I'm moving

Lately I have been feeling more like Thor than Shogun, so I have decided to start a new blog for Thor. The address for that site is feelmythunder.blogspot.com. I'll be posting there until Shogun comes out again and has something to say.

Thorgun

It's Almost Daylight Savings Time!!!!!

I can't believe that I was excited to hear that Daylight Savings time starts this coming Sunday. I am actually excited to hear that becuase to me that means it will be lighter, later in the day and hopefully is signaling an end to this cold weather we have had so far this winter.

Did Phil see his shadow this year????

Up Close and Personal

One of the things I like about cycling is that for the most part, it's still a very accessable sport. Because it's not huge and the athletes are not making millions of dollars, they are all usually pretty cool with the fans. Here are some pictures from our San Francisco trip where we saw some of the Tour of California.

Behind me in the vest to the right is Bob Roll. He is very famous in cycling. He is a retired cyclist who was on the original 7-11 cycling team. He is also quite a riot.


These guys are the complete broadcast team for versus. This is from about an hour before the race.



This is Tommy Danielson. He is a rider on Discovery (the only American sponsored team that rides in Europe). But as you can see, the riders are just riding through the crowd. You really have to keep your head on a swivel when you are walking around so you don't accidentally get run into by these guys. They are clipped in, so it's rude not to give them the right of way. Plus it's frickin Tommy D (do I sound 10 there?)




This is in front of where Credit Agricole was warming up (they are a big French team). The guy in the middle is Thor Hushovd who is the champion of Norway (thus the norweigian flags around his collar and sleeves). He is one of the most popular guys in the peloton, and definitely has the coolest name.



This is Michael Barry. He is a canadian who rides for T-Mobile (a german team). He used to ride for US Postal and then Discovery last year. He moved over to T-Mobile during the winter. But the reason I took a picture with him, is that he wrote a book I really like (Inside the Postal Bus). His book is a behind the scenes book about what it is like to be a cyclist. It was very entertaining.

Niiice Parenting

I was walking through a store at Plaza Bonita yesterday and I hear a woman extoll this to her child...

I fucking told you to watch your sister...

Very Niiice.

When 100=0

As a direct effect of my year in motion, I put in 100 miles this week (92 cycling, 10 walking/jogging). So you and I would say, "hey that's great!!!", but it's kind of a bummer that my scale doesn't say so.

My clothes even agree with the scale...

I ate ok, but I know I could have eaten better.

Maybe it's because it's just so cold. I feel that if I would have put in this milage during the summer, I would have burned a lot more calories.

Lets try it again this week and see where we end up.

201/26.6

The Year of Motion

This is going to be our year in motion. So far we have already hiked up Cowles Mntn and went Indoor rock climbing at Solid Rock (near old town on Hancock st). Sailor Moon bought Lotus a One month pass to Solid Rock for herself and one family member (me!!!).

Tomorrow I'll probably ride my bike in the morning, then I think we are going rock climbing again in the evening. Since my ankle has healed (more or less) I can now jog also, so hopefully I will be successful in my push to get to my goal weight by this summer!!!

I should go do some sit-ups or something instead of blogging.

201/26.3

I'm actually kinda bummed

You always here about famous people passing away, and usually one greets the news with a hmmp. Or a, oh ya I remember him or her. But I have never tied anything emotional to it, until today.

Peter Boyle died today. He was probably most known as the Father of Raymond on Everyone loves Raymond. He was also in Young Frankenstein and a few other things, but I've always like him and thought he was especially great in Raymond.

I guess I care, because he really made me laugh. I feel like out of almost all the characters I see on TV, his was the most real, or the one maybe that I most relate to. Nothing seemed faked or set up. Just genuine reactions to the situation at hand.

Now I guess it's unfortuneatly time for 2 more to pass, since they always pass in 3's.

Holy Crap Marie.

Is it just me???

Is it just me or is it cold this year? Ok, I know I'm a pussy, that's why I live in San Diego though. I saw some guys riding their bikes the other morning at about 7:30am and they had the long pants on, jackets and one guy had a turtleneck on under that. They looked freakin cold and it was frakin cold outside.

I think it was about 40 that morning, which is really cold for San Diego. Is it usually this cold?

I guess I am noticing more this year because it has stopped me from riding outside for the last few weeks. I tried to go a few days ago around 11am, and never got out of my neighborhood. I had a jacket on and it was still too freaking cold.

Luckily my ankle has healed enough now that I can jog on my treadmill, so atleast I've been able to keep my weight in check during these glorious holidays.

Only 2 weeks until we start putting Valentines out!!!!

EYE SEE YOU

I recently went to an eye doctor and he dialated my eyes. I had to go to work shortly after this. The whole gang at 32nd started singing, "I wear my sunglasses at night..."