Posted by Daniel Wed, 30 May 2007 20:59:13 GMT
Posted by Daniel Wed, 30 May 2007 20:25:00 GMT
Despite my right knee still giving me minor fits, I felt it was time to up the ante.
At the end of last cycling season I did a few 50 milers, and then the weather turned and I was busy with work and I never caught a nice day in the winter. I was trying to make them routine.
Despite more of a layoff this winter than I’d hoped, I’ve kinda picked up where I left off more or less. I still have weight to lose that I gained in the early spring after valiant weight flogging through the winter. And, my knees are still not 100%. But they’re closer than they’ve been in a long time. So I’m not rushing, but I’m trying to bring them along and get them healed.
Today’s ride started in Piermont headed toward Ridgewood, NJ (about 15 miles) looping toward Suffern and back (about 20). After the second bit of hill climbing I’ve done this season (hills and bad knees are not a happy combo) I decided to hang with my friend Jenni while she added some miles to her “I’m going to RAGBRAI and I better ride account” on a pleasant path, rather than ride a few more hills back to Piermont. She gave me a lift when we were done.
We started out a little cold, but the day warmed up beautifully. Considering I’ve only had a couple of weeks to ride, I’ve been struggling to drop weight, and I’m down to one problem on one knee, and it’s not yet June and I just clocked my first 1/2C… I’d say the cycling season is promising to be a good one.
Soon I’ll be ready for Seth to ride circles around me. :~)
Posted by Daniel Wed, 30 May 2007 20:08:00 GMT
Posted by Daniel Tue, 29 May 2007 13:34:00 GMT
Posted by Daniel Tue, 29 May 2007 12:21:00 GMT
A couple of quotes from this article on Bo Jackson. I found the first quote from Jordan especially true.
Bo Jackson was always grouchily unimpressed with himself. Michael Jordan thought that was part of Bo’s magic. “Neither of us is very easily amazed,” Jordan told Newsweek in those days when he and Bo were the two greatest athletes in the world. “You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”
“What do you think of Bo Jackson?” a reporter asked, well, Bo Jackson.
“I’ve known this guy for years,” Bo said of Bo. “And nothing he does fazes me.”
