Better

Climbed into bed at 9pm last night. My dog wandered upstairs at 9:30 wondering what the f'was going on. In bed already? She plopped down on the carpet for a few minutes then decided her couch was much more comfortable and headed down to check the kitchen one more time and then sleep some too.

I don't think I really fell asleep much before 10pm but it felt good and by 5:30am my body was letting me know that sleep wasn't going to happen any longer. I tried to push it but there are times when you just give in and get up. That and I'm sure the dog was ready to go outside (she was).

The rest did some good. I still rode in basically as slowly as I could. so slow in fact that my toes were cold by the time I got in. Even wearing the fancy winter boots. I guess pedaling hard into 30 mph headwinds at 17 degrees keeps your feet warmer than riding like a wuss at 23 with calm winds. The rest of me was fine but man it took me almost 50 minutes and I was on the bike path. Yes. 3rd consecutive trip to/from the city via the bike path. It is nice. Really amazing how beautiful the ride is through there. All the waterfowl and what not.

The time playing road warrior drives home just how lucky I am to have such an amazing commute (when it is passable). There are still some good stretches of ice, but I've taken my bad judgement, turned it into experience and then now have some good judgement to follow as far as the ice and I've been pretty solid since.

There's some great reading out there. Even inspirational stuff. Fast dudes who can write (not fat dudes, they are kinda lazy about it lately). Tilford's bit about Alexi and Raul and the two Velonews articles he links in there (you might have to go to the source to get the Alexi one - Steve's link didn't work for me).

And well you've got JONNY BOLD's dissertation. Maybe you can find something to object to and debate against in there, I certainly can't. That is right up there with grumpy dipshit's dopers and kids post.

Okay - there - i've called g-ride a grumpy dipshit and solobreak fat, mission accomplished for the day.

Now I just have to figure out what I'm going to make for dinner tonight...

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