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.

Monday, October 29, 2007

Making new friends


The kind of friends an old Xracer makes. The hills in my new Island home are fun. Steep, hard, covered in dark of the forest, some out in the open. Non of the climbs are long by mountain standards, nothing over 2.5 miles +- to the top. I find that a few of the climbs are so much fun I do them twice on a training day. Well everyday I ride is a training day. Just the habits of an Xracer. Who knows though I may do a race or 2 next season. This years has been such a great year of growing and training.I'm so much stronger than I once was. It feels very good to hang out with the young guy on all carbon and Campy. He tried to drop me, but saw that was not going to happen. Little victories. I saw that guy training when Mary Anne and I were in the van doing some shopping. There are a lot of riders on the south part of this Island. Quiet roads, good climbs and just the right amount of mileage. Not that I look at mileage so much. It's more hours anymore. 3 to 4 hours at a time. With these hills the mileage is not so important. It's the work that counts. Mary Anne is gone on an adventure for a few days so I'm going to get out everyday and test the legs a bit. My new winter tights got here today from Competitive Cyclist in Little Rock Ar. Super warm tenax windfront Roubaix bib tights from Giordana. I hope they last as well as my 25 year old tights! Also I got a new wheel today. It's the match to my rear wheel for the #2 winter bike. Can't go out unmatched. So it was kind of a party of bike stuff today. Plus I got out for a 2 hour ride and found some new hills. Hard one's to. I got a flat half way up the longest climb of the ride. Oh, it was raining. Always fun to get that all over you. It's like your hands wear the dirt from the bike. Ya, it was the rear wheel. So, an adventure of sorts. Got home in time to clean up hang out with Mary Anne then boom she was out the door to the airport. Man I miss her already. So I got the new wheel all ready with tire and tube. Fixed the flat tube, wash the riding gear and here I am. Ready to go at it again. Looking forward to the ride. Looking forward to the other riders I know I will be seeing. It's a small Island.
The map is the new training camp. I have done almost all the roads. The goal is to stay off hwy 525, it's got a big shoulder, but is busy and loud. So the idea is to cross back and forth on the good roads and stay off hwy 525. I'm learning that more every day.
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