The next two weekends should prove to be pretty fun filled and interesting.
Next weekend, May 2nd I will be headed to Chicago to hangout with some great friends and listen to great music. I'm going to be going to the Horse Feathers show and I am so excited about it. I just got their new album in the mail the other day and can't stop listening to it.
The weekend after that, May 9th I will be doing a Wems race up in Green Bay. For anyone that may not know what that is: its a 12 hour mountain bike race. I'll be doing it on either a 3 person or 4 person team. During the race you generally will ride for three hours, one hour out on the lap, wait while your team mates are out, go out again, wait, etc.
Other than that I've just been sitting around, still doing around 11 miles a day, and occasionally doing around 20 mile, rides weather depending.
This past weekend I went to MKE and tried to do a 60 mile road ride with other members of Team Pegasus. Yeah...that didn't work to well for me. I am definitly not up to the calibur they all are, and on top of that, I was riding clipless (haven't done that in a year), and on a road bike (haven't ridden gears in longer), I also forgot my inhaler (ugh duh), so after around 5 or so miles I headed back. I felt terrible for constantly making the team slow down/stop so I could catch up, so it was probably for the best that I just dropped and left. My goal someday is to be able to keep up, but I know thats a long way off, especially with leaving the state/country every few months.
I did save a turtle on the way back to the car though, so that was good. Spent the rest of the day reading and sitting in the sun, so overall it was an okay day.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
if a tlark bike rides in the forest and no ones around, did it happen?
As of late I have been on a mission to get myself out of the house every day for exercise. Right now living at my parents house, and not having a job or even any friends in town, its really easy to let myself become lazy and just slump on the couch all day. I really want to get in shape and work on my biking, so lately I've been rotating riding and running (mainly running on days it seems way to windy to want to ride).
Tonight I decided to ride towards Point Beach State park, which is roughly 11 miles away from my house, so a pretty easy ride for the night. On the way I took the Mariners trail, which is a beautiful easy ride along the lake all the way to Two Rivers.
After following the 5.5 mile trail into TR I only had to ride maybe five minutes through the town to get to the next bike path. This one is called the Rawley Point bike trail, and it goes through a "pine and hemlock forest" and takes you right up to the parking lot for the state park.
This trail started a little harder than the last, mainly because it wasn't paved (crushed gravelish??) and I was on my track bike with thin tires that kept trying to get stuck in other peoples tire grooves. But I pushed on, and came to the point where the trail meets the road and I could have either:
a. hopped on the road and followed it the rest of the way to the park
b. continued on the trail into the forest, even though I most def was not on the right type of bike
c. turned around and gone home
Well I went with ... B! Yes I took my poor little fixed gear into the forest, running over sticks and stones, through dirt and mud, snow piles, and hopping on and off of wooden bridges. Overall it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, and I actually got pretty far into the forest before deciding to take a break re-fuel and head back (the sun was getting mighty low and I was w/o lights).
Me looking oh so cool in the forest: It was warm enough today to ride w/o a jacket the whole time!!
My poor dear bike that puts up with so much abuse and still keep kickin'.
On the way back home a deer ran out on the trail in front of me. I love nature.
The reason I've been riding out to this park in particular is because I actually have an interview with them on saturday. I think it would sound good to the interviewer if I was able to say that I ride out to the park on a regular basis, and that I've even been on some of the trails. You know, makes me look like I'm outdoorsy and have an interest in the park.
Well....thats all for now!
Tonight I decided to ride towards Point Beach State park, which is roughly 11 miles away from my house, so a pretty easy ride for the night. On the way I took the Mariners trail, which is a beautiful easy ride along the lake all the way to Two Rivers.
After following the 5.5 mile trail into TR I only had to ride maybe five minutes through the town to get to the next bike path. This one is called the Rawley Point bike trail, and it goes through a "pine and hemlock forest" and takes you right up to the parking lot for the state park.
This trail started a little harder than the last, mainly because it wasn't paved (crushed gravelish??) and I was on my track bike with thin tires that kept trying to get stuck in other peoples tire grooves. But I pushed on, and came to the point where the trail meets the road and I could have either:
a. hopped on the road and followed it the rest of the way to the park
b. continued on the trail into the forest, even though I most def was not on the right type of bike
c. turned around and gone home
Well I went with ... B! Yes I took my poor little fixed gear into the forest, running over sticks and stones, through dirt and mud, snow piles, and hopping on and off of wooden bridges. Overall it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, and I actually got pretty far into the forest before deciding to take a break re-fuel and head back (the sun was getting mighty low and I was w/o lights).
Me looking oh so cool in the forest: It was warm enough today to ride w/o a jacket the whole time!!
My poor dear bike that puts up with so much abuse and still keep kickin'.
On the way back home a deer ran out on the trail in front of me. I love nature.
The reason I've been riding out to this park in particular is because I actually have an interview with them on saturday. I think it would sound good to the interviewer if I was able to say that I ride out to the park on a regular basis, and that I've even been on some of the trails. You know, makes me look like I'm outdoorsy and have an interest in the park.
Well....thats all for now!
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