible. 

Got out for an hour.
on the program now.
first order do some testing.  
big ring go fast for 25 minutes
felt good to pedal "in anger"
time to build some muscle tension
time to go pop