Pure Pain

I went out today for my first "long" ride.  It wasn't really long though since I only managed just over 3 hours and 60 miles.  The weather was great for early March and compared to all the cold weather.  It was 70 degrees by the time my ride ended.  My energy ended about 8 miles short of the finish.  It was a struggle to get back home.  I was wiped out.  This doesn't bode well for May but hopefully I can get my act together.

The Macbook Pro is doing great.  The display is so amazing, it's hard to describe plus just being able to pick it up and move around the condo is sweet.  I didn't have to go Europe. Woohoo!!  Things are changing for me so I won't have to travel as much hopefully.  So bye bye to my United Premier status for next year.  The one crazy thing with the Mac is trying to figure out how to read in the movies from my camcorder.  I need to catalog and put together some movies from last year of Elena.  Plus because I don't have to go to Europe, I get to see Elena's 1st grade music performance.  We'll give the iMovie a spin to see how it goes.

The knee still hurts but I think I'll just get used to it.  I probably won't be able to walk after the half but I'll just recover this summer.  Ice and more ice with some Aleve throw in for good measure.  It hurts getting out of the saddle on the bike as well but definitely didn't make me so slow on all the climbs today.

I need to wash my car because it's covered in salt.  It looks like a heavy sweater's tri-shorts at the end of a hot day.  Actually all the roads around here have the same salt streaks.  Massive salt and I didn't see anyone with chains that day when it snowed.  The roads can't handle that type of wear because they already have freeze cracks everywhere.

Well tomorrow it's suppose to be another nice day so I'll try the trifecta for bike rides.  I might die but at least the legs will get stronger because right now they're weak.  I'm already down to my race weight of 142 and I know its mostly muscle loss.  I just slacked way too much on the bike this off season so my legs have turned back into runner legs.  Of course that's useless because I won't be able to leverage all that good running base into speed because of the stupid knee.  Last year my off-season was wasted because of the collapsed lung and this year most of it was destroyed because of one 12 mile run.  I wish I would've just stuck to my normal route and maybe it would've been different.  Just one of those time machine type moments.

Well it's another exciting Saturday night in DC, as I watch Netflix.  I might try to see Watchmen tomorrow but I hate going to opening weekend movies.  I just rather not deal with the crowds.  Although I might brave the crowds for Monsters vs. Aliens because Elena is totally excited to see it.  She's been talking about it for months.

Well we lose an hour of sleep tonight which sucks...it's odd that this year its so early when last year it wasn't until April.  I wonder who makes that decision.  It seems random.  I want to be the daylight and standard time change czar.  Full control of people's wake-up schedule and screwing parents nationwide when they attempt to get their young ones up an hour earlier than normal.  Excellent!  I wonder if Congress would have to vote to stop daylight savings.  Imagine being like Arizona where you don't have to deal with a time change.  I guess in June the sun would rise at 4am and most people wouldn't like that.