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Seven Springs kicked my ass!
Not exactly. I fell in the beginning of my
second lap. I blame it on the Sport Beans . I fell hard
on some
rocks. Lost a minute on my lap just
standing there recovering.
I finished the lap, took some pills and slept
for two hours (on my side).
Busted out two more laps after that - six
minutes faster then the crash lap. It looks worse then it feels,
though I still can't sleep on my back.
(9/4/06)
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My Demise .
Burnedout
Stressedout
Over trained
Done
Looking forward to fast cool nights with
lights (8/27/06).
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I took this photo a couple of
weeks ago and damn it if I don't have anything witty to say.
What is it? Read
about it here . I have five or
six of them living along my front sidewalk. Every day is a
nature lesson out our front door (8/18/06).
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I'm finally a member of
the cracked frame club! I guess 1,000 miles in five months
will do that.So I go
from riding
this to riding this till the new frame comes in (8/15/06).
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We had a little pool party
last weekend (8/5/06) with some friends. This is Josh
and Jacob hanging out
after some pool
time.
Nice to have
folks over and hang out.
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So at 5:30pm today
(8/3/06), the thermometer said this.
What did I do? Jumped on my bike and did
the Thursday night ride that started at 6pm.
When I got home at 8:15, the
thermometer read only 10 degrees cooler. I think I spent as
much time in
the pool after the ride as I
did on the bike.
I
wrote a big long race recap for the 101. Maybe I'll get it up
here in some fashion soon.
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Butterfly bushes
actually attract butterflies!
Did the Wilderness 101 7/29/06. That's 101 miles on a mountain bike in
the mountains south and east of
State
College, PA.
Took me
10 1/2 sweltering hot hours to do it on my single speed.
The last 40 were the hardest/slowest.
Couldn't have done it without this.
I'm tired.
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BIG storm blew through
Tuesday night (7/18/06). Before the rain, lightening and thunder,
the power went
out. We went to bed with no
power. Woke up Wednesday with no power. When I say no
power, I mean no
water either. My office was
closed, Jen went to work. Word starts trickeling in that power
may be restored
Thursday by 8pm. If not
then, the weekend.
It's hot out. Way hot. So I clean up
the storm destruction that is our yard. Lost count the number
of
wheelborrows I filled up with debris.
Fired up the generator
(after some carberator tlc) to keep the
freezer running.
Finally around 11pm Wednesday the power comes
back on.
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Got Crabs?
The rents came up this
weekend (7/8/09) so we could go down to Chesapeak City, MD for some
crabs.
They hadn't had crabs since they
moved away fourteen years ago. This years batch were really tasty
and
quite large.
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It took 44 pictures to get
this one shot. I figured that was worth throwing up another picture
for this week
(6/29/06).
Headed to Marysville
tomorrow for the Mt. Bike Festival weekend doohicky. I'm only doing
the night time
trial and XC race. Skipping
out of the short track and hill climb events to party at a friends
house. The XC
race will actually be my
shortest race for the month of July at a whopping 28 miles. Tuff
month. I'll have to
start shaving my legs
twice a day to keep up with the manliness.
Genius statement of the day: "Did you know the
largest importer to the US from China is Wal-Mart?"
Wonder how long it will take this Einstein to
realize his hour long dirve to work is facilitating the melting
of
the worlds glaciers?
W = wanker.
Yeah so i got my blog on tonight.
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Went up to Jim
Thorpe 6/25/06 to ride in the rain. Figured if it was going to
rain four days straight, might
as well ride.
Jim Thorpe's so gnarly. I love the shredded tire edges. It
was a big ride with a big crew.
Read more
about it here.
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We woke up this morning
6/17/06 to this right outside our kitchen window. It was pretty
cool. They landed
in the park behind our
house. I'll have to put a page together of it. Look for that
sometime in October
maybe.
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June 3rd my friend
Chris married his fiancee Lesley. It was
a small affair. A few of us from the team went
and had a great time.
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Pool's Open! We had a
little get together among friends for Memorial
Day (5/29/06). The pool was quite
refreshing.
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Our cat hasn't made it
into the spotlight very often on this sight, but this weekend
5/23/06 she was doing
such an excellant job
supervising the chores we thought we'd give her a little focus.
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Officially the MTB race
season has started for me. Last weekend (5/13/06) I did my first
Expert level race
and finished a
respectable 8th out of 16 (I was the only one on a single speed
in my class). I have another
race this coming
weekend, then I'm off for a few weeks.
