I wish every day could be Friday! In more ways than one! Since Pam has to be at work early on Fridays, I’ve been reserving that morning for a 20 mile single ride before grabbing my bag to head to work. It’s a time when I can get out and work as hard as I [...]
Archive for July 2009
Friday Fun!
July 31, 2009TMI?
July 30, 2009OK, I’ll fess up. I’m beginning to rely too much on internet weather radar. We’ve had so much goofy weather the past month that there’s not a 4 hour stretch that goes by where I’m not pulling up the radar map on either my computer or phone. I’m not sure if that’s a good thing [...]
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July 29, 2009My watch is nothing to brag about, but it meets my needs. It’s actually a Sigma PC-15 Heart Rate Monitor that Pam won in a raffle several years ago. I’ve long ago stopped using it as a HRM, but because it meets my basic needs as a watch I keep wearing it in spite of [...]
Tuesday
July 28, 2009On the route Pam and I ride our tandem in the mornings, we go out Sunshine Street to Turners. Just outside of town, the road crosses a railroad bridge, then about 100 feet further, the Pearson Creek bridge. Both are in really sad shape as far as the pavement goes. They’ve been patched, then repatched, and the [...]
Hobbled…
July 27, 2009As I was getting ready to ride to the fitness center this morning, I noticed that my right knee was hurting pretty badly. As much as I’ve been riding lately, it didn’t really surprise me, since I’ve got a pretty consistent history of over-use problems that are generally related to the IT Band. I fell [...]


