Highway of Death

No, it's not that serious. Just a note of the huge amount of wildlife in and on the side of the road. More than I can ever remember seeing in the past. Spring has the wildlife, well, being wild. That does not get along with the domestic world of speed and controlled space. Food for someone in the passing. The vultures are everywhere as I have noted in the past. Vultures waste nothing, and their energy, is never wasted.
My new riding position on the bike is starting to work. Muscles I never knew I had are starting to pop up out of my legs. Good thing. I need ever muscle I have to make the bike get up hills. Working in the smaller gears is working out better than I had hoped. It is exciting to see this new program start to work. My thighs are doing more of the work now than my calf's. I hope to find a good balance. I shaved my legs for the season to. That helps a lot. Ya, right.
Also I took my winter bike and re-built it with Campy parts. Tried the new crank set with the bottom bracket bolted together in the middle. It is just sweet to install and has NO flex at all. Works for me. I'll buy another higher end one for the #1 bike when I can afford it. Most likely a carbon one. Boy do they cost. All in all the winter bike went out and rode almost like my #1 bike. Shifted great like ALL Campy bikes do. I also put new Mavic wheels on the bike. That always helps a lot. Now I can change wheels from one bike to the other no problems. Everything one bike has will work on the other. It makes for a good system. Happy Me.
Watched 2 movies in the past 3 days. "the Pursuit of Happyness". Will Smith and Jaden Christopher Syre Smith. Others for sure. Good movie, though a bit serious for my current taste. I will not be watching this one soon again, but I liked it alot. It was a great movie. The other movie was "Wild Hogs". Just stupid fun at the theater. Ya, we paid for the night out. Pop corn, soda, something chocolate. Good seats. There were 6 people in the theater watching this movie with us. Everyone else had sense enough to go to Pirates 3 ? or another movie. It was opening night for another Pirate movie. I'll wait for the DVD. We had great fun at the "Wild Hogs" movie. All 6 of us in the room were laughing out loud, and very loud. Stupid but fun. Not very much swearing. The movie was just good laughs for an hour and a half. I'm good for that. No not a great movie like "the Pursuit of Happyness". Just,,, fun. I'll watch the Hogs movie again in the near future for the laughs.
My Mom is getting along slowly from her fall last week. Took her to the doctors office. Boy that was fun. It was just difficult. So no broken bones. We knew that! Take this pain pill. That's about it. Take a pain pill, go home. So Mom is at home healing slowly as an 82 years old does. Mary Anne and I got the food set up at her place. Mary Anne has been so kind to call on the phone. She knows I do not like talking to my Mom to much. Also Mary Anne took Mom a Wendy's treat of cheese burger and a Frosy. My Mom love that stuff and gets very little of it. Right now it's just to hard for her to get around in her apartment. Any small favor helps. One day at a time.
So I go out on another ride today. There is a nice race on a course I first promoted a race on in 1980s somethings. There still using the course. It's hard, we ran the District Road Race Championship on it to. That tells you something. I'll pass on the race though. Not in my training plans. I need several more weeks of this training to feel comfortable enough to race on these new legs. I still want to go to the track though. I may only race track anyway. Never liked road racing. Though with these new legs might be worth the effort. So I will go out on a 60 miler today. Do my drill. Keep the faith. Say the prayers to the long road. Ride the circuit once again.