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Work has started and
almost finished on our cracked and bowed garage wall
(5/8/06) . The guys from
Keystone
Foundation are doing a great job!
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Spring is still
springing and we're still busy with outdoor projects.
This week (5/1/06) we started opening the pool.
Hopefully we'll be swimming soon.
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Spring has sprung and
we're busy with outdoor projects. Nothing too crazy. Just your
normal spring yard
work. If you wait a second, the
picture below will change. 4/18/06
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"Here's mud in your
eye."
April 8, 2006 a few of us from the team
went to Andover, NJ for a race called the Running of the
Dogs.
Unlike other races where you're
given a certain number of laps to complete the fastest, this one
gave us
certain blocks of time in which to
complete the most number of laps. Experts had four hours.
Sport/Single Speed had three and beginner
had two. I did the Single Speed class and got five laps in
in
three hours. Laps were a little
over five miles. I'm told I got third, but that hasn't been
confirmed. The
hardest part about this
race was the weather. The temperature averaged 35 degress. It
rained, snowed
and sleeted on us the entire
time.
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"Secret Squirrel
Training"
Last night
(Wednesday March 22, 2006) I did the Wednesday night ride for the
first time since
Dec. 7, 2005. Miraculously
I was not only able to keep up, but even lead some sections. The
guys said I
had been doing some secret
squirrel training over the winter. If that's the case, this would be
my secret
squirrel. Since moving in a month
ago, I've been commuting to work 2 o 3 times a week on this. And yes
it's uphill both ways.
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My Dad had eye
surgery March 14, 06 to repair a scar from the last eye surgery he
had. Yesterday when
I called he was
still in a post operative haze. Today when I received this
picture from him I wonder if he's
still
not suffering from an anesthesia flashback.
For those of you a little confused (not you
Dad), he's a pirate using Woodstock as his parrot.
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It's a thing of beauty.
Saturday afternoon
(3/4/06) I decided I didn't have enough beer and went to
Victory to get more. You know
how you
shouldn't go grocery shopping when you're hungry? Well you
shouldn't go to the micro brewery
when
you're thirsty. I ended up buying a case of Storm King, a bottle of
Saison and this nifty bottle
opener. Though
it wasn't until I got home I fully realized the potential of this
bottle opener.
Positioned perfectly over this little bucket,
the bottle caps snap off and drop straight down. It's beautiful.
It makes drinking fun again. It's a game I can
play over and over.
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Behold the "Receptacle
of Death!" If you look close at the bottom plug, you'll see
some discoloration. I
think that's death
seeping out. (3/2/06)
So what is it that makes this particular
receptacle so deathly? Have I been shocked? Does it spark?
Does it even work?
Last week I bent down to pick something up off
the floor in the room in which this receptacle is located.
As I got close to the floor I got a wiff of
something bad - something very bad like death. Knowing the wall
this receptacle is located in has had issues
with death in the past (that's another story entirely), I leaned
in closer for another wiff and death knocked me
on my ass.
Behind
this receptacle - in this wall there is death. Old death. How
many lives lost, I cannot say. When
I'll get
the courage to rectify the situation is anyones guess.
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The day we closed on our
new house, it snowed nine inches. Three days before we move in (Feb.
12,
2006, it snows twelve inches. Since Dec.
9th (the day we closed) it hasn't snowed at all.
Why me?
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So you've been keeping
track of our progress and want to come visit after we move in.
You're probably
wondering where our house is
located.
It's easy.
It's right down the street from the Live Bait vending machine.
That's right. Find the Live Bait
vending
machine and we're right down the road. Pick up some bait and stop on
by (2/1/06).
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So we buy a house and
three days later find out we need a new roof. Now the week of
January 22, 2006,
we find out we need a new
furnace. So far I'm not really seeing the benefits of owning
over renting...
The
little black circle laying there is an eye piece that's supposed to
fit in the hole below it to protect and
view
the combustion chamber. When you put it in place and put the cover
back on, the furnace quits
running.
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A new roof! The roofing
guys started on our roof Monday Jan. 16, 2006. They came back
Thursday after
the rain to finish it.
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For the week of January 8th,
this was my work area. We replaced the exhaust fan in the
master bath,
replaced the recessed light in
the master bath and added an exhaust fan to the main bathroom. I
have at
least another weeks work up here to
add the necessary duct work, add a fan to the kitchen and replace
its
recessed lights.
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