Kamikaze birds and minor milestones
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Kamikaze birds and minor milestones
So yesterday morning on my way home at 5am (3rd shift W/odd hours) im a half mile into the MUP potion of my ride (2mi road, 1.5 mi mup, 2mi road; short and sweet) cookin' along, WHAP! straight accross the glasses. Didn't really slow me down or hurt me, I just kept going albeit a bit dazed and confused. It didn't feel like a branch, it felt light and twiggy but firm and strangely soft. My best guess was 'bird' but I wanted to rule out branch, so this morning I pointed one of my lights up a bit. Sure enough, about half a mile in here comes this crazy bird flying at my face and swooping around in front of me. Stuck with me for about twenty yards. The city came through and cut back a bunch of overgrowth earlier this week, they probably destroyed its nest.
Then when I got home I was all happy about hitting 1000 miles for the year so far. (actually I probably hit it two weeks ago, but my first 3.5 weeks, starting mid March, my crappy old computer kept reseting itself; got a new one mid April) Then I logged into BF and theres some creep braggin' about 10,000 hmmph.
just kiddin'
Congrats to Nutcase, thats quit an achievement! You have my humble respect and admiration sir!
But for a newbie commuter, I'll be satisfied with my 1k for a while, and the 12 pounds missing from my waist to go with it.
Then when I got home I was all happy about hitting 1000 miles for the year so far. (actually I probably hit it two weeks ago, but my first 3.5 weeks, starting mid March, my crappy old computer kept reseting itself; got a new one mid April) Then I logged into BF and theres some creep braggin' about 10,000 hmmph.
just kiddin'
Congrats to Nutcase, thats quit an achievement! You have my humble respect and admiration sir!
But for a newbie commuter, I'll be satisfied with my 1k for a while, and the 12 pounds missing from my waist to go with it.
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Oh no, another mileage-number obsessed OCD case. Maybe the universe is trying to send you a message by having a bird whack you in the face :-)
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So yesterday morning on my way home at 5am (3rd shift W/odd hours) im a half mile into the MUP potion of my ride (2mi road, 1.5 mi mup, 2mi road; short and sweet) cookin' along, WHAP! straight accross the glasses. Didn't really slow me down or hurt me, I just kept going albeit a bit dazed and confused. It didn't feel like a branch, it felt light and twiggy but firm and strangely soft. My best guess was 'bird' but I wanted to rule out branch, so this morning I pointed one of my lights up a bit. Sure enough, about half a mile in here comes this crazy bird flying at my face and swooping around in front of me. Stuck with me for about twenty yards. The city came through and cut back a bunch of overgrowth earlier this week, they probably destroyed its nest.
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Plan Epsilon Around Lake Michigan in the era of Covid
Old School…When It Wasn’t Ancient bikepacking
Gold Fever Three days of dirt in Colorado
Pokin' around the Poconos A cold ride around Lake Erie
Dinosaurs in Colorado A mountain bike guide to the Purgatory Canyon dinosaur trackway
Solo Without Pie. The search for pie in the Midwest.
Picking the Scablands. Washington and Oregon, 2005. Pie and spiders on the Columbia River!