Deflating My Spirit

For the last 14 months I thought the distance between where I live and HGA was about 14 miles. I thought the distance to my girlfriend's house was about 10 miles. This morning I learned from google maps that my exact bike route to work is 10.5 miles. This makes the latter distance about 7.5 miles. So much fo thinking I was biking a lot furthing than I actually was!

One More Day

I have now officially passed 200 blog posts. I took over 3 years to do it. I started in September of 2005, I think. It seems like a lot, then I look at the length of time this has been out there and wonder why there aren't more.

I have one day of 98% mobility left. I spent 3 hours adjusting the damn brakes on my road bike and tuning it up into a generally rideable condition. Now it's really late and I will be hard pressed for the energy to pedal in the morning =) I'll get 30 miles of biking in before I won't be able to bike at all for weeks. Guess I'd better enjoy it!

Wednesday is surgery and I'm not really looking forward to it. Hopefully, I will be glad about this whole ordeal in the fall. The pain will be gone, the physical therapy will be done with, I'll have been biking all summer and have a strong healthy knee on which I can play Ultimate.

Good-bye hard earned vacation hours! And Happy St. Patrick's Day. If you are into that sort of thing. I couldn't care less. Or actually I could: Easter is coming up shortly.
Lake Pepin at Frontenac State Park, November?, 2008. Looking across to Maiden Rock, WI.