18, the hard way.

I rode 18 miles today. But, it took a total of 3 rides to do it. I did 10 miles on the rollers this morning. Felt ok, considering the head cold I had yesterday had me wiped out. Then, I rode into work for 2.5 miles. On the way home, was the remainder. I took a longer way home, which included one good hill. It was darn cold, but I actually was overdressed. Upon my arrival at the homestead, I was turned into a sweaty mess. Yes, I hammered, but still, the temperature was below freezing and I wasn't out very long.

If you have Charter Digital cable, there is a cool U2 concert from 1983, before they made it big. Most of the songs are from their first two albums, "Boy" and "October." "War" hadn't been released yet, but they played New Years Day and Sunday Bloody Sunday and maybe another song from the yet to be released record. The funny thing was when Bono went into the crowd and climbed on top of a fence and stood on it. Actually, his balance was pretty impressive....until he lost it and fell flat on his ass and back.

The concert is also on Youtube, song by song. Or at least a good bit of it. Type in U2 Rockplast.

Here is Bono's falling. I guess, once they hold him up, his dancing on top of the fence IS sort of impressive. BUT NOT AS IMPRESSIVE AS HIS MULLET!!!

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I now have a horrible head cold. Yippie!!!!

Time Trial

Ok. I'm going back and forth here. Should I do Eddy Merckx division time trialing or track racing. I just don't know. I did find the place for me to actually pratice tt'ing by home. It's the north outer road of 44, from Buder Park to the enterance (exit rather) of Lone Elk Park. It's not 10 miles, but I can go back and forth a few times, which will help with the turn around. From the 141 bridge to LE is just under 2.5 miles. I could always add a section of Buder and head back by the airfield for those little planes.

Of course, going as fast I humanly possible on the banked turns of a velodrome looks hella cool!!!!!!!!!

Cool Old Bikes

Since I like cool old bikes, I thought I'd save photos of them and make a blog page to show them at. Right now, I just have my Alan on there and a really cool safety bicycle from the 1890's. I have a link to it on the right "Cool Old Bikes," or here is simply the link to it.

http://coololdbikes.blogspot.com/

Oh, Just Friggin' Great

What else can go wrong?

My day was ok. Yoga in the morning and an hourish ride, of all hills, in the afternoon. I felt strong, except for my lungs, which are still coughing up crap.

Ride in the afternoon? How'd I manage that? Amy went to the doctor today. Her cough is worse than anyother of us. She literally, coughed from 11pm to at least 1 am last night, without a 30 second gap inbetween!!!! X-rays were done.

She has bacterial pnuemonia. Joy.

I'm pondering doing some sort of racing next year. Eddy Merckx time trial division sounds good. So does track racing in kilo, sprint and persuit type events. The Merckx time trialing I can do on the Alan. For track, I'd need a different steed. Possibly, maybe, not sure...this.




I'm all about retro. This is an Italian track frame from the mid 1950's to early 1960's. Obviously the brake would go. IF I get a track bike, I want a TRACK BIKE. Something I would ONLY ride at Penrose. Other photos of this show amazingly cool lugs!!!!!

Edit.....

More bad news. Vicki's cancer has returned. God bless.