Groovy, man!

What a couple weeks it has been.

I am back in Maple Grove as I have mentioned before and it is going alright. Last weekend I took off to Minneapolis for a little work gathering. We met up at the Chatterbox and the general manager bought us some dinner and drinks. I had to crash out there as I was in no condition to ride home. I rode home the next day, Sunday, and it was chilly but I made it alright. I had also went riding on the Friday prior to that and every path was covered in snow, you can see for yourself in the picture below. It wore me and my knees out really quick.

I got a new laptop and I am afraid to carry it in a pannier to school. So I ended up ordering the Timbuk2 Especial Tres. It looks like a really nice bag, I will pick it up tomorrow when I go to work, you bet I will write a review. I also took my rack off the cross check and I was super surprised at how big a difference it made, I gained 2 miles an hour it was nuts. Though I also wiped out. I went through an underground pedestrian tunnel and it looked like there was just water coming out so I went in and about half way through I figured out it was ice, just as I had that realization, I wiped out. I may have bent my cantilever arm as well as my pinky finger. I will also find out about that tomorrow.

Monday kicks off 30 days of biking. I will be doing it this year and I will try to take at least one photo every day. I will post the link to the flickr album where I will be uploading the pictures so you can check back periodically, I will also be doing regular posts throughout the month.

Since coming back to Maple Grove I've started doing P90 again and have already lost a solid 10 pounds. My goal is to get back down to 180 at least, I feel way better, I am eating way better, and I sleep way better. I am hoping that by the end of the year I will be back to my target weight and pretty able bodied on the bike again. I can do a lot of riding but I get pretty wiped out after the fact, not like my first year of serious biking. I want to get back to that. I am pretty excited about the future and where I am heading, everything seems to be working out pretty good.

Cross Check on the snow. Wrong tool for the job.

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahaaa... wipe out!