My birthday party was last night. I'm beyond hungover. ****.

Happy birthday!

now go eat a double bacon cheeseburger with fries stat.

And get me one too cuz im starving

Happy bday Bryan.

Today I'm forever trolled by weather forecasts again

Called in sick with a migraine. My wife wants me to go on a preventative, but doctor won't be available till Wednesday. So instead, I just finished up my new front wheel.

next up is therapist shopping and homework. Sick days suck as an adult.

Patty melt, cheesy fries, and beer. Hangover is on the run.

hells yeah, eat ALL the grease and cheese

Today I got into a Coffee War on Twitter and then started another one on Facebook because woo.

Today I'm in pain after pushing myself way too hard in my road race yesterday. Took part in a breakaway way too early, got stuck in front for too long, bonked, got dropped. My noobness is still showing; at least I avoided the two nasty crashes and finished in one piece.

Overall, how was the experience? Lately I've been really interested in doing some racing, but I want to make sure I'll enjoy it before I go and invest a bunch of money in a road bike and other racing related stuff.

35 to 50 Mph winds gusts! Felt like I was Sailing!

Rode home from Santa Monica after babysitting my little cousin for the night. Just ate the biggest sandwich.

It's fun, but I'm not totally addicted or sure I'll continue yet. I haven't invested much, and you don't have to... I feel like I'm not being held back by my cheapish china carbon bike yet, I'm being held back 99% by my body. It's crazy how much some of the other cat 5 guys have already invested into their setups though... a lot of guys are running super nice wheels worth more than my entire setup combined. I thought I was in pretty good shape and would be able to hang, or maybe it's just that there's so many competitive (and rich) guys here in Cali that makes cat 5 tougher than usual, but I've got a long ways to go before I'll be competitive. This was only my 2nd race, I'm going to keep racing and see how it goes, but I really need to step up my training.

CAT 6 everybody you see....good training!

Had to share:

Making it out of a Cat 5 race alive is its own achievement.

I think you were the one that met my friend Jandro at one of the early bird clinics?

Haha, thanks. One of the guys from the first big crash was screaming in so much pain, it was tough to hear and watch. That reminds me, I think I'm one of the only guys who hasn't shaved my legs yet, I better get on that if I want to be serious about this racing thing.

Yeah, I met Jandro at my first road race actually, the Patterson early bird road race. Good guy. I also did one of those early bird training crits, but didn't see him there. I've also yet to make it out to one of the SF WPH rides despite saying I'm going to... I'm just always in so much pain after going hard on the weekends to try and keep up with a ride like that on Monday night.

Today I got in a productive 50 miles, put the shimano pedals back on the bearings on the mavic pedals got rough really quick.

What kind of miles on them?

800 miles, I'm probably going to try to rebuild them the next snow day.

Today I would like to get up on some of these experimental Lay's flavours.

Holy ****, Chicken and Waffles!? I gotta go check the store.

I would definitely try the sriacha ones, the chicken waffles one, not so much...

I wanna try each individually then dump both into a bowl and mix thoroughly

I've put on about 8 pounds in the last month. My diet hasn't changed so I'm going to attribute it to weight lifting, which I am coincidentally about a month into.

Last time I was 190 I was pretty worried. Set some PB's today, though. Bigger engine is never bad, right?

If your diet and workouts are perfect, you should only be able to put on a pound of muscle a week.

https://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/maki2.htm

Just raining on your parade is all <3