Well…it’s going to be hard to get started today with no coffee before my doctor appointment at 9:30…trying to keep my blood pressure down sine I’m already going to get bitched at for high cholesterol and my glucose level is two points into the elevated range…but I know that I’m pretty dehydrated and that will have an effect along with the stress from riding 41 miles a day for the last two weeks…they have never seen a 70 year old like me so I’ll have to explain that to them…sleep was a little better last night with getting up at 1 and then out of bed at 4:56 and I need to get on the bike here in 25 minutes to get two rides in before the appointment and that will probably raise my blood pressure, too, so who knows what it’s going to be…mots of the rest of my tests are right down the middle where they should be so I guess that’s something…going to plant the peppers and tomatoes I got yesterday when the rain stops today but that won’t be til the afternoon after I get the bike rides in…the new shifter for the bike is supposed to get here today so I’ll drag the bike downstairs and pull the old one, install the new one and put a new shift cable in if I can’t salvage the new one that’s in there…not much to do today…and as always, that’s not true…I don’t have to cook with the leftovers in the fridge…can’t wait to have my coffee after I get back here…more later…

Well…after trying for a couple of weeks to “find the wall” with my body after riding 12 days of 41 mile days, I think I may have found it today…but it took a combination of getting out of bed at 3:41 this morning, not eating enough, and all the riding…just frickin exhausted and even tried to take a nap this afternoon but nope, even with not getting much sleep for the past few days, I just couldn’t fall asleep but I did lay down on the couch for a few minutes while soccer was on…and it is really weird, no matter how little sleep I get on the previous night, I still don’t sleep well the next…after today, you would think I’d sleep like a rock tonight but I don’t hold out much hope that tonight will be a good night…man, it used to work that way…when I stayed up late or got up early, the next night I would sleep the sleep of the gods…just looked at the rest of my test results and for some reason my glucose is high but with the abuse I’ve been heaping on my body, I’m not sure I can trust the results..it could be that I’m dehydrated again and my right big toe is telling me I am…I guess I’ll  just let them bitch at me at the appointment tomorrow and try to find out what I can do to normalize the tests next time…just want this over with so I can have a cocktail or 11 tomorrow night…

Well…darn, another night of not enough sleep with getting up at 3:21..okay, I did go to be at 10 so that gave me about 5 hours and there have been times in my life that I would have killed for 5 hours…but this starts my days way too early and I’ll be on the indoor bike by 6 and have both rides done before 9…think I may go out to a green house to try to get some pepper plants since not one of the 3 packs of seeds I planted sprouted and I can’t figure that out…cripes I may even have time to get both outdoor rides in before lunch if the temp comes up…I am making chicken Masala with Jasmine rice and then have some potato soup for later…I still feel pretty good about the PSA test results I got yesterday but the rest of the result are iffy but I sure don’t want to start to take medicine for cholesterol if I can change it with dietary changes….damn, just got the “high winds today” notice on my screen and I am so damn tired of it being so windy out here…went into a 25mph wind yesterday on the way out on the second ride and everything hurts from it…I may have to just do three rides indoors and that will cut my mileage down for the day that won’t work if I’m going to get to my goal…I did get a little cleaning done yesterday and need to do more today but I’m not sue what yet…not much to do today…and that is almost true…one of these days I’m going to make it true especially after 133 days straight on the bike…I need a day off…more later…

Well…as you know, I had a PSA test scheduled for this morning and I was a little freaked out that it was going to show that the cancer had come back…just got the result on the mychart page and it is still undetectable which is the best result you can get…so we stay in “wait and watch” mode for another 6 months until the next test…I am really relieved that I don’t have more treatment that has to be done…right now, anyway…

Well…up at 4:47 this morning and I’m drinking coffee at 5:13 and that is a little strange…but I knew that there was no way to go back to sleep so I thought I’d try just thinking this is the normal time to get up…didn’t make it to the 3,000 mile goal that I had hoped for at the end of April but I did get to 2,784 miles and only need 767 miles to get to halfway of the 7,100 I’m going to ride this year…so that puts me on schedule to get the goal by the end of September if the results of the PSA test I’m getting this morning doesn’t throw me a curveball…have to be out there to the lab by a little after 9 so I’ll need to get on the indoor bike by 6 to get that done…going to be another busy one today with the two indoor rides, out to give them blood, back here to mow the lawn, then outdoors for two rides and then making chicken Masala this afternoon…have had 11 days of 41 miles rides and I want to keep that up til after the doctor appointment Friday morning…I may need a maintenance day of only indoor rides once the new shifter gets here…installing it and getting it adjusted will take a couple of hours and that will use up my outdoor time…not much to do today…ha, that made me laugh, too…tomorrow will be that kind of day with just riding but I need to get moving right now to get everything done…oh, damn I forgot, I need to stop at Meijers since the ginger I had for the Masala went bad…so I’ll stop at the one by the lab on Holton road this morning…more later…

