My car (Ford Escape) is now almost exactly 5 years old… I think I got it in May 2003. Anyway, I rolled over 5-8’s today while driving to Chattanooga for the Georgia Cup race.
About an hour later, I picked up another stone chip on my windshield driving I-565 through Huntsville, Alabama…. The other one (upper) one I got while Andrea was driving my car coming back from the Pepper Crit last September (that one was on US78 in rural Mississippi)….
Today was a good long day in the saddle. Andrea and I rode out to Outdoors (as usual) but we added some extra bits… At the Shelby Forest Store we heard that the river (the MIssissippi) had flooded out the access road (Jackson Hill Road)…so we diverted from the group to check it out…..
So after looking at the flooded road, we doubled back up the hill (one of bigger ones around town) and rode back to mid-town. She remembered seeing a good stencil on a boarded-up gas pump on Union Ave, so we decided to stop and capture it on my phone…
I am not sure what this (”we win”) has to do with a boarded up gas pumps (this station probably was robbed too many times), but the artistry is pretty good and well done. In the end, I do hope more people will realize how many useless trips are taken and endeavor to reduce them….
In all, I got about 79 miles which is probably the furthest I have ridden in a while in one go. In the middle, there was (as usual) a sprited section going through Benjestown to the Shelby Forest Store.. I was able to put in a few good efforts that make me a believer in the longer leg extension. I probably will try to get up to the position that Rod suggested, but I am going to leave it alone (at part of the way there) through the next couple weeks (including Chattanooga Georgia Cup race and the Mississippi Gran Prix).
And I pulled the trigger on my e-file for my taxes… I had to pay $300 this year instead of the usual $100… Sold my Apple stock last year at pretty big profit (on a small position) to buy my Kuota.
This morning Memphis is covered with several inches of snow that looks like it will hang around for a while… another trainer day, but that can wait.
Here are some short movies I took of Andrea’s dogs playing in the snow.
Her Jack Russel:
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Her Belgian Malinois:
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The crazy weather continues in Memphis today (extreme weather perhaps..what could possibly cause that?). Last Saturday, I was racing a few hours away in Little Rock with 75F temperatures…. Today, the temperature dropped along with a winter storm giving Memphis the first real snow of the year. As I write this there is about 2″ of snow on the ground and the temperature is dropping below freezing.. So it is not looking good for riding tomorrow morning. So rode as long as I could stand on the rollers (which today was about 45 minutes).
Last night, I helped Andrea put her new groupo on her Blue bike that she got in the fall last year. She got her new SRAM Red groupo yesterday. Due to the weather, the maiden voyage will have to wait, but it sure does look good. I am still waiting for my Felt FC frame (expected this month) and my own SRAM Red group. I have been riding Force since I got my Kuota last April. I am looking forward to the improvements over Force. After getting a chance to handle the parts during the installation makes me all the more excited to get it myself. From everything I have heard, the demand has been great for this group. I think it is well deserved. Shimano and Campy should be worried.
Really it has been a crazy week in Memphis starting off last weekend when someone decided to slaughter a household of people. This “Lester Street Massacare” is giving Memphis another black mark after a number of recent “worst of” lists which put us up there in “fattest” (pork ribs anyone?) or just a bad place to do business (no citation, sorry). Aerotropolis? That is the concept that Memphis is pushing to be to get something going to leverage the air freight trade in/out of Memphis Airport.
But in the end, living anywhere is what you make of it. Memphis is not the best place I have lived, but I would say that life here is not that bad. It has it’s problems, but they are manageable.
The next post will be #100. I started this thing last April as an experiment to see how it would go, as a creative outlet, and a place to post up photos.
After getting home from work, Memphis has been and continues to be in the middle a tornado watch / warning. As one of the larger cells passed through the area, I sat down under the stairs in my garage and worked on my TT bars and waited….
So far, so good and I think the worst has past. I haven’t lost power (yet?) and decided to blog my TT shifter installation. All I need is for my frame and build kit to arrive (mid-Feb?) and then I will convert my Kuota to a TT bike…
Here is a quick overview (WMC TV5). Today it was in the mid-70’s and now a cold front is moving through creating some pretty extreme weather. This is the sort of stuff that climate change doubters can’t explain, but are all too quick to say something when there is a winter day in the 20’s. Averages and temperature differentials….
As an alumni of Michigan Tech, I get these newsletters about what’s going on… today it was more interesting than normal. As part of the annual winter carnival, some artists are doing a stunt where they are freezing a old Chevy Nova into a block of ice. Anyway, here is the link to the blog…
I was looking around my place and I quickly found 4 race numbers scattered about in different places. The numbers were basically left where I unpinned them from the jersey for the wash….
After xmas I found myself with a bag full of random Hersey’s Kisses. I started to unwrap them and put them in a storage container…. I then I had a revelation, why not melt them all together and make a bar… I heated them up on low-heat in the microwave for a few minutes and let it cool…
To eat, I have been cutting slices off of this. I ate a little after my ride this morning and it was good.
Speaking of the ride, the setback seatpost on my Ridley Crossbow (my CX A-bike) has been a very good thing. I think I am getting more power to the pedals on the road the two times I have used it. States is tomorrow, so I will see how that translates to racing off the road.
I saw this on my old team’s forum. It is sort of stupid, but I like it.
Here is what I came up with.
Go ahead try it. Tell me something about yourself.
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