its HOT out there folks

I have an update that was written yesterday, but its not here. It'll be up maybe tomorrow or Monday.

Oh did i mention its hot?

I'm taking my second indulgence today. Sitting here printing out some lender correspondance, in the air conditioned office. Second indulgence in that the first was a nice 58 or so mile ride. Rode with the brown gang, and no they didn't leave at 9, they wanted to sleep in till10.... so i punched out just after the girls went to get the paper and go for a walk, grabbed a small iced coffee from Dunkin Donuts, sucked that down and went out... unfortunatly it was supposed to be a mellow 16-18. Which suited me fine, except i seemed to have a mental break down as to the locations of the Town Lines and wound up having pulled most of the mile leading up and then well... no excuses right? I didn't win a town line. I won the one KOM sprint... I felt very good and wound up leading most of the time (came back to haunt me though at the end). It was hot. And i even put sunscreen on. Topped off the bottles at the bikeworks shop and well... decided to head out for the longer ride... rather than make it an easy 40 i thought hey whats an extra few... Total time on the bike computer was 3:15 or so... at 1pm Radu and i left everyone and put the head down and motored... until i blew... Hint from gewilli - it IS possible to put too much gatorade mix in the bottle... i was getting cooked from the heat, and i don't like how sunscreen blocks up the pores... Anyway.... we made it back. And my legs are sore, no way in hell i'd have been able to survive two hoos laps... although, i spent probably 80% of the day in the front towing everyone alone, then slowing down and waiting for the stragglers, then towing along... then waiting... so the average speed wasn't terribly indicative of the effort.

At anyrate, things are good, on the bike front. I'm chuggin some sugars to push the glycogen, although the high fructose corn syrup in Coke aint' ideal... i did suck down a large bowl of pasta with some sausage in it a bit ago.

I ain't going into much more than a ride report.... its 83 degrees and feels more like 90, and we had a head wind all the way back in from Dighton MA.... how fun was that... and not much shade on the road...

Big thanks to Radu - he was key to gettin me back, he endured my good natured ribbing and my suggestion that the pink C-dale at the shop would go well with his girly sleeveless jersey.

Pop's day tomorrow- to all my mid thirty's friends with Kids - Happy Pop's day! Suds, SailorBoy, Joeseppi (i don't think he reads it), two of my bro's and to my dad's, and my wife's dad... i have two dads cause of divorce, not because i came from a progressive trendsetting family, if ya know what i mean.

Peace out, good luck in the Hoooose to all those riding it!
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