Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Out: 6:52am
In: 7:10pm
Start: Dixon
End: Petaluma
Distance: 66.9 mi
Trip total: 87.6 mi
I’d say that’s about two and a half hours late. Not too alarmed about it since this is the second-longest day of the itinerary. Bike seems to be in good working order. But still this is a finish-line time much later than day trips I’ve run covering similar distances.
I chalk it up to:
I’m too much of a sissy-pants to start out at 4:30 or something like that; I showed some crappy-ass time management during my lunch break, like a hundred minutes for it from beginning to end; and the headwinds on Highway 116 were really vicious.
I mean, really, really vicious. I recall thinking sometime mid-afternoon, “I’ve been fighting this shit for five hours straight now.” The construction was a constant thing too. Wonder if I have OBambi to thank for that; there does seem to be something Reinvestment-Act-ish about it all, with all the shoulders unavailable mile after mile after mile. Yeah, that’s really safe. Let’s just say, now I’m past that, I think I have been through the worst of it.
I didn’t have time for my victory beer, or even dinner for that matter. As I type this I’m waiting for Safeway to open so I can rustle up some grub. That is as good a definition as any for a schedule slipping out of control.
It is a mishap I do not care to repeat on this trip. Today’s scheduled stop is a mere fifty miles away, the day after that covers just forty.
Also I got some good pictures out of this run. It’s rather typical to realize a steep time penalty for that, fully understood only at the very end. It’s the price you pay.
Update: Oh, this is kind of cool. Looks like the reports from my GPS tracker device are online.
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Looks like the reports from my GPS tracker device are online.
Would that be your phone? Or sumthin’ else? Apropos o’ headwinds… if you had a motor on that bike, nothin’ less than 650 cc’s, those headwinds wouldn’t faze ya. Just sayin’, yanno? 🙂
Be safe out there.
- bpenni | 09/25/2011 @ 10:16The thought occured to me, more than once. But can you buy something with 650cc nowadays? Seems like those vehicles start at 1100 and go up from there…to say nothing of MSRP, how that’s changed.
- mkfreeberg | 09/25/2011 @ 13:48But can you buy something with 650cc nowadays?
Yup… sumthin’ like this. Or this. The first is an SV-650S, which is kinda-sorta the sporting version of the second, which is an on- and off-road hybrid (and a BIG-ass bike, too). Both are fine rides.
- bpenni | 09/26/2011 @ 07:55