Bike Ride

I just came home from my bike ride and I did almost the same distance that I used to do on my regular bike rides before the accident.  Which means my body was already prepared and ready to go.  I fell 2 miles short of my past typical bike rides were which was fine.

Before my typical average miles were 11 1/2 miles going at an average speed of 11.9+/- miles per hour riding for typically 1 hour burning 550+/- calories and 64+/- fat calories.

So, I just need to get back to that point where I can do that and then some starting today.  Today by the way was 9.273 miles, average speed of 10.6 mph, time was 52 1/2 minutes, calories were 439.2 and fat calories were 43.7.  That's pretty good, it's getting close to what I was doing before, almost.

Oh and the camelbak was great.  I had 70oz of iced water in it and when I came home I poured the rest in a big blue cup and it filled it up and those cups are 32oz.  So I drank a little more than half of the water.  When I took it off I noticed that the only places on my shirt that were wet were where the camelbak was like the shoulder straps and my back was wet in the shape of the bag lol.  It looks funny.

And the skull cap was also great.  It kept my face dry and sweat out of my eyes and off of my sunglasses and it kept my helmet strap dry until I got home and by then it was just so soaked that the helmet strap was getting wet.  But that's fine because my eyes and glasses were dry.

Bad Weather

I woke up this morning thinking that I was going to be able to ride my bike then looked out the window and see these dark clouds in the sky and thought dammit, why can't I catch a break?

But luckily I looked at the weather on Yahoo and it says that it's going to be cloudy until around noon then it will clear up but it said nothing about rain.

Whew!  So that's good.  That tells me that I can go on my bike ride, I just have to deal with it being a little cold outside until Noon.  I probably won't be gone as long as I normally would because my legs are out of practice.

T-Minus 9 Hours

Hehe I'm counting down the time before I go out on the bike.  I'm really excited about finally being able to ride my bike again.  I really hope that I don't have any problems with the wheel.

If everything is ok then great.  But whether it goes bad or is all good I'm going to still return the wheel to the bike shop and see if they have the correct wheel.  If not then I'll see if they have the correct tire to go with that wheel.  I just don't want to have any issues with it. But I want to be positive about it and hope that it all goes well.

You know when it's going to be Christmas in the morning or you know that your parents are going to take you to Disneyland in the morning so you can't go to sleep because that's all you can think about?  That's how I feel right now.  I took an ambien because I know I won't be able to sleep.  Then again I have ADHD anyway so I know that I won't be able to sleep lol.  But you know, I'm real excited.

I am not so excited that I'm going to wear all my biking gear and clothes with shoes to bed so I can just wake up and run out the back door and not have to worry about putting on my helmet and backpack and sunglasses because they are already on.  No, I'm not THAT excited.  Just regular excited.

That last paragraph was for Sue who tried to make fun of me and I was a douche nozzle to her.  So there you go Sue.  I really hope you got a kick out of it.

New Wheel

I finally got my new wheel today although there is a problem with it lol.  I put the tube and the tire on it and screwed it to the bike and then started putting air into it.  As I was putting air in it I saw that the tire at the bottom was bulging out and so I stopped putting air in and started taking it out again.

I don't know what happened but apparently it's the wrong size.  The tag said 26" so I thought it was the right thing but the tire says 26" x 1.95" so I can only assume that the wheel is not right some how.

I'm not going to return it yet though.  The guy said I had like 2 weeks or 1 month or something, I didn't hear him but he said I had time to return it if something was wrong with it.  I'm going to ride it tomorrow to see if it does good or not.  If not then I'm going to have no choice but to return it.

Just to be sure I'm going to go out to the patio and take the air out of it and adjust the tube and wheel a little then put air in it again just to be sure.

I really hope it works out because I need to get back on the bike trail because my weight is out of control.

P.S. Ok so I went out there and put the tire back onto the wheel and pumped it up right on the table instead of on the bike which I think is the right way but I did it on the table and it was fine.  I put it pumped up on the bike and it seemed pretty sealed up with no problems.  I rode it for a minute and it was perfectly fine.

If I have issues tomorrow on the bike trail or even on the way to the bike trail then I guess I'll have to walk home and then return the wheel for a new one.  Although, I'm going to have a long walk depending on where I'm at.  That is unless I can just deflate the tire then pump it up again but not fully just to get me home faster.

Happy Easter

It's Easter!  Once again I got screwed out of a basket with candy and eggs.  Why is it that when I was a kid the Easter bunny always brought me a basket but as soon as I moved out he stopped coming?  You know, I'm starting to think that my parents were the Easter bunny or they were pretending to be.

Well I guess if I'm going to enjoy any of Easter I'm going to have to ride my bike to the grocery store and buy myself some cadbury eggs.  Now that it's Easter today all the Easter candy will be on sale like 50% off or more.  And over the next week or 2 it's all going to be in grocery baskets by the express lane with 75% off stickers.

Ha so take that you stupid rabbit.  Ignore me, I'll show you what's what.  I'll get all my Easter junk for 50-75% off.  That'll show him.

Farscape DVD's

I just found out tonight from a friend that Ben Browder and Claudia Black from Stargate SG-1 were in Farscape.

When we first got our cable in 2000 I wasn't really that into watching the Sci-Fi channel because I was addicted to Comedy Central.  But then after a couple of years I started watching the Sci-Fi channel.  I did see a couple episodes of Farscape but I figured I was too late watching it because I didn't have cable when it started and I didn't want to watch something in the middle and wonder what the heck is going on.

But I've been watching Stargate SG-1 religiously every day at 3pm (Sci-Fi HD channel here is East Coast, then the regular Sci-Fi channel is West Coast so then I get to see it again at 6pm).  When I really started getting into watching Stargate SG-1 it was about the same time Ben Browder and Claudia Black came into the show.  I figure yeah I missed a lot of the earlier seasons but it's on 5 days a week, I'm sure they will get to the end soon and then start over from the very begninning.

I was figuring I was going to buy the complete Stargate SG-1 series on DVD's for $130 from Amazon so even if they didn't repeat it again I'd have the DVD's so no biggy.

Well, when my friend told me today about Farscape I googled the show and went to the farscape website where I learned they had 4 seasons from 1998 to 2002.  So I figured ok I'll go to amazon and see how much it cost per season.  OMG They are so expensive.  Like $130 for the first season.  Hello?  Season 2 is $78.37, Season 3 is $99.91 and Season 4 is $126.99.

Holy crap dude!  Are you sure about those prices?  Then I went to see how much the entire series is with all 4 seasons, it's frickin $484.99.  I can't believe it's that expensive.  I'm not buying that.  I could never afford that much money.

So, I guess I'll have to just imagine how good of a show it was.  Maybe the dvd's are made out of gold and diamonds.  Maybe that's why they are so much money.  Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.