On Sunday, I went for my first single track ride since I crashed.

It scared the shit out of me.

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I wanted to ride my bike to work today. It is about a 12 miles ride, which I can totally handle. I woke up early and remembered that my tires are set at about 30psi, perfect for off road but really sucks for on road. Ideally, I want my tires at about 75-80psi for the road. I went back to sleep for another hour and drove instead ( Read more... )

Vacation was rather uneventful, except one of the boy's aunts puked on my car. It needed to be washed anyhow, so no big deal.

We did ride quite a bit after we got back to the cities until Saturday afternoon. Our ride Saturday was cut short, we had a mile walk back to the lot.

( Because I am so awesome… )

...I rode a BMX bike down Hwy 60 in Windom Saturday night. I was drunk and wearing a dress. We were at a wedding dance and didn't think we should drive to the after party.

Not too sore today. I feel like I did too many push ups. Hopefully this isn't a hurt like hell days later instead of the day after.

Did some pretty serious apartment cleaning today. I can see the top of my dining room table for the first time in 5 months.

Rode the trail the Theo tonight. There was a company there that had demo rides. All of their bikes have 29" wheels instead of 26" like most bikes. I rode one of their bikes and fell in love. The bigger tires gave me a lot more confidence, I cleared obstacles that I have never tried before. Not to mention that there is a huge difference between ( Read more... )

Got the sexy new pedals for my bike tonight. Unfortunately, bike is broken and off at the shop getting fixed. The bottom bracket (part that goes through the frame and attaches cranks and the front gear ring) went to hell over the last week. It is getting fixed for free (under warranty). Looking back, it was going bad before I rode 50+ miles ( Read more... )

Just spent about 20 minutes outside. The fire alarms started going off and woke me up. I gathered up the cats and headed out to see what was happening. Funny thing, this has happened a few times since I moved to this apartment 4 years ago. It is pretty much the only time I hang out with my neighbors ( Read more... )

Went on a epic bike ride yesterday. 27.1 miles around the southern half of Minneapolis. It took me about 2 1/2 hours and I circled every lake except Lake of the Aisles, and that was only because my ass was beyond sore and was starting to chafe ( Read more... )