I did a century - Reach the Beach

It was hard but fun and I never posted about it here because I guess I forgot I have been putting my biking accomplishments up here, but other than the century I have totally wussed out in the biking area, I have not ridden to work recently but immediately after the race I came down with flu/pneumonia-like symptoms, I am still hacking up some gnarly loogies. I am pretty happy about having done this though, if I had to do it again, I would pass, we did one hill that was straight up 800ft of elevation gain, I would rather do rollers all day than have a bunch of giants to conquer and that is what we had sections of giants that made you just want to lay down on the road and call the sag team. Interesting events included seeing (then doing) a run through a graveyards sprinkler system. We tried to keep it as respectful as possible by waiting for the sprinklers to come back to the roads or paths to throw ourselves into them. It was also the hottest set of days I have seen in Oregon spring time it was 95F+. I was also called a genius by several people, as they joined me sitting under the one shade tree on an exceptionally long jaunt through the treeless Oregon farmland. It was fun though!

Biking for the groceries

I successfully biked for groceries yesterday. This included going up a giant hill both directions (I live next to a river, therefore I am in the river vally the only safe route out makes you go up that hill then to get back you have to do that same climb in the other way.) I had to leave my bike outside unguarded as I speedwalked to pick up 2 cartons of milk (skim and whole, whole is for my coffee I am that picky) and three blocks of cheese, I got several odd looks since I was in full bike gear and forgot to take off my helmet. At least the cash register guy was impressed. I need a new bag though my current one is killing me. Though I have found a way to make it fit securely on my back. Anyway thats what I have been up to.

Taking Biking to a whole new area.

Honestly this was just too funny and cool not to share. Taking biking to a whole new level. Some canadians decide to take a piece of art made from an old buick regal and tons of bike parts (a statement about consumption) and take it on a joyride around Toronto. This bike-car hybrid supposedly has a max speed of 9.3 mph(15 km/h.) I say POSH!, lets get the US biking team in that bad boy and show em what that baby can do. Talk about a gas friendly hybrid :).

Sunburn's Nasty Bite

My arms look allot like this guys. This weekend was a lesson why as a coder (usually a dark, yet monitor lit, room dweller) you should not go off on a whim and ride a bike 60+ miles on the sunniest day Oregon has had all spring. I think it should be a lesson to all coders do not let your loved ones convince you to do crazy things like riding 60 miles in training for riding 100 miles. Some will try to throw out the snarky "Heard of Sunblock?" line, but I am a man dangit. I am not wearing no sissy sun block, me and this guy to the left says so. Luckily my arms usually mist over into a tan, I doubt the guy left can say the same.

On the plus side it was fun to ride 60 miles and be like , I did that I went how far I go in a car in one hour, the same distance in 5-6 hours ... ok it does not sound good when you say it that way ... but I have no combustion engine and did it, there that sounds better. The only bad thing is when you are out 15 miles from no where and go "Geez ... if I hit a piece of glass I am screwed because I did not bring an extra tube." It would suck to walk 15 miles to No Where (Dayton, OR) and try to find a tube there. I am not kidding about it being no where, they do not have a single chain restaraunt, and the only stoplight in town is just a blinking light. Careful also the only restroom in the park is a Honeybucket with some suspect liquid puddling in the bottom of the floor. Laters.

Blog of a Tech Fiend

This blog is to be devoted to my tech crap, programming and life in general, but the big news today is I commuted to work today on my brand spanking new Bianchi road bike. It is a 10 mile commute with a ton of large hills, so I am impressed I made it. I have to admit there were times I said, F this I am going to go back to the bus, but I persevered, CARPE DIEM! Yes, it is too cool for school. I decided to start a blog maybe to share random pieces of code and projects I have invented, so enjoy crazy world, though mainly I expect to go unnoticed!