ARGH! I woke up and it's 5:30am because I set the wrong alarm. My alarm clock has 2 alarms on it and I set the wrong one lol. I didn't even wake up from the alarm, I just woke up. I looked at the cable box to see what time it was and I was like OMG! I'm LATE!
Then I go to fill my camelbak with ice and water and I think hmmm, I wonder. So I turn on my Dell DJ Mp3 player and the battery is dead lol. Great! Perfect! Well, it had 0 bars but it wasn't dead dead. I could listen to the radio on it but I prefer music.
So Since I'm already late I might as well wait until it's charged up a little bit more. I'll leave the house at 6:30am which is about the same time I usually come home from riding the bike. According to the weather channel app on my computer, 6am will be 70, 7am will be 71 and 8am will be 73. Since I won't be coming home until 8:30am I might as well mention that 9am will be 76 so between 8am and 9am the temp will go up by only 2 degrees so I'm not concerned about the heat catching up to me. That's the only reason I ride so early, to beat the heat.
Oh well, it finally gives me a chance to fully wake up before actually starting my day. Or... does this mean that everything else this morning is going to go wrong and I should just stay home? LOL
Sunday, July 05, 2009
Me in the Simpsons - Wood Burned/Painted
I got bored... LOL I went to the google search engine and typed "turn picture into simpsons character" and I found this website from Burger King called Simpsonize Me. I thought it was a very good likeness of me lol and I got bored so I wood burned it and that wasn't enough for me, I had to paint it too lol. So here you go, I hope you like it.
Is Bakersfield a safe place to ride a bicycle?
Is Bakersfield a safe place to ride a bicycle?
This article was in today's Bakersfield Californian newspaper.
In my opinion it is only safe to ride a bicycle if you are a defensive rider. If you are watching where you are going, looking both left and right, never crossing the street unless you have the green light (or in some cases walk signal). Never riding on the wrong side of the road then crossing while a car is turning left (which happened to me).
This one time I was leaving the bike path and I was crossing the street and this pickup truck was pulling out in front of me while he was looking right at me. He nearly ran me over. This was about 10am in the morning too so it's not like he was drinking and driving... that I know of at least.
I have a little mirror that is attached to my helmet and I'm constantly looking at it to see the traffic behind me so I know what is coming at me.
Now I cannot say that it is 100% safe to ride as early as I do because even at 4:30am there are probably still some drunk drivers out there but usually when I ride that early there are maybe 1 or 2 cars every 10 minutes so it's pretty safe where and when I ride.
You also have to consider the fact that I'm not riding in the busy streets along with traffic. I start out in a neighborhood and I'm pretty much only in neighborhoods until I get to the bike path so there is not that much danger of getting hit. And I know a route that gets me to the mall and to Target where it's through neighborhoods and I never have to drive with traffic.
So is Bakersfield a safe place to ride a bicycle? I think it is during the morning or during the daytime IF you aren't driving in traffic where there are no bike paths or where cars are parked right in the bike path. If you try to ride through neighborhoods then you are safe. But if you drive alongside cars then there is never a guarantee that you are ever safe. Even if you are crossing the street you aren't ever safe because there are always reports of people getting killed while crossing the street. Is it safe for me to ride here? Yes, because I am a defensive rider and I pick the best safest routes.
If you live in a city that you aren't sure where the safest routes are, why not just go to your favorite map website, I go to google maps and I map out my route then I adjust the route so I am going through neighborhoods then I print it out and hold it while riding through that neighborhood so I learn it so the next time I have to go that way I will remember. And if I don't remember then I print it out again (if I threw the old map out that is).
This article was in today's Bakersfield Californian newspaper.
In my opinion it is only safe to ride a bicycle if you are a defensive rider. If you are watching where you are going, looking both left and right, never crossing the street unless you have the green light (or in some cases walk signal). Never riding on the wrong side of the road then crossing while a car is turning left (which happened to me).
This one time I was leaving the bike path and I was crossing the street and this pickup truck was pulling out in front of me while he was looking right at me. He nearly ran me over. This was about 10am in the morning too so it's not like he was drinking and driving... that I know of at least.
I have a little mirror that is attached to my helmet and I'm constantly looking at it to see the traffic behind me so I know what is coming at me.
Now I cannot say that it is 100% safe to ride as early as I do because even at 4:30am there are probably still some drunk drivers out there but usually when I ride that early there are maybe 1 or 2 cars every 10 minutes so it's pretty safe where and when I ride.
You also have to consider the fact that I'm not riding in the busy streets along with traffic. I start out in a neighborhood and I'm pretty much only in neighborhoods until I get to the bike path so there is not that much danger of getting hit. And I know a route that gets me to the mall and to Target where it's through neighborhoods and I never have to drive with traffic.
So is Bakersfield a safe place to ride a bicycle? I think it is during the morning or during the daytime IF you aren't driving in traffic where there are no bike paths or where cars are parked right in the bike path. If you try to ride through neighborhoods then you are safe. But if you drive alongside cars then there is never a guarantee that you are ever safe. Even if you are crossing the street you aren't ever safe because there are always reports of people getting killed while crossing the street. Is it safe for me to ride here? Yes, because I am a defensive rider and I pick the best safest routes.
