what. why.

Just yesterday a teacher at my school tried to run 100 miles. He got to 66, but he was doing it on a quarter mile track.

what. why.

Think he just wanted some place people could come out and donate and actually see him ride? Not sure. They've set up live music to play throughout most of the day too

Even when I could run for hours, running on a track would kill me after a mile. I hate them

only if you agree to eat a lot all the time

Today I reset the threaded receptacle plates in my shoes. The SIDI website leads you to believe this is going to be fairly easy. It turns out it's a monster pain in the butt. The insole is 2-3mm thick plastic and is glued down with some sort of super-strength glue that is almost impossible to pry up. I think if I need to do this again I'll just buy new shoes. Lesson learned, be very liberal when applying grease to cleat screws.

Then I added padding to my Toupe since it had a dead spot in the foam on the left side and riding on the hard plastic shell was killing me. This task actually went great. Pulled off the cover, added a small amount of donor foam from an old insole and glued it back together. Works pretty well so far too.

After that I went for a ride to a new town I've never been to before. "Economically depressed" would be an apt description of the areas I rode through. There was also a chicken processing plant in town that produced a very unique smell that was present for several miles around the plant.

Now, I'm going to watch community and take a nap.

um. yes.

Brought another Brooks Pro back from beyond the grave. This one from 1967:

http://www.os2.dhs.org/~john/brooks-1967.jpg

Today I am buildin a rocking chair.

Nice...

Keeping and eye on things here at the shop and enjoying some of the goodies from the Budapest deli that is right across the street.

Bought some lard for seasoning some vintage cast iron picked up and am enjoying some fried bacon and spicy Hungarian sausage...

Some kid's gonna be really lucky (after I get the stem wedge unstuck).
I kinda wanna get one of these for myself and put my 160mm stem in it.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8157/7...1f182e32_b.jpg
2012-05-05_16-36-54_869.jpg by Lester Of Puppets, on Flickr

barrio logan crit cat 3/4: 4th, $100 and a couple pts.

The course is technical and hilly, which is good for me.

I had a bad start and spent the first 1/3 of the race trying to move up without much effort by filling in little gaps, etc.
The race was pretty well strung out and I soon realized I would have to jump up one of the hills to gain significant ground, which I did about halfway.

I spent a lot of time near the front and held my position well in the last couple laps, giving me a great spot to sprint from: 5th wheel, about 150m up a 4-5 grade from the top.

I had two choices:
1) Cut the corner sharper and jump immediately out of the draft
2) Swing wide and try to slingshot at a higher speed

I mistakenly chose 2), just like everyone else. It was enough to cause me to coast after 3 or 4 pedal strokes.
I crossed the line with plenty of sprint left but its aight.

If I can get atleast another $100 tomorrow than Ill for sure spend $5-700 on a sick used hardtail xc style mtb

Still waitin on my package from usps. They are super slow this week. what gives?

take it to the 31, weekend warrior

Today I really wanted to ride. I woke up at 7:00am and promptly fell back asleep until 1:00pm :( I then had to drive around and get my girlfriend

Today my dad bought me a road id, since it was around this time last year I got ran over :rolleyes:

u meant 33 right? what's the 31?

If so than I did first :D.

Today I picked up a brand new set of OP to Suzue pro max with a eai deluxe 16t cog and DA lockring for 220. I am happy. :D

its junior seau day today aka cinco de drinko.

rip

to the 33 and 41. fredelicious!!

that's my MO.

nice number combo btw. u ninja'd my mind.

Today I heard a creaking sound coming from my BB/crank region. I figured I would check it out when I got home, and rode maybe 8 or 10 miles. Got home, checked it out...3 of my chainring bolts were loose.

That could have been terribad.

Today I was missin' the bros Jaytron, Dan, and Jandro as I did my solo ride...

Today's ride (47 miles, 4240 feet elevation) : http://app.strava.com/rides/7946752

Friday night I downloaded a GPX file off mapmyride and dumped it into my Garmin. Then I set off on a journey to beat my old hawk hill record and trace the GPX route, which takes me up a local "mountain" (1300ft, Mt. Tamalpais).

First up was hawk hill. As I was crossing over alexander ave., I noticed a cyclist laying on the ground about 100 feet away, and a car turned at a 45 degree angle towards a double yellow. There was a man in red attempting CPR on the guy laying on the ground, and a crowd of cyclists surrounding. I did not want to venture any closer, so I kept my distance. I could hear sirens, so I knew the paramedics were on their way. This event came dangerously close to halting my ride, but I decided to take a run up hawk hill - 1.7 miles and 501 feet of climbing. I took it at a decent pace, as my head was still running wild with thoughts of that cyclist who was injured, and possibly dead. I beat my old time, and continued on with my ride.

http://www.collectivedesign.net/bike/muir1.jpg

The remaining route was interesting because it was completely foreign to me, and I didn't know what segments I'd encounter, when I'd start climbing, or how much I'd be climbing, so I just took it all at a decent pace. Eventually I came across a familiar climb I had done a few months ago and decided to give it a decent effort. Took a nice personal record on that one as well.

http://www.collectivedesign.net/bike/muir2.jpg

Part of the end goal of today's ride was to meet up with my girlfriend at John Muir woods and go for a hike. I took a bike and she drove, so at the destination, I was able to slip some jeans over the kit, threw on some shoes and went for a 3 mile walk through the woods.

I thought I'd share a few photos :

http://www.collectivedesign.net/bike/muir3.jpg

http://www.collectivedesign.net/bike/muir4.jpg

Near the top of mt. tam (I basically did a loop up and around this mountain) :

http://www.collectivedesign.net/bike/muir5.jpg

During the hike, I found an engraving on a bench I carved 4 years ago. Pretty damn cool that it's still there. I reinforced the "B" :

http://www.collectivedesign.net/bike/muir6.jpg

Sweet day overall. I ended it with some Jack in the Crack. Don't judge me.

nice.

Today I worked. A lot. I also saw this stupid **** online. What the ****.

Just got back from a Black Keys concert, with the Arctic Monkey opening. Twas good.

had a near door experience, but the guy dove back in his car and yelled "sorry!". of course there had to be a car passing me at the time...

wife saw a friend's carbon fiber roadie (Specialized Roubaix): "oh, that's sexy, you should totally get one...". apparently my current rides are not "sexy". :/