Well…after talking about how reliable the bike has been this year, today a pedal broke on the way back from the third ride…just seized up and started screeching and I wonder how? These pedals have sealed bearings so there shouldn’t have been any way that grit could have gotten in them…only had about 8,000 miles on that set but I did have another new set that I bought for the black bike and swapped them for the bad ones…still going to see if I can take it apart and look at it…maybe to salvage them for the black bike…I did get three rides in today and felt pretty good doing it but the wind almost got me off the bike after ride two…it was blowing 20-25 out of the NE so that meant straight into it on the way back…I did get the tacos made today so I’ll have leftovers until next week…okay, have some cleaning to do before the France/Italy soccer match…
Monthly Archives: September 2024
Vance really is awful…
Well…the awfulness oozing from ever pore of JD Vance ratcheted up a notch yesterday when, after 4 people died in another school shooting, he called it a “fact of life” and limiting guns won’t do anything to stop it…and then proposed hardening schools to keep shooters out…and went on and on saying that states without gun laws have fewer mass shootings…yeah, no JD or whatever you’re calling yourself today…when there was an actual ban on assault weapons in the 90′s, you never saw these kind of mass shootings happening every day like you do now…and this moron wants kids to be scared all the time since fear is what they use to keep their followers coming back to their strongman acts…I’ve had enough of this crap coming out of every repub…the “thoughts and prayers” bullshit that happens after every one of these shootings…so get out and vote and lets take all parts of the government so something will be done about this crap…geez…
September 6th
Well…I feel like I’m running late today since I didn’t get out of bed til 6:30 or so and need to get back on the bike by 8 or so…it’s not as cold as forecast but tonight is going to be in the 40′s…but next week is back into the 80′s so I may get one more trip out to the beach…it was nice to get a swim in yesterday and I would like one more…slept okay last night but I still feel worn out today…with taking an easy day yesterday, I was hoping I’d get some relief from the pain and I did get a little, but I’m going to hurt myself again today…25 or 38 miles? Not sure yet….I did get errands done yesterday so today is just a normal day with more cleaning and cooking in it…going to make soft tacos but I do need to control my calorie intake if I’m not going to do three rides…darn, making the goal on the bike has taken away the motivating factor for dragging my butt out and getting on the bike so I guess I’ll have to switch to calorie counting again…not much to do today…it rained for a whole 10 minutes last night but that won’t help my lawn much…oh, well…it’s getting light and I need to get moving….more later…
A few stats…
Well…earlier I promised a few stats on getting to the goal on the bike today so here they are…first, the bike has been pretty darn reliable with how many miles it has on it…nothing mechanical broke but I did have 3 flats on the rear and replaced 2 tires so that needed 3 tubes and I had to replace the front tire, too…rode 4,803 miles out doors and divided by the 12.5 miles in each loop makes it 384 laps around the loop…and I rode 2302 miles on the indoor bike at 8 miles a ride and that means I climbed on that thing 288 times since the start of the year and tomorrow I go back on 38 miles a day…maybe…who knows? I am going to order the new driveline for the bike this week so I can replace it all in a couple of weeks…will probably install the used stuff on the black bike sine I won’t ride that one much…
Of course they were…
Well…I wonder what’s behind the surprise when two Russians were arrested for funneling 10 million dollars into the pockets of right wing influencers through a company called Tenet Media? After all, Russia has bought the repub party from top to bottom and you just have to listen to them to know when they are spouting Russia supplied talking points..which is all the time…and these people, like tucker carlson knew exactly what was happening so that makes them traitors who should be tried for treason…and of course all of the people who took the money are now saying they were duped into taking the money and had no clue the millions had come from Russia,,,they are “victims” not collaborators…yeah, that’s a frickin laugh…when more comes out, I think it will be a surprise how deep the corruption goes in the repub party…this is just the start…geez..
I made it!
Well…with the first and only ride in this morning, I hit the goal of riding 100 miles for each year of my age…7,105 miles so far and I still have almost 4 more months to ride…still have the goal of riding every day to meet and if I can get 1,500 more miles in, I will have ridden 20,000 miles in the last three years…lots more than I’ve driven my car…I’ll come back later for some stats on the year but I need to make lunch and go to the beach…more later…
September 5th
Well…damn, running late this morning with not getting out of bed til almost 7…have been sleeping pretty well…for me…and that is just so unusual I’ve been trying to figure out what the heck has changed to allow me to do that…it’s been 30 years since I’ve slept well and I wonder if it has something to do with the weight I’ve lost? Whatever it is, I still feel worn out today and it’s going to take a while to get moving….have a lot to do today even with just doing one ride to get to the goal today…can’t figure out why I’m sore from head to toe with a dull aching pain that is punctuated with sharp ones from my knees and elbows….just old, I guess…need to get on the bike in 30 minutes or so but I’ll be juggling time to get everything done today…I do want to hit the beach for the last time this summer but need to go to the library, city hall, depot, and Kohls so I’ll be pretty busy…and I do need to cook today but I’m not sure what that will be…want to make some more pasta salad and I took the last of the burger out of the freezer to make tacos but that won’t be til tomorrow…it’s going to be cold starting tomorrow with highs in the 60′s and lows in the 40′s but then it will warm up again….summer is winding down and I wonder where it went…more later…
Almost there…
Well…after doing three rides today, I only have a little under 8 miles to ride to get to the goal of 7,100 miles…and I still have almost 4 months to continue to add miles so it’s easy to say that this will be the record year that I will never attain again…it has been a heck of a lot of work to get to this point and I am so darn sore today since I only came back here to refill the water bottle and then right back on the bike…and I went pretty hard the whole way…I do need a light day with how badly I hurt everywhere so I’m thinking I may just do one ride tomorrow since I have a lot of things I need to get done…have to hit the library, pay the water bill and taxes at city hall, and I want to go out to Kohls to look for end of summer clearance sales since I do need some new shirts and maybe a pair of shorts that actually fit me…and the soles my riding shoes are worn down to flat so they won’t grip the pedals anymore so I’ll take a look and see if I can find a new pair of those, too…
Trying to find a topic…
Well…have been so darn busy today with doing the grocery run and then getting three rides in that I haven’t been able to find a topic…yet…okay, here’s one…I am a little confused why Kamala Harris is only up by 13 points with women…who are the women who would vote for a rapist who ended Roe? With the idiot trump’s running mate spouting off ever day about women and how they should be put in their place and not even be allowed to vote…please show me the woman who wants that? I wonder if they are asking the right questions in the polls…like “would you vote for a candidate who wants to take away your right to vote like he did Roe? I know being up 13 points is historically a lot but it should be 23 or 100…it’s still a close race and it shouldn’t be…and I’m going to be nervous until the day after the election…geez…
September 4th
Well…damn, I’m sore this morning and I could barely pour coffee my right elbow hurts so much…I should be on the indoor bike right now but I think I’m going to skip it today…I’ll still hit the goal this week but need some healing time by only doing two rides today….I need to do the grocery run this morning but only two stores since DD doesn’t have any bargains I want…it’s only 50 degrees out there so I wonder if I’ll put the top down on the car? Of course…don’t have a lot to do today but I want to make pasta salad again so I’ll have a side for whatever I cook…I think I’m going to make tacos with the pound of burger I have in the freezer and use up the tortillas I have in the fridge…don’t have a lot of stuff to do today after getting the lawn mowed yesterday but I really should clean the bathroom and kitchen and I just might…it’s going to be weird to just sit here and have coffee until I need to do the grocery run but I’m so damn tired that I need it….and that’s even with sleeping okay…oh, well…more later…