Where did the time go?
Nov0
What? Whoa… 3:17pm… maybe getting breakfast or lunch or any of those normal meals would be a good idea NOW instead of munching on dried cranberries? 
-T
Déjà vu
Oct0
Recall how I said some days in the past three months I would be “so tired that my mind was completely numb, and I’d just walk around in a daze?” [link] Oh yeah, well this is another one of them but not caused by work. I spent most of the weekend in the house, and took Monday off to try and re-coup and ward off this cold. Seems to have worked, but in all of my wise wisdom, I decided to consume a bunch of black tea — about 4 cups worth around 10pm yesterday. I tried to sleep around midnight then realized I’m wide awake and my mind is racing. 1am rolls around and I say “screw this” and get on the computer. 1:30am, 2:00am still wide awake. 2:30 I go back to bed and rolled over a few times. Looked at the clock, 3:00am. Then 3:15. Man I thought this day was gonna completely just suck.
It did in some ways — mostly just because it was a workday. I ended up getting 4 hours of sleep. I consumed 5 cups of coffee, and two pepsi’s. I got stuff done this afternoon, which was rather surprising. Just had the headphones on and edited the hardware specs that were in my queue for the last two weeks. I just woke up from a rather short nap. I think I was better off just staying up for that time, now I’m rather grawgy and just want to sleep. Dinner might be a good idea. Sleep sounds better.
It’s a lot of stress on the body. I hope I don’t get sick because of this event. oye.
Side effects: left eyelid is twitching inwards (outwards?) now. Wonderful.
-T
A list of organized bike rides
Jul0
Here’s a list of organized bike rides that I have participated, or plan to participate in. The only exception is the Tour de Cure (aka Summit to Surf). I didn’t realize that ride was sooo close. I should have registered earlier!!! The Reach the Beach, Tour de Cure (Summit to Surf), Providence Bridge Pedal, Race for the Cure and the LIVESTRONG rides has beneficiaries that affect our every day health. I would highly recommend participating in these events if you are a bicyclist (or runner)!
[x] Worst day ride – 2/11 – 45 miles
[x] Reach the beach – 5/19 – 100 miles
[x] Seattle to Portland – 7/14-7/15 – 204 miles
[] Tour de Cure (Summit to Surf) – 7/28 – 100 miles (i’ll do this in 2008)
[] Hottest day of the year ride – 8/5 – 40 miles
[] Providence Bridge Pedal – 8/12 – 35 miles
[] Portland Century ride – 8/26 – 100 miles
[] Race for the Cure – 9/23 – 5K run (3.1miles). Maybe…
[] LIVESTRONG ride – 9/30 – 100 miles
WE COMPLETED THE 2007 SEATTLE TO PORTLAND RIDE!!
Jul0
WE COMPLETED THE 2007 SEATTLE TO PORTLAND RIDE!!
I rode with 9 other crazy bicycling friends (and 8990 strangers) for the 28th annual Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic.
We camped out at the halfway mark in Centralia, WA. We had 3 great support team members who helped us out at the half way mark. Thank you for setting up our camp site! I am definitely doing this again in 2008! I’m sure that everyone will do this again as well (or I’ll keep asking them until they cave in hehehe). Next time, we may want to register a little earlier and confirm registrations, and possibly take the train up.
I’ll post photos when they are all available. Until then, these are the ride details that I was able to record:
Day 1: 102 miles; 6hrs 29minutes; avg speed 16.3mph
Day 2: my computer got reset at mile 140. So, these are the mile 140+ stats:
3hrs 57minutes, 15.24mph; avg cad: 67; max: 31.5; 60.29mi
The annual event did not go with out incident, however. Some guy fell on to my bike and cracked the left carbon fiber crank. The replacement is $170.00 + labor, and will be here in about 2 weeks. The guy stopped between me and Simon and fell onto my bike. This was at mile 25. I didn’t notice the crack until mile 75. I’m thankful that the crank stayed in one piece through the 204 mile ride. There were other crashes involving bicyclists only leaving them with scrapes, bruises and broken bones. On top of that, I am saddened to hear that a drunk driver did a hit-and-run with a bicyclist Sunday morning. The following is an excerpt from the Seattle PI article:
“Gerald Marvin, 24, of Seattle suffered serious injuries when the driver of a sport utility vehicle swerved out of his lane on U.S. 30 northwest of Portland. Struck from behind, Marvin slammed into two other cyclists, who suffered minor injuries.
Police pulled over a 40-year-old driver, an ex-convict with a 1989 conviction for an Oregon murder, eight miles from the accident scene.
Daniel B. Whittlinger was arrested on suspicion of felony hit-and-run, driving under the influence and violating his parole, according to the Oregon State Police.
Witnesses said the driver initially stopped his Jeep Grand Cherokee after the 9:20 a.m. crash, but then sped away, said Lt. Gregg Hastings, a state police spokesman.
Whittlinger is scheduled to be arraigned Monday.”
This is one large win for cyclists. We do fight back.