If you live in a city that you aren't sure where the safest routes are, why not just go to your favorite map website, I go to google maps and I map out my route then I adjust the route so I am going through neighborhoods then I print it out and hold it while riding through that neighborhood so I learn it so the next time I have to go that way I will remember. And if I don't remember then I print it out again (if I threw the old map out that is).
Ron Weasley Gets Swine Flu!
Potter actor gets swine flu in Britain: publicist
OMG! NOT RON WEASLEY!!! That's horrible! Well, according to this article he's better now. I thought that shit killed you? Well, WHEW! He's ok.
OMG! NOT RON WEASLEY!!! That's horrible! Well, according to this article he's better now. I thought that shit killed you? Well, WHEW! He's ok.
More Miles
I don't know why I'm going through this stupid plateau. Who invented that anyway? God? Thanks god! Why can't I just do my exercise and eat right and continue to lose weight anyway? Why does it have to stop even though I haven't stopped?
So I'm looking at my index cards that I have written all my bicycle computer information down (and also put it in my website too (@ http://www.xanapus.com/bike_computer.htm) since I bought it in November and I'm seeing that when I first started writing it down I was going an average distance of 6 miles and that was just getting from the house to beach park then resting and then going back home and not even getting on the bike trail. But then the 2nd thing on this chart is 9 miles so I actually got on the bike path and made an effort.
So then as you can see I started going further even going 18 miles in 1 day then 17 miles the next day then I realized that I was being stupid, that my legs were just not ready for it so I stopped doing that and my average distance was 11 miles per day. Then tragedy struck, I had my accident.
So in April when I started riding again I was going an average of 9 or 10 miles per day. In mid May I started to step it up and went 11, 12 and 13 miles and even went 16 miles per day but then realized it was too much so I started going 12, then 10 then 12 then 10 lol.
So in June I was doing 12 and 14 miles then I started experimenting with 16 miles and next thing you know for 2 1/2 weeks I'm going 16 miles everyday that I ride. No more and no less. But then July hits and I get a bug up my bum, well, a homeless guy sleeping at the Manor St. rest stop actually helped me decide to go further and so I started going 19 miles per day.
Well, I'm going to just step it up a bit more. I've been doing the 19 miles per day twice now so I'm going to just add 1 more mile to that. No reason other than 19 just isn't a very even number lol. I'd rather do 20 so I can say oh yeah I ride 20 miles per day.
Then I think in August I might just go ahead and add more to it again and maybe jump up to 25 miles per day. I know my legs are conditioned for it now so I have no problem riding all the way at 4:30am until 5:20am which is when I get to my halfway point so whats another few minutes?
I just want to burn enough calories that this fat will just go the frick away. Hey, you can't say that I'm not determined lol.
EDIT: That was a post I made on the SparkPeople website yesterday. This morning went I went out on my bike ride I actually did go 20 miles. 20.286 miles to be exact and it wasn't so horrible hehe. I'm going to do that for 3 days then take 1 day off then do it for 3 days then 1 day off etc.
So I'm looking at my index cards that I have written all my bicycle computer information down (and also put it in my website too (@ http://www.xanapus.com/bike_computer.htm) since I bought it in November and I'm seeing that when I first started writing it down I was going an average distance of 6 miles and that was just getting from the house to beach park then resting and then going back home and not even getting on the bike trail. But then the 2nd thing on this chart is 9 miles so I actually got on the bike path and made an effort.
So then as you can see I started going further even going 18 miles in 1 day then 17 miles the next day then I realized that I was being stupid, that my legs were just not ready for it so I stopped doing that and my average distance was 11 miles per day. Then tragedy struck, I had my accident.
So in April when I started riding again I was going an average of 9 or 10 miles per day. In mid May I started to step it up and went 11, 12 and 13 miles and even went 16 miles per day but then realized it was too much so I started going 12, then 10 then 12 then 10 lol.
So in June I was doing 12 and 14 miles then I started experimenting with 16 miles and next thing you know for 2 1/2 weeks I'm going 16 miles everyday that I ride. No more and no less. But then July hits and I get a bug up my bum, well, a homeless guy sleeping at the Manor St. rest stop actually helped me decide to go further and so I started going 19 miles per day.
Well, I'm going to just step it up a bit more. I've been doing the 19 miles per day twice now so I'm going to just add 1 more mile to that. No reason other than 19 just isn't a very even number lol. I'd rather do 20 so I can say oh yeah I ride 20 miles per day.
Then I think in August I might just go ahead and add more to it again and maybe jump up to 25 miles per day. I know my legs are conditioned for it now so I have no problem riding all the way at 4:30am until 5:20am which is when I get to my halfway point so whats another few minutes?
I just want to burn enough calories that this fat will just go the frick away. Hey, you can't say that I'm not determined lol.
EDIT: That was a post I made on the SparkPeople website yesterday. This morning went I went out on my bike ride I actually did go 20 miles. 20.286 miles to be exact and it wasn't so horrible hehe. I'm going to do that for 3 days then take 1 day off then do it for 3 days then 1 day off etc.
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