These are a few of my favorite things!

Damn song. Coming back from a bit of a lunch time cross practice, there's a guy playing the sax... the one that is all straight and stuff? almost clarinet but bigger and brass... (i'm a strings player - brass lexicon isn't my forte)... he's blaring out a pretty damn good version of that song.

And it is stuck in my head.

Other things to note about lunch time rides. EAT AFTERWARDS. These might seem pretty intuitive to most. And if i was offering advice i'd certainly suggest waiting till afterwards to eat the bulk of your food. But i was hungry and ate most of it before. Nothing like a full stomach to turn the legs to lead.

A quick warm up and then i did a solid 10-15 minutes of intensity. A little loop, two imaginary barriers (lines painted in the grass) a short shoulder run up, a couple big blue spruce trees and a few barrels. All on slow bumpy hard grass. Then i spun around for a while. Getting something i never ever get in, absolute low intensity, for a few minutes, came back did a bunch of loops backwards and instead of doing the shouldering carrying of the bike i powered up the climb.

A pointless exercise? I dunno. But it felt good to push myself to do something i didn't really want to do (would have rather finished eating lunch while reading the entire internet).

And ya know since the damn song is stuck in my head... i feel like sharing. Check this one out. This version is a bit more listenable. Although who can fault Julie Andrew's voice? Certainly not I. But i gotta say the Brian Setzer version kicks ass. and is certainly much closer to the guy out on the street with his case open.

It is also back to Farmer's market. All the local farms have the early season apples out and even some grapes. All locally grown. Picked up a couple apples. Mighty tasty.

Back to the favorite things. Many of you music folks will(should) associate that song with one legend. John Coltrane. This guy on the street, yeah... same ax, and sitting here listening to the Coltrane version, i'd say that guy on the street learned the song by ear listening to Coltrane.

Music.

Good stuff.