señor taco’s travels

Today, Friday, I have the day off of work. It’s nothing grand, they’re just moving a lot people around at work and I’m one of them. In order to get it all done by Monday we have the day off today. As a result my morning ride started a little later today. Yay for sleeping in.

I did the normal morning ride in full today. From Rockridge up Tunnel, to Grizzly @ Skyline, along Skyline, down to Joaquin Miller Road and then turning around and going back the same route. On Wednesday I did almost the same ride, but it was very foggy, cold, wet, and windy, so I didn’t go down to JM and thus was two miles shorter in distance.

Wednesday Stats:

Friday Stats:

Tomorrow is the Day on the Ride. I’ll be on the 80 mile route and it’ll be nice to have rest stops and a lunch stop with staffing again. That’s something you just don’t get when riding on your own.

I’m feeling great and I’m really looking forward to the Ride itself. Chris is out of town right now but he gets back on Saturday evening. I’m so going to call him on Sunday and get his butt back out on the road.

Today I got up and met Sal, Tia, Heidi, and Bill at the Orinda BART station. I had only gotten about four hours of sleep because my allergies are going nuts right now and causing a lot of drainage. That moves into my lungs and kept me up all night coughing.

I felt okay when we started, but the lack of sleep quickly caught up with me and I could really feel it on the hill climbs. Overall it was a good ride. You can see the route over at bikely.com. If you click on ‘Show > Elevation Profile’ you’ll see it was 3700′ of climbing. That normally wouldn’t have been so bad, but as I said, I just started to get really tired.

While the bikely.com route says 42.5 miles I actually rode more to get to the Rockridge BART station, but there’s not a way I’m aware of on bikely to show a broken path like that. On to the stats:

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I got up this morning with the best of intentions of riding at least 20 miles before it was supposed to start raining. There it was, the alarm, buzzing at 05.17 hours. I got up and started in on my routine to get ready to be out the door by 06.00. Sadly, about two minutes into my routine I started coughing. My allergies have been acting up the last few days and it’s causing nasal congestion which is becoming chest congestion while I sleep (yeah, yummy, I know).

I ended up coughing for about 20 minutes. Mostly it was productive, but at the end I was worn out. I just fell back into bed for another hour and a half. Hopefully I can ride tomorrow if it’s not too wet. It’s also supposed to be raining on Saturday and Sunday, which means I might have a wet ride on my hands one of those days. I guess that’s the way it goes.

Montana is now the first state to pass a law saying they won’t comply with the Real ID Act.  Hopefully more states will join in and strike down this attempt at an internal passport.

Through a stroke of luck I had Friday off from work. I took advantage of it to do an AIDS/LifeCycle training ride. I really need to get on the bike more. Between moving, work, and weather I don’t feel like I’ve been riding enough. I’m now starting up on the morning rides again and I think I’ll be fine. The ride yesterday was about 60 miles and I feel great, there was no part that was too hard and I didn’t get worn out.

Some stats:

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“So it goes.”

“Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.” — Albert Einstein