Well…it seems these days that every day is a busy one even though I cut back riding to only 32 miles a day…after the indoor ride where I hit 2,000 miles for the first time ever…the next highest mileage was last year at 1,134…I wonder if I can get to 3,000 miles down there this year…then an outdoor ride before I watched F1 qualifying, then back on the outdoor bike and then I fired up the lawnmower and mowed the lawn since it was getting long and the rain coming in for tomorrow and Monday would have made it too long to mulch…but, now I’m done for the day and I’m going to watch the race that’s on after I finish this…okay, that’s it…need a break…

Well…woke up to the rain at around 3 am and had a hard time getting back to sleep…so I’m feeling that this morning and need to get moving in 20 minutes to be able to get the indoor ride in and one outdoor ride in before F1 qualifying comes on at 10…I do think the decision to limit myself to only 32 miles a day is the right one…it leaves me time to get other things done…my back is really sore this morning for some reason and I know I didn’t do anything that would have hurt it so it must be the dread hurt myself sleeping again thing….I really do need to get started on cleaning the windows and taking the bird feeder down and that may be today since I don’t have to cook with having the leftovers from grilling yesterday…there is a race on later that may interrupt that but we’ll see…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but the rides and grilling and today looks the same…I did read all afternoon and finished up one of the books I got Monday…it’s going to be cooler today with highs only around 70 or less and that is more normal than the 85 degrees yesterday…not much to do today…just need to pour more coffee down and get on the indoor bike in 9 minutes but I don’t want to…more later…

Well…damn, I’m tired this morning and I’m really not looking forward to this daunting day…have 20 minutes until I have to get on the bike for the indoor ride, then an errand, then two outdoor rides…and I have to cook since I used up the leftovers yesterday…slept okay last night but don’t feel like I slept at all…the coffee needs to work soon or I’m going to be glued to this couch all morning….it’s only 54 right now but it will be warm enough to get on the outdoor bike by the time I get back from the errand…it looks like my race day Sunday is going to be interrupted by thunderstorms that will extend down to Indy so that race will be postponed until Monday…darn…had to make two noise calls yesterday and I am so damn tired of that crap…I really hate these assholes and I want to tell the people who are looking at the house on 7th that is for sale…no one should have to deal with this and I know the realtor is not telling them the truth about this neighborhood…I mean 180 grand to listen to this crap? Not much to do today…I know I’ve said I want to take a day off but I’ve made a huge leap towards it in the past day or so…just so worn out…and need some rest…more later…

Well…it is halfway day today and I’ve never had this many miles in this early in any year since I started riding many years ago…I still remember when I was happy and a little proud to have 500 miles in by labor day and the progression to 3,550 over the years has been a lot of work…I was able to sleep on my back again last night and I am still trying to figure out what has changed to allow me to do that…maybe the weight loss? Have 20 minutes before I need to get on the indoor bike and if I can get going by 7 I’ll have all three rides in before 10 today…I do need to figure out the brakes on the car today and that only means taking all 4 tires off and looking at the rotors…not a lot of work but it’s still a pain…made the coffee a little strong this morning with opening a new container of Colombian last night and putting an extra half tablespoon using up the old stuff…yow…jet fuel…still have leftovers for today but tomorrow I’ll fire up the grill and make some burgers and brats and eat all the stuff that is bad for me…and I’ll have fresh corn on the cob to add in somehow…not much to do today…just need to get the rides in and then I can wing it for the rest of the day…I do need to plan on cleaning the windows soon like I do every year and that includes washing the blinds…there is so much dirt in the windows from the dust up here…more later….

Well..oh, almost buried the lede here…you know I ranted about people running the red light at the bottom of the hill and I almost got run over…so today, another person did it and ran over a teenager on a bike…coming back from the first outdoor ride, I noticed a cop car pulled up behind a crappy old pickup…and that old pickup had a mangled bike underneath the front of it…luckily, the kid who was riding it was standing in the median and looked okay other than rubbing his wrists…this is the kind of stuff that happens when you let people do whatever the heck they want and ignore the law…okay, back to halfway…I am 4 miles away from the halfway point of 3,550 miles and I’ll get that in on the indoor ride tomorrow morning…and now I can start counting down…think I need to pop some champagne to celebrate…

