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eriktheplaid

The Conversations I Looked Forward to Having This Morning

May 18, 2006 10:29

[Cross-posted from my MovableType Blog]

(as they played out in my head)

"I rode my bike to work this morning."

"Umm, don't you always do that?"

"No, let me restate: I rode. my bike. to work. this morning."

(further hints for the still clueless): "No train was involved. 50 miles door-to-door")

WOO!

Now, if I could ( Read more... )

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Comments 28

bk2w May 18 2006, 17:36:28 UTC

Excellent! Now do it 10 more times.

What county line is that in the icon?

eriktheplaid May 18 2006, 17:50:05 UTC

Los Angeles. It's from the AIDS Ride. (The original image)

eriktheplaid May 18 2006, 17:52:19 UTC

Notice I refrained from the snarky response: "I have, it was called the AIDS Ride. 575 miles."

tshuma May 18 2006, 20:17:06 UTC

And I'm noticing that you didn't actually refrain. :-P

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stealthymonkey May 18 2006, 17:44:44 UTC

Sweet mercy! Awesome!!!!!!

ANd here I was feeling good about riding five miles in hail...Congrats!

eriktheplaid May 18 2006, 17:57:36 UTC

Um, riding ANY distance in hail is far worse than what I just did. It was a gorgeous spring day. Well, not so much when I started at 6am, but eventually. :)

20° temerature differential. In CA, that's what passes for weather. (At least this time of year)

stealthymonkey May 18 2006, 23:04:16 UTC

Nevertheless, this fattiecyclst salutes you and your achievement!

Huzzah!

You're going to sleep like a dead lead log tonight. It's going to be awesome for your body.

Gogo Gadget . . . jd5p May 18 2006, 17:51:53 UTC

Gogo Gadget Power Legs . . . err Lungs . . . err . . . everything.
Awesome man!
Enjoy the greasy goodness . . . you've earned them.

Re: Gogo Gadget . . . eriktheplaid May 18 2006, 18:06:21 UTC

Actually, at the pace we did it (14.5 mph average) it wasn't particularly taxing on those parts. But (and the cyclist in me is ashamed of this) by about mile 40 my back was tired of holding posture. (I probably would have had a better time without the Camelback which, in hindsight, wasn't strictly necessary.)

Re: Gogo Gadget . . . eriktheplaid May 18 2006, 18:52:28 UTC

Oh, and no greasy goodness for me. I weigh in tonight.

clynne May 18 2006, 20:25:56 UTC

Very impressive!

Don't you love the virtuous feeling you get when you're all "and now I will eat this DISGUSTINGLY UNHEALTHY TREAT and STILL HAVE POINTS LEFT!"

eriktheplaid May 18 2006, 21:48:48 UTC

I'm looking forward to it, but I weigh in tonight, so I've been trying to keep my expenditures to a minimum. Once the scale has been mollified, it's off to the GREASY GOODNESS for me.

Matt has been baiting me with peanut-butter filled pretzels at games tonight, and I think I'm going to have a bunch and not worry about it.

georgejas May 18 2006, 21:49:30 UTC

err, dude. i think all that biking may have affected your sanity.

:-)