No Ride, but i can say "so what" no race obligations till september. A good weekend w/the gilrs and its damn cold. No it wasn't the cold that go me off the bike - just a handy one of my excuses. I rode last week and it was almost as cold (just not as windy).
So i have a delima, Bike Mag showed up. I've read all I can, and its consumed... fini, nothing left to read, and i wanna getout and kick some ass! but... of course i can't! I'm slow, old, probably will always be those two. however I can probably contiune being an opinionated loudmouth with mad techincal skills. I can fix any bike, fix pretty much any car and keep half million dollar microscopes functioning perfectly. Fun Stuff. But that psyco side comes out - ie cyclocross! and ya know add the addiction to 12-24 hour mt bike racing stuff... a BLAST. I wanna be that 34-35 year old guy with a job but no commitments - the age and experiences but not the burden. However, writing that i realize there is a flip side. That burden carries me along, more often than not. That burden often is the one saying set us aside for a few hours and go out and ride, we'll be okay. The last few years, its true. It has been extremely difficult at times. A few documented here, many not. But what keeps me going, is what i have. I may be jealous of the guys my age who own a successful bike shop (or two), I may look enviously at others my age who have pro/semi-pro contracts and a full racing schedule along side their full time job in their career field. It would be great... but it also wouldn't be who i am... I'm a mechanic and an artist, and a scientifically oriented teacher of things. i get to do what i love doing, i have support and family, brothers and daughters, neices and aunts... can't really ask for more.
Looking back, a year ago, i was hoping i could on the bike regularly... here i am... on the bike every day. I was hoping to get out of michigan after the christmas of '04... here i am, out of michigan. I wanted a challenge with a job... here i am...
it isn't perfect, and the albatross of a house still for sale that we aren't living in, weighs heavy... and the scary prospects that makes up the market here isn't terribly comforting... but on the whole... on the whole... its good.
(most of that was written the old fashioned way, pen on paper... while sipping a french red table wine...)
Saw curious george this weekend (on a different note). I loved it. Of course I grew up reading them, over and over, getting absorbed into the illustrations. And my girls have had the stories read to them countless times, all of them. It was great. but... movie ticket prices... holy crap has it gotten bad. Almost worth it to wait for DVD... at least tomorrow the Imax we have tickets for is free... Deep Sea 3D... looking forward to that!
Winter break gripes i guess don't have much of a place/stand here... but heck... i'd love a winter break... we don't even get Prez day off (today)... and they announced the '06 holiday schedule today... to make us feel okay about working today... while the rest of the state is off...
And ya know that '1 gear higher up college hill per week' pledge? Well when i was riding back and forth 5-6 times a week... that was one thing... i'm up and down once or twice a week now... and this morning on the way back up i took the mellow way (past The Hub) and from Wickenden and Brook to the door to the building i went on hamstring power the whole way... I looked like a pathetic slow freak when i finally got to the building... but it was different... in a good way... gonna have to try that out instead maybe of the 1 gear higher... I'm getting so much bottom bracket/crank flex even with the Cold forged XTs that i'm worried about the bike... the hammy trick might have to be my 'training' gimick for a while...
like the other one - i'll see how long this lasts... time to spend the second 1/2 of lunch doing what i'm supposed to do during lunch... EAT... at least though i have a lunch break that affords me time to babble to myself AND eat... and maybe sooner than later i can add back in lunchtime rides...
-(not the) most humble servent of the universe, G
--Frustrating... i like the whole european racing scene, results happen at a reasonable time of the day... this californian EPO tour thing, have they even started stage 2? its like i'm a day behind! how frustrating... and strange
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