went to the track

I haven't been riding enough lately. There was a high probability of the cancer to come back and going into my first checkup I wasn't completely committed to the amount of training required for bike racing. My checkup was this week and I'm all clear, at least until the next checkup.

I raced tonight with low expectations knowing that the 2 days a week or so that I have been riding are nearly enough to prepare me for race speeds.

My flying 200 was average. I'd never done one before. I'm pretty sure I can go faster. The tempo race I managed a single point on the first sprint but faded fast. The 360 sprint was fun but I did not advance to the finals. I thought I was putting in just enough effort to advance but a dude came around me and beat me at the line. The Miss and Out reminded me that I hate Miss and Outs. The final race was a points race and the plan was to hang while I could and then if I got dropped, go down a lap and jump back in again. I think riding with a group at race speed is probably better for me to get back into shape that doing a Individual Time Trial for 40 laps. I did about 30 laps or so and packed it in.

Looking forward to going back. I needed to get that first night of racing out of the way and I think I found the motivation I needed to get back in shape.

In the background there you'll see some Jay Bennett before Wilco. That's not the best song, but it's all I could find on the you tubes.

I might need to do some quick fire posts for a while to push that last post down in the stack a bit. The picture is kinda gross. Tuesday and Thursday nights are full of kid activities lately so that means no TuffRide and no Track. Thursday I go back to the doc for a checkup so I  wouldn't be able to go to the track anyway. After this sort of check-up you spend the next 12-18 hours dealing with some unpleasent side effects. I'd be happy to tell you all about it over a beer sometime. Just ask.

woah

Just noticed a draft post laying around that I never published. So yea, that's some of the crap that was inside me. While I'm no doctor, I don't think you need to be one to see that -- that shit aint right. Anyway, now you know what the inside of my bladder looked like. 



First cancer checkup coming up in a couple weeks. Fingers crossed.

hypothetical question

Pretend for a moment FryeOnTheRivet asks you for a ride to/from a retirement party and the last thing you remember is driving him home. You wake up in your car down by the river with your pants and wallet gone and there is a bike throw dot com t-shirt that smells like it was soaked in some sort of ether like substance stuffed in your mouth.  *AND* (here's the weirdest part)  there is a coupon for a free Mammoth Muffin from Perkins on your dashboard that is simply inscribed "Thanks" !?!?

Do you tell anyone? I'm pretty sure if something like this happened to me I would burry it away deep inside my brain and try not to think or speak of it. Ever.

totally getting screwed

So, for a couple years now I've never had any issues using the bus when riding my bike to work. My stop was the first on the route so I was all but gaurnteed a spot on the bike rack. The routes have changed a lot during my recent medical lay off of and now the bus I take starts from downtown. This means many more people on the bus and many more cyclists.

So now it's totally a gamble if I can even get on the bus in the morning. I'm told I have to sit for 45 min and wait to see if the next bus has a spot on the rack. This makes the bus solution completely useless for me now.

Yes, Raymond -- I do realize I could ride all the way to work. I considered it this morning, but I wasn't prep'd for the 23 mile journey. Typically I ride the whole distance home, but not in the morning.

Anyway, I'm royaly cheesed off right now and I have to re-think the whole bike-to-work plans. 

Fuckity-Fuck!

First road ride in forever. Got up super early which is no fun, but the pay off is getting in roughly 40 miles and getting back in time to eat waffles before most people are out of bed. I'm not sure this is the right route, but it's close I think. Frye led me around St. Paul for a while and his ride yesterday must have taken a lot out of him since I was slaying him on the hills even though I didn't ride this winter, and oh yea... I had cancer! I felt better than I thought I would but I have a lot of work to do.

googe dot com

As a developer, I'm used to using auto-completion features of IDE's and this sort of stuff has trickled into software like web browsers and other junk you use daily.

What's really annoying is when you make a type-o in your address bar of your browser and it just happens that your type-o now takes precedence over the URL you really want to go to.

So lately I find myself making a lot of inadvertent trips to "googe" instead of google.