Well…damn, I think I’m edging up to taking a day off in the near future…pretty worn out from yesterday and all the work I needed to get done…and did…but the garden is now complete and I don’t have any yard work to do for a while…I did sleep on my back for the second day in a row and I haven’t been able to do that in 50 years so I wonder what has changed? I have 17 minutes until I need to get on the bike and get my day started and that includes the grocery run and a stop at Menards to pick up some contact cement and weed killer…might hit DD to see what is there on the way back here…Meijers has corn on sale for 12 cents an ear so I need some of those but not much else so it will be a quick run today…I do need to figure out the brake noise in the car at some point and that will probably be this week…I need to clean the garage, too, since it is full of leaves and quite unorganized…the garden is looking good but I’m going to lose a bean plant that has started to turn yellow…have plenty of beans to plant in place of it and I’ll keep adding them over the summer so I’ll have beans until late in it…not much to do today…just the grocery runs and bike rides and I may carve out a little time to rest a bit…more later…

Well…up at about 4:30 this morning and spent a lot of time just lying in bed starting at the ceiling until I climbed out at around 6…seemed to have slept okay and feel okay for getting about 5 hours of sleep last night and I have to get on the bike in 25 minutes…trying to get to 2K on the indoor bike and will need about 8 rides to do that…went over 1,500 miles outdoors the other day and I’ll get to halfway later in the week…I had a schedule for today that has already been changed with the fog that has the lawn dripping wet so mowing will wait til the afternoon and I’ll get all three rides in this morning…it is supposed to storm overnight with high winds and hail and I’m glad I have a garage to keep my car in…didn’t get much done yesterday but I think I’m going to grill some chicken thighs today if I have enough gas in the tank…will need to have it filled later this week…and I do need to figure out what the heck the grinding is with the brakes on the car….need to buy a new one soon…not much to do today…have tried to throttle back the things I have to do so I’m not so stressed out every day trying to get so many rides in…yesterday was okay and I even had time to read a bit…more later…

Well…I really can’t believe how many stupid people there are in this world…when I was coming back from the second ride and stopped at the crosswalk on Shoreline drive, I hit the cross button and sat there and waited for the light to change watching the countdown in the display…when the light changed to give me the green, I always look to the left to make sure the traffic has stopped because I just don’t trust people to be paying attention…and today that was a good thing…first, a truck ran the red light a few seconds after it changed, but I kept watching the traffic and a guy in a van ran the light a good 10 seconds after I got the green…and if it wasn’t for me hitting the button and waiting to go…the traffic waiting to turn left onto Shoreline from 7th would have gone and gotten t-boned by these idiots…man, what stupid people…

Well…damn, need to get moving soon to get two rides in before I head over to the library to return the books that are due…going to do an indoor ride and an outdoor ride before then and another outdoor ride as soon as I get back here…should be another 32 mile day today and I’m really hoping that it does rain today as forecast but it’s looking like it won’t be til later in the day…slept okay last night but I forgot to close the front door and it is pretty cold in here right now…only 55 outside but the heat didn’t come on so I guess that’s something…probably made a mistake only eating one meal yesterday for about 600 calories and need to do better today…might grill the chicken thighs that are in the fridge and that would give me leftovers for the rest of the week…need to get my propane tank refilled but I think I have enough in it to do the thighs…need to put gas in the car this week, too, since it’s down to less than a half a tank and I really do need to start finding a new car…going to mark out a time every day to search for one so I can get one before my birthday in July…the little weather widget on my screen says “heavy rain later” and I sure hope it’s right….not much to do today…need to get on the indoor bike before 7 so I have 27 minutes to get moving…only have two cups of coffee for the morning and I need to figure out how that happened…more later…

Well…I took it a little easier today with only doing 32 miles and one of the rides was indoors when I got up this morning and I really needed it…saw a sailboat race on Muskegon Lake that was pretty cool but I haven’t posted that yet…will do that after I do this one…the outdoor rides were fun even with the wind and it was another t-shirt day for me…but my knees both hurt on the bike today and that may be my fault for going too hard on both rides but damn, it felt good…I did make some chicken masala this afternoon and didn’t finish it til almost 1:30 so there will only be one meal today…and that’s okay…went down on miles so I need to go down on calories, too…lots of people out on the trail today and that made it a little more work than I want but everyone was nice and waving at me so that made up for it…there was a dead deer that must have been hit Friday night that is lying alongside Shorline drive and I pity the city workers that will be picking it up tomorrow with how hot it’s been here…covered in flies and bloating like crazy…sure hope they do pick it up before it smells…have everything done I wanted to do today including the weight work this morning so I have the rest of the day off to watch pole qualifying at Indy and then the nascar race from North Wilkesboro that starts at 5…going to read some news…