the weather