Finally saw the new X-men movie…it was X-cellent! Dark Phoenix was the best! That’s all I’ll say, don’t want to spoil it for anyone. Yes, you should feel like you “have to see it”.
Yard Sale items picked up yesterday:
-Johnny Cash CD- $.50
-Cool old Ramones metal lunch box- $1
In other news, this isn’t very encouraging…talk about diminishing returns:
Time to give up???
Nice. Just got in 85 miles on the road this afternoon, did a top to bottom loop of the state, and managed to mostly dodge the rain. It was sunny and breezy down in South County. Good to finally get some real miles in. I plan on doing a few more hours tomorrow morning, do a few hard days this week, then taper down.
June is a big nitty gritty month for me: next weekend is the big mama MTB race up at Mt. Snow, Then in 2 weeks its the 4-day Fitchburg road stage race. Time to buckle down.
Also, I just mailed out a bunch of my tired old bib shorts to get their chamois replaced from these guys. They also will sew on bib tops to a set of non-bib shorts. I am doing that to a few sets of regular shorts that I had previously given up on. I think my lousy bike shorts situation might be rectified after all.
As if all the fucking rain hasn’t been bad enough…last night I got my bike clothes on, and headed down to the basement to do some trainer intervals. I got situated on the bike and started spinning. I then noticed a dripping sound coming from the vicinity of my water heater. I dismounted to investigate. There was a huge puddle under and around the water heater. What the hell.
Faulty relief valve. I started messing with and jiggling said valve. All of a sudden, steaming water just started pouring out full blast, like when you turn a garden hose on. I was standing there, watching my basement fill up with hot water. I found the supply shut off valve, which was not located in a convenient place, but finally got the deluge to stop.
After a trip to Home Depot and some monkeying around with things that I really don’t know about (as well as using some tools for purposes for which they were not intended), I think its fixed- 2 hours later.
Bottom line is I still didn’t get to do my trainer intervals…argh.
Thanks for listening.
Holy crap, last night I did my best time ever at the Seekonk Time Trial. I did it on my home made, piece of garbage Cannondale TT bike. Took 24 seconds off last week’s time, which is 14 seconds faster than my all-time best for that course. Mainly, thanks to Chuck for helping get the thing set up right, and the tips on riding position. That, and I felt really fired up for some reason, which is wierd because I though I would still be cooked after the MTB race Sunday. If I can knock a few more seconds off in the coming weeks, I should be set up nicely for the TT stage of the Fitchburg Stage Race at the end of the month.
Bikes, bikes, bikes…
Anyways, that’s all I got right now. Ciao.
You know you’re bad off when:
Every time you climb a flight of stairs, you think how you would go about shouldering a bicycle.
Think I should tone it down a little?
can you believe I still havent seen X-Men or the Da Vinci code yet? What the hell is up with that?
Hopefully that will change tonight…
Yesterday was a flippin’ hard bike race. Hard but good. It was my first mountain bike race since moving into the Sport category, so I wasn’t too sure what to expect.
Long story short, at the end of an hour and 13 minutes of hell, I managed to pull a 3rd place out of my ass. Not sure how though. I was suffering so bad that I figured I must be getting killed. I guess I forgot that everyone else had to suffer too, and maybe even worse. With no warm up and a lousy start spot, I guess I made out OK.
So, a fine day all around for the BIKEMAN RI’ers. In addition to my podium, Chuck also won in the beginner class, and Matt D. got a 2nd in the Expert race. So, hats off to us!
I will now enjoy my day off the bike…