Well…when I look back on the titles of these second personal posts of the day, I find that there are multiple uses of “a busy day” or “another busy day” and I don’t want to sound like a broken record so I’ll try harder…it WAS a busy day today with getting up at 5:23 and then getting two indoor rides in before 8am…the out to the grocery runs…oh, and I am shocked at the prices for veggie plants…the ones I used to get for 75 cents are now 5 bucks so of course I didn’t buy any even though I wanted to replace the green and Jalapeno peppers that didn’t come up this year…still can’t figure that out…right on the outdoor bike as soon as I got back and got two outdoor rides in before noon…then I dragged the big ladder out of the garage to clean out the gutter so it will drain…must have been 30 gallons of water that  went down after I cleared the clog…then I planted the tomatoes and cukes and put the rest of the cups outdoors so I could shut the light off downstairs…need to take it down and put it away and probably will later and then clean up the spilled dirt I have down there…

Well…up at three this morning and then out of bed at 5:23 and I need to get moving to get two indoor rides in before 8am and before I do the grocery runs so I can get out on the outdoor bike after I get back…want to have all the bike rides in before lunch so I can get the cukes and tomatoes planted today…still pretty sore from the 41 miles a day but I am going to try to keep it up as long as I can…I can see that I will have to have a half day soon for a repair day but I want to see where the wall is first…we have two days of no rain coming but then storms on Thurs night so I need to have the yard mowed before then…it’s going to be almost 80 Thurs then it goes back down in the 60’s for a week or so but I can live with that as long as there are no freezes…and there shouldn’t be since we are into May starting tomorrow…damn, need to get going to get this rush of a morning started…more later…

Well…they delivered my new bike bag this afternoon and I am pretty happy with it…it’s tall enough to take my quart sized sub zero stainless steel water bottle and still close the zipper…not like the last one where I had to keep that compartment open…and it has a phone sized zippered compartment on the front of the bag along with inside zippered and unzippered pouches….I washed the bike and put it on this afternoon and it looks nice to have a good looking bag on it instead of one with broken zippers on both parts of it…and this one has enough room in the main bag to put a pair of gloves and my eyeglass case along with the ziploc I put the phone in when it’s raining…and it came with a waterproof cover that you stretch over the entire bag…so far, I’m pretty happy with it…just hope the zippers are more durable than the last bag since they were made by the same company…okay, I shouldn’t bitch about that since I got 6 years out of it for the same price of 23 bucks I paid for the new one…I guess I’ll see…

Well…it looks like the rain that is coming in is going to dictate the day a bit today…supposed to last til noon and then I may be able to get out for the outdoor rides to make it 9 days in a row of 41 miles per day…slept pretty crappy last night but when I got back to sleep at 5:13, I was rewarded by having a dream and I can’t remember the last time I had one of those..and woke up somewhat refreshed from it…still need to get on the indoor bike here by 7 to get two rides in before 9 then I’m going to go over and pay the water bill and hit the library for a couple more books…only two this time since I don’t want to be stressed about getting them done in time…going to get the tomatoes planted tomorrow and I think I need to find a garden center to buy some green pepper and Jalapeno plants since not one of the seeds sprouted and they were new seeds this year…the bean plants look good and I am anticipating the broccoli will look good again this year…I do have 5 cuke plants up downstairs and they will be planted tomorrow, too and then I can shut the light off and pack it up…still really sore this morning and it will be a chore to  loosen up everything today…I am looking forward to get my new bike bag today…not much to do today…just going to wing it pretty much but I’m going to make potato soup later since I have 5 pounds of yellow potatoes staring me in the eye….more later…

Well..with the rain today, I never thought I’d be able to get two rides in outdoors but I got them done by 12:30 and that made 8 days straight of doing 41 miles per day…I am wondering where the wall is that I should be hitting any day…too damn old to be doing this and yet I felt good on the bike other than I hurt everywhere and my knees have joined in the fun…I bought a new handlebar bag for the bike and it is going to be here tomorrow along with the 10 shift cables and the 20 removable chain links so I can break the chain instead of taking the shifter apart when I change it….and the shifter will be here Friday so I’ll change it out as soon as I get it and be back to normal on the bike…and then start piling 50 miles a day on…still 800 miles away from halfway and should get there by the end of May and that will leave me 7 months for the second half…might get there…the beans I planted the other day are really taking off and I can notice them growing already along with the 5 pea plants…still no peppers up and that sucks…oh, well…