Well…with how bad I felt yesterday, I was really concerned that it was going to continue today…but, I felt good on the bike and got my 38 miles in before 11am and I still feel pretty good now after having lunch…it might have helped that I ate a Kind bar and put an electrolyte tablet in my final bottle of water…I did eat a little extra yesterday so that helped, too…and I’m going to grill some chicken thighs and brats to have food for a couple of days after the soccer match that is on…have to change a light bulb on the side of the garage since it burned out this morning…going to start using the CFL’s that I took out of the fixtures in here since I have a box full of them downstairs…it was pretty crowded on the trail with the Seaway run this morning and thousands of runners taking part…so the second ride was mostly done on the road but that didn’t bother me in the least…it’s nice that they do events here and the art fair is on today and tomorrow so I may ride down there tomorrow…

Well…running a little late this morning with not getting out of bed til after 6 and I feel just worn out and it is going to be a struggle to get moving today…the rain that was supposed to be 100% today has now been reduced to 4% so no relief for the lawn and that sucks…and I think I’m giving up on the garden…it’s all dying and I’m tired of worrying about it…don’t know what I’m doing wrong but I’ve never had trouble with it until I moved out here…oh, well…not sure what I’m going to cook today but I do need to cook something…took some brats and chicken thighs out of the freezer but I’m not sure if they will be thawed to grill today…okay, the brats are but I just took the chicken out of the fridge to sit on the table for a bit so I can cook them both…need to marinate the chicken with teriyaki sauce to see how that tastes…there is a running race on this morning so the trails will be crowded this morning and and art show downtown today but I’m not sure if I’m going to walk down there…we are going to have a record low of 50 tomorrow night and the heat will come on…in June, in Michigan….weird…not much to do today…I should do three rides outdoors today but I don’t think I have the energy for it…I guess we’ll see after I get out for the first ride here in 20 minutes…more later…

Well…it’s been a pretty crappy day today with not feeling well at all and the rain still stayed away…again…while it has been raining all day just a little south of here…and I had a flat on the bike where the valve stem just blew out of the tube…luckily, I had two new tubes in the cabinet and now I’ll have patching material to repair the other 4 that are downstairs…not sure why I feel so lousy but I know part of it is my allergies being so bad and I guess the other part is still not eating enough and I know that not being able to taste anything has something to do with that…and eating spoiled food since I couldn’t tell that the potato salad had gone bad and ate some of it…it did have an off smell to it but I only made it Sunday and it shouldn’t have gone bad that soon…I still did 33 miles on the bike today but felt bad doing it…probably should have taken it easy today…oh, well…there’s always tomorrow….

Well…running really late today with not getting out of bed until almost 7 and I am so tired of having to get moving every day…I mean, when do I get a day off? When do I get to just live and sit here without the pressure of getting the miles in? Yeah, I know I’m whining but I’m just frickin exhausted but I know I need 38 miles today…it’s nice that I don’t need to cook today but I do need to plan meals for the next few days and get something out of the freezer…need to get at least one ride in before the F1 sprint race at 10:30 but I really don’t care about anything right now…does that sound like depression? Could be…I just noticed that the being out in the sun yesterday exposed all of the freckles on my arms and it made me think of my mother who had so many of them…it’s the Irish in me and it reminds me of my heritage…I used to have a red beard when I was young….there is rain coming in and I need to get on the bike for a ride right now or I’ll be wet so I need to figure out how to get the miles in…will have to do the indoor bike and it may be a short mile day today…not much to do today…I do have to do laundry since I have bedding that needs cleaning…the radar shows that it is going to rain almost all day and I can’t wait….need to get moving…more later…

Well…had an okay day today with getting the three rides in and going out to the beach…was not warm enough for that with the temp still in the 60’s and a wind out of the north…but the water was warm so I got a swim in and that was good…I finally got a photo of the Kingfisher playing helicopter hunting today and it doesn’t show much but it does show I’m not imagining it…it sucks but I’m losing more of my sense of taste as the days go by…can’t really taste much anymore so now I really do have to shift into fuel mode and force myself to eat…was lightheaded at the beach today an I’m sure it was from not eating enough to support 38 miles a day on the bike…I have been putting electrolytes into the water I drink on the bike and I think that helps a bit but a pork chop, three small red potatoes, and beans and peas from my garden isn’t enough…I’m burning 1,800 calories a day on the bike and only taking in 1,000 or so and that’s just not going to work long term…okay, I’m tired and want to watch some tv…I think I said that last night, too…

