big ride

i'm sitting here, it's 1534 hours in the afternoon, there is a light coating of salt all over my body, i look frosted, my stomach is filing complaints, my legs are having a board meeting right now to see if they want to revolt and cramp or not.  just got back from a three and a half hour ride through the desert.  luckily, we started at 1115 in the afternoon so we got to ride in grueling heat.  good times.  i feel surprisingly great, my mind is tricking me so i don't realize how fat and out of shape i am.

yesterday was a good day.  didn't do too much, did start out at the gym and lifted more weight than i have before, and felt great doing it.  it feels wonderful to be going back to the gym.  the highlight of yesterday was dinner.  i purchased some super tasty fancy schmancy artisanal bread and made some tasty caponata, and we had that with a bottle and a half of very tasty wine.  

so today, after drinking way too much wine and getting a solid four hours of sleep, i embarked on a long hot ride through the desert.  i'm a fucking genius,the things i think are a good idea.

still, i did have a great ride, spectacular views, tons of fun, i feel worked but in a good way.  i'm looking forward to passing out in about an hour, after my shower and another twenty or so glasses of water.  

movie review: moonrise kingdom

woke up early and went for a bike ride (wait, i thought this was a movie review? it is, this will make sense shortly).  it was windy, but not crazy windy.  still, windy enough to make me want to turn around.  i just kept on heading into the wind, knowing i would at least have it at my back on the way home.  my body felt drained. my legs felt like noodles. no matter what i did i couldn't get comfortable.  i was going to do a big ride, i ended up doing about 35 km.   at least i got out there.  i came home and slept like a mofo, which helped. i still feel drained, i don't know why. probably my crappy diet.

so, moonrise kingdom. it was completely pleasant and fun, unlike my extremely not pleasant and unfun bike ride.  i have always like wes anderson movies (except for darjeeling limited, i just couldn't get into that one).  i think this may be his best.  i love the sets he uses, i like the tempo and feel of his movies.  the soundtrack to this movie wasn't as good as his others, but the story was good, and overall it was quite delightful.  i would totally recommend this movie.  

i would not recommend this morning's bike ride though.  it was wholly not delightful.

good ride

it's 1132 hours in the afternoon, i'm sorta tired and my taint hurts.  just got back from a pretty good road ride, 67.59 kms.  i started at 0630 this morning, trying to beat the heat and wind.  today is supposed to be 100 degrees with 20 mph winds, fuuuuuck that.  it was a great morning, the first 16 or so kilometers were flat, i felt good, then the climbing began.  i wanted to throw up, i wanted to pass out, i wanted to turn around and say fuck it, but i kept on going, somehow, and holy shit, i made it to where i knew i was going to be ok. it was a beautiful ride, beautiful day, and surprisingly my legs felt really really good.  even after i was done i felt ok, i wasn't totally beat.
after the ride i stopped by the shop and hung out for a while, then came home, and here i am typing.
now i have the rest of the day to do as i wish.  part of that is meeting the girl and hanging out with her and her daughter.  today i shall meet the daughter, hopefully the kid will like me enough.  i've met the son and he liked me, now for the girl.  i'm not a fan of kids, i hope i don't want to kill the kid....
other than that...i have the rest of the day to do as i please.  which i think will mean sleeping.
so now i gotta take a shower and get ready to hang out with my girlfriend and her spawn.  good times.

new bike, awesome day

been forever since i wrote here.  the last time i wrote here i had fucked up my finger, a lot has changed.  my finger is still fucked up, but i have a brand new kick ass awesome bike, it's magical, i can do just about anything on it.  i rode the section that caused my finger to bend, i've ridden other stuff i hadn't ridden before.

two days ago i went for a pretty awesome road ride, last night i tried to ride but my legs were still not ready.  then there was today....

today was a great day, i am totally beat, spent, done.  went for a big ride to day, in the hot sun, drank a beer or two, and now i wanna call it a day.

great ride, i look forward to the many rides to come.

finally got to ride a bike

i haven't ridden in forever, today i felt good (for the first time in a while) and the weather was cooperating (sort of) and the trails were dry, so we went for a ride.  

february in colorado, out these parts it’s warm and sunny and the ground is dry. we went for a ride, it was windy, it was chilly, but it was pretty damn nice, because we were riding bikes in february.
coming down the drop in, i managed to fall nicely. i was fine, got up, and i felt something odd with my hand. thank the gods i had gloves on, because i grabbed the upper half of my left pointer finger, and without thinking about it, instinctively snapped it to the right, back in place, where it belongs. thankfully i did it before i realized what i had done, perhaps i was in a minor state of shock, and i’m thankful for it.
since it was pretty much at the beginning of the ride, my finger was pretty useless for the majority of the ride, which meant braking was a bit not that fun. holy crap i was tired too, i hadn’t really been on a bike for about a month, went for that short ride a few days ago, and now this. being all sick didn’t help much i’m sure, but although i was coughing like a 3 pack a day smoker, my lungs seemed to work ok, and they felt good.
after the ride, back at the truck, i had a bit of medicinal brownie, and now my finger feels fine and i can type. tonight we go to Ross’s house for moive night. i should be feeling way past fine in a few hours.
great day, despite the messed up finger which doesn’t bend too well.

a short ride

"i just wanna do a short, easy ride, nothing big today"   this is what we said, what we agreed on, what we apprently felt.  it's not what happened. 

the weather was beautiful, just a hint of cool in the air, but our hands and ears weren't screaming in pain from the cold.  we were in short sleeves and shorts, and it was glorious.  took off from the house, got on dirt, and it was ON! 

it felt like riding through an M C Escher painting, we somehow were always going up a fucking hill.  the trails were in perfect condition, i know somwhere along the way we had to be going down a hill, but it felt like all climbing.   we came out by the road, i thought we were done, but oh no, "lets do one more" seemed to be the attitude of the day, and so we did. 

three and a half hours of riding overall.  my legs were jelly.   twenty + miles on a mountain bike is not a "short, easy" day.   overall, it was a good day, a fun day.  


that was yesterday.  today we are going on a slow, short, easy ride.   we shall see about that.....