re: #63 wrenchwench

Happy birthday RidesBikesSteve!

re: #64 compound_Idaho

I don’t think your should feel guilty about that meal. Well balanced, keep the portions under control. You’re good to go.

I’ve only competed 52 yrs of life, but I have already run 70 miles this week and I have a 30 mile run scheduled for tomorrow. It is a bit of an accounting gimmick (I had to move my weekly long run up one day, so I will have two long runs in the same week), but all the same; I will log 100 miles on my feet this week for the first time in my life.

Many of my “healthy/clean” eating friends (no sugar, not meat ….) can’t run to the end of the block.

PS cycling is a great great form of exercise.

PS I just wish I could get the booze under control, but I do like whiskey and beer.

I am not a good runner. I have absolutly no sense of rhythm, and as a friend of mine told me, “You spend more energy doing everything BUT moving forward”. That and the army kind of took the joy out of it for me.

I love my bikes (all but 1 are recumbents), give me another 5 or 6 weeks and I’ll be right back at my usual 150 or so miles per week. Planning to do a tour called “Ride the Fault”, 400 miles in 7 days around SE Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkansas. They carry the gear (nice change), be a lot of fun. It’s a pretty area, the roads are flat, flat and more flat. There was more climbing on one day when I did a solo tour of Kentucky than this ride has all week.

Never look back…. just cuz.

RBS