Rest Day

sort of. Did the hybrid commute. Dropped both girls off and left the biodiesel powered vehicle at the last location. Rode in.

Maybe i should have looked into that double trailer back then. Too bad that combined they are over the weight limit, not to mention i'd need some Mt bike triple gearing to get it up the hills...

One thing, far more important than olive leaf, or the flu shot, or washing your hands OCD fashion: Sleep. Not enough rest and all the above won't keep ya healthy. Get enough rest and you'll be okay. Guess the theme: Me not feeling like i've had enough sleep.

Tired. I look in the mirror and even to myself i look tired. Sucks. It got me thinking. What is america chronically tired (yes i know, plenty of exceptions out there) TV. Yeah. TV. Stupid fahkin Sox, It would have been great if it was Cleveland and the Angels. and then say the angles and who cares from the NL (i'm AL all the way). I wouldn't have to worry about the game. No one would. Wouldn't bother me to miss it completely. That and TV. Staying up to watch tv. Crazy.

Pushing Daisies i think is a good reason to turn the tv on. Cool show. Geared towards not the mainstream it would seem. Why? They talk fast. Way too fast for most people. Oh. The big bang theory is pretty damn funny. Good writers... good theme song (Barenakedladies sings it). If you have iTunes (me don't) you can get the single of that song.

TV is a waste of time, fortunately it has been one of the big changes since departing michigan.

And G-Damit.

From the looks of it i should have raced Cross in NE in 2005. Since then? Might as well be California w/o the fires around here. Damn Automaton is taunting me with images of the stuff that makes cross cross. Although, the racing is awesome even dry and all that, but, when conditions get cold, snowy, muddy, the standings shuffle.

Racers like Tonkin inexplicably leap frog all the guys who eat up Glawster in the dry fast conditions. When traction and weather become limiting factors it isn't the biggest engine that matters anymore. Sure, ya still gotta have a wicked supercharged motor to win the Elites, but that can't be all ya got. Ya need da skillz.

Speaking of weather. Check out the organic Yogurt Czar and some cool stuff (it is a video... prety cool). CE YO... i think its funny...

Took Lucy out for a run after we got home. It was kinda dark. She's got a reflective harness and i clipped a blinky light on to her. She's freaking fast. Full on 100 meter sprint out of the gate. Ya know, not a fast run, but like full on me barely touching a toe to the ground leaning forward, driving as hard as i can with each leg. Man if i was this fast in high school things would have been different. At least it felt amazingly fast. Ever try and keep up with a wicked fast dog? Lucy's lean, solid, got a bit of ridgeback in her, maybe some lab, something else too. But, she's got that long lean greyhound kinda look in the haunches and when she pins her ears back and gets low and starts motoring, i gotta ramp it the hell up, and it was fun. We went out for only about 15 minutes but it was fast. And dark, But fast. She wanted to run. So we did. Some guy on a department store bike with no lights, wearing all black told me I should be wearing the blinky light, not my dog. Maybe, but... i had reflective straps on and all that and if he had had any light i would have lit up quite nicely.

It hurt. But in a good way. It also helped settle my back down. Seems if i can get more running in my lower back is less sore after racing. Somewhat unscientifically corollary with more running the week leading up to a race.

Going to go our Thursday afternoon and hit the stadium. Drop me a line if ya local and wanna try out a fun little loop or some stadium stairs with da cross bike.

Now i just finished reading something and then spending way too much time commenting... So. Since i wasted the time, i strongly suggest you do as well! Go read the entry from the 24th.

Don't be a passive student. Don't follow advice blindly. Just cause the PROs have their bars pointed to the rear hub doesn't make it the right way to set it up. Just because the PROs never use the drops doesn't mean they are doing it the right way. Be a good student in life. Actively learn. Don't sit on the couch absorbing facts only from the fahkin TV or computer screen. Get out and participate.

And smile. be happy. hate, anger and fear are dangerous emotions that rip and tear at society. Don't be a nucleation site for any of them.

peace
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