Well…man, I’m running slow this morning but I haven’t had coffee yet so that might have something to do with it…slept all the way through the night until around 6 but that was to be expected with getting up at 3am yesterday and having a busy day…but today is going to be one that I can just let flow since I don’t have anything to do but clean a bit…and ride the bike, of course, but I’m not going to rush getting out there today…allergies are terrible this morning and I’m going to have to take something for them to be able to breathe…left the front door open overnight and it’s a bit chilly in here with it only 55 degrees outside…but that’s okay…I did get the chance to clean and lube the bike yesterday and I always like the first ride after I do that…but the temp has dropped to 54 so I’m going to wait a bit to go out…don’t want to have to wear a fleece at the end of June….man, it’s after 7 and I’m still just sitting here and that’s harder than it looks…I do need to do the bedding today but that is the extent of my planning…it is nice to not have anything to do and I need to figure out how to do that more…should I go to the beach today? Only going to be in the 70’s so maybe not…and the road that I take is still blocked by downed trees so maybe not…who knows? More later…

Well…damn, I’m sore today and I wonder if it’s from the 75 miles yesterday? But that would break the two day rule as it would if I hurt from cutting trees…cripes, I wonder if I hurt myself so bad it invalidated the two day rule? Whatever it is, I hurt like crazy and can barely move and that is not going to be a good thing for tomorrow…or tonight for that matter…have been up since 3am and I’m now starting to feel it so it may be an early night tonight…but I don’t want it to be…I missed having tv last night and being able to relax…I did get three rides in today to get to more than 4,600 miles but that means I only have two weeks to get 400 more in to hit the interim goal of 5,000 before my birthday…so that means at least 38 a day for the next two weeks but I am wearing out…I did make a pizza on the grill again this afternoon to use the ingredients before they spoiled but the mushrooms already did so none on this one…and it was okay…I need to use up the leftovers before I make anything else…have potato salad I made a couple of days ago that needs to be used…I was really surprised that the food in the freezer was still frozen hard after a day with no power…but there’s lots of stuff in there so lots of frozen mass…okay, I’m done for the day…want to read for a bit….

Well…it was almost a whole day without power here and it really wasn’t too bad…I still had water and that is the big thing when the power goes off…I have lived in houses with wells and that is the biggest pain when that doesn’t work…and even my water heater worked so I could take a hot shower after the rides and working on the downed trees…the only bad thing is that I’m used to being entertained and the only thing I had to entertain me was reading but that even ended when it got dark….I did enjoy lying on my porch couch and reading and I may do that again today…that is the first time I was able to do that in a year with all of the loudmouths up here…I did have a cocktail and sit in my plastic lawn chair on the front steps last night no mosquitos at all yet and that was cool…pretty darn quiet and I patted myself on the back just a little since I know I’ve had something to do with that…so today gets back to the routine with the grocery runs and three rides in…then pizza for lunch or maybe later since I have a leftover pork chop and beans and peas that need to be used…we’ll see…

Well…as you can see, I didn’t come here for my daily posts yesterday since the power was out all day and just came on this morning at 4:45am…so I’ll need to catch up today…it was a busy day yesterday when I decided to do the “ride my age” day with being pretty bored and having three rides in before 10am…so I finished that up around 4pm for 75.6 miles for the day and I’m not sore from it and that is weird…oh, a giant maple tree fell on the house next door with all of the super high winds we had out here on Monday…looks like a war zone out here with all of the trees that are down and I even had part of the maple tree on my house….but I got my pole saw out and cut the branches off and there is no damage to my house but the house next door has lots of it and I feel bad for them…the air is going to be filled with chainsaw noise for the next week at least but I have my yard all cleaned up…didn’t eat much yesterday with needing to keep the fridge door closed so I’ll make a pizza on the grill and eat a lot today to make up for all the miles yesterday…going to get on the bike before 7 to get the first ride in before the grocery run…need to stop at menards to get more weed killer and I may pick up some chicken thighs since I now have a working fridge…damn, I missed having ice water yesterday…more later…