When hearts attack!

I went balls out on the treadmill today and my heart almost exploded. It was the most intense chest pain I've ever had. It felt like my heart was going to hatch into a baby chick and the baby chick was cracking away with its egg tooth at my atrium. Some rather uncomfortable shit.

I've been mixing up the routine with some cross training. A little swimming, a little running, a little outside, a lot of trainer rides, with just the right amount of weight training for seasoning. Its a soufflé of fitness.

WHITE POWdER!

It was snowing sideways today when Ben and I went riding. Ben's finally back on the bike from his knee injury and was happy to be riding again. It's awesome that under the most miserable conditions, we laugh and crack jokes. I'd hate to ride with anybody less crazy and funny than Ben, especially during a snow storm. I think anybody else would have bitched out and stayed inside.

brake job

Successfully installed stoppers on my car! Man, working on cars makes me feel amazing. I got under the geo, leg pressed it off the ground (well, a slight breeze assisted me) then changed my brake pads without spilling my beer. I think i'm going to hit someone and start some ruckus.

The danger in procrastination

The longer i wait to ride, the closer i come to darkness.

in other news, the punk rock road bike has been completely stripped of paint! I went to contender yesterday and picked up the elusive teardrop seatpost clamp. This will soon be a checkered demon... little by little. Need to make me some cool stencils...

Yesterday's ride was quite rad. It leaves me wishing that the cycling scene in Ogden were more than just fixie twats and pretentious lawyers on shitty treks with Zipp wheels.

oh well.

Cool breeze, red leaves, and graveyard shifts

October rides are probably some of my favorite. I love the cooler temperatures and the easier, long distance rides. Today's ride was an eighty mile stroll through West Warren, Plain City, Brigham City and Honeyville. I took a jacket because the sky looked ominous but it never rained. The clouds and the earth just kinda sandwiched everything. Pretty rad.

This time of year always reminds me of Jeannina. It reminds me of Swimming. It reminds me of all the after school rides, trying to beat the sunset home. I love October.

I started working at Lifetime in the middle of this week. The tasks are all relatively easy and mindless: place a specific part on a specific area on a specific rack that rolls through on an assembly line. repeat for hours. The hardest thing for me has been adjusting to the hours, which are 4:30pm to 3:15am. It doesn't bother me though, because i get to ride my bike during the day. The extra sunlight will hopefully keep me from getting bummed out. If not, then at least my stacked schedule will.

Let's Start Today

Today is the first day of the rest of my life...or maybe i'll die. In that case, it will be the last day of the rest of my life. In either case, I finally start working at Lifetime in Layton. I get about two and a half weeks of work until i start taking evening classes at Steven Henagers. Good thing its only a temp place and they're accustomed to people bailing after only two weeks.

inside thoughts from the inside... deep.

Yesterday...
If you wanna be a "G", pimp the hell out of the North ogden divide.

Is the road to powder mountain a portal to hell?

Old Snowbasin Rd: Anything after powder mountain seems flat.

Trappers loop: Remember when this used to be hard?


Today...
Always know where the town signs are. Never tell the new guy what you're up to either.

Riding with old people is hazardous to your ego so bring your climbing legs

Gatorade is a great motivator.

"I think that one guy had a motor on his bike"

Take off your helmet and sit on a rock when you beat your comrades up a hill.

TRP brakes suck, so just don't use them when you descend.