I like my bike again

I went out on mountain bike ride today after work. The trails are finally starting to get into good shape after the rain. Matt and I avoided the permawet second half. It was a pretty good blast.

I rode my mountain bike solo Monday night for the full D-run loop and by the second half I wanted to sell it and become a full fledged roadie. Bugs and spiders were everywhere, and the mud!! ahhhh! The mud I've decided, smells worse at night. Or maybe it has taken on that new excrement scent recently. I'm going to avoid that whole second half from now on.

I'm planning to talk Luke into a night ride tomorrow night. he has this new theory that he will go to bed by 9:30pm each night and get up at 6am to ride for an hour. That doesn't jive with me, considering I hate mornings. I'll keep you posted.

Also I picked four fresh jalapeno's tonight from my container garden. Two of them were smokin' hot and made my chicken tacos so good!

BS

forcast is looking up baby

After a bit of a rainy spell the ten day is looking pretty sunny. It's time to start the official training kick for the SM 100. I'm going to see how well I can do over the next few weeks and then make a decision to enter.

Heading out to the bookstore and to return my tuxedo. Woot!

Sunny today...

Time to get a ride in. With each rainy day that passes it's getting less and less likely that I'll be finishing the SM100. I've got to sit down and hash out a solid training plan now, before it's august and I'm still riding sporadically.

I signed up for twitter which allows me to post tweets on twitter, status updates on facebook, and display them on the blog simultaneously. I can post on Twitter from my Blackberry so you'll see much more frequent posts on the twitter account than on the blog.

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Sunday night already...

Pratik and I bought tickets to Munich last week. Here's to Octoberfest and Belgium! I'm really stoked for Belgium. I had a chance to run by Barnes and Nobles yesterday and chill out for a while. I read a Pro-Cycling news article on the one day classic, Ghent to Wevelgem. It's a 203 kilometer one day race in Belgium that starts just outside Ghent, heading toward the coast and back over to Wevelgem, which is near the French border. I am quickly becoming obsessed with Belgium, and I'm already scheming as to how I can take Pratik (and TJ if he goes with) to a cyclocross race while we're in Belgium. Beligian's love Bicycles and so do I!

My roommate Matt (who owns the house) is becoming increasingly animus with the racoon's kits that were left behind in our wall afeter successfully trapping "Mama Rac". He had people over on Friday to jam- we have what equates to a small music studio in the room adjacent to their hideout. I thought he was trying to kill them with London Calling. Today he had the outisde wall appart with the trap out on the deck. He and Brenda banged on walls and turned the shopvac (on blow- versus suck) to drive them down from their fort, to no availe.

Matt, (I'm sure you'll eventually read this), don't let them get you down brother. Don't let them break you. Don't get the dynamite just yet!

BS

Raccoon's in the attic!

Well I haven't been riding too much since my killer week because of rain, work, and social obligations (use that term loosely). Racing six hours of Patapsco this weekend if it is not canceled.

We had a raccoon in the attic. We think he got in there about two weeks ago when we took an outside wall apart to fix a broken pipe. We sealed it back up with him- and possibly a few extra creatures inside. yes we think there might be some more up there. Here's a picture of him before we re-introduced him into the wild:


My Jalapeno plant is starting to produce some fruit and the tomato plant has a few more unripe tomatoes on it! -woot!

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