About Me

I'm a bicycle rider. More to the truth I train on the bike to stay fit as I get older. I train to fight off the age. Diebedes, high blood pressure, trigeminal neuralgia, unwanted weight and the problems from that to. There is a host of other age related fun to. I let myself put on 110 pounds over about the last 12 years. Then the body just had enough. I was falling apart. So I started doing the only thing I knew how to do. Train on the bike. I was a competitive Cyclist from 1979 to about 1992. I gave it all up. Bad choice. In the end I would have been far better off on the bike. Oh well. The lessons continue. That's really the truth of it. The lessons continue. Everyday, every moment. Everything is connected all the time. Well, that's how I see the Universe for me. How you see it, is your business. Ah freedom of thought. I got married to a wonderful woman March 21st 2007. The love of my life. It's true! It took all these 58 years to get ready to love this one beautiful woman. A writer of poems. A writer of pros. So many people know her already.

Thursday, July 19, 2007

What to do


Mary Anne is still on the book tour. I'm at home doing home stuff. Taking care of big dog, riding, doing the chores. Writing Mary Anne more emails than I can remember at anytime. I miss her so much. Running up the mins on the cel phone to. Not that I have ever gone over my monthly mins. Best use them. Good use to.
The question is do I do a race on Sunday. It's a hill climb time trial. Larch Mountain, 16.63 miles of fun. 13. something miles all up hill. 3300' of elevation gain. Not the best choice for a big guy. It's a flea race. The smaller you are the better your chances. Most of the time. It's a non contact race though. No peliton to deal with, crossing wheels and all that. So it's a safe race for an old fart like me. The best time I have seen in the records is 55 mins or something like that. That's just flying up that mountain. I think I will be like most. Plus one hour. The question is how much plus. As a heavy rider I am best suited for flat time trials. I do pretty good on those. Well that's not this race. I would like to do a hour 15 mins or even an hour 22 mins. More than that I will just go ride the course on my own sometime. I did some calculations on how fast I need to go and it seems a bit faster than I may be able to push the gears going up hill. Now doing the hill is a piece of cake. Getting a good time is another story. Though I have just finished stripping my #1 bike of everything to bring the bike weight down. My #1 bike weighs about 17 pounds with nothing on it. Water bottles, road kit (extra tubes and co2 to fill the tubes) Anything that will not be needed on a short run up hill. It's not like I have some carbon fiber wheels. I just will not need to carry any extra weight up the hill. I have enough extra weight on me. Sigh. So I'm just going back and forth on this. I would love to do the race. My group of 55 to 59 years old riders will only have 5 to 10 riders. Last year the fastest time was hour 9 mins I think. the slowest time was an hour 28 mins. Something like that. So I would like to be in that time range. Anymore why pay to race what I can do for free anytime.
So I am still walking the floors and looking for the right answer. Any answer would do right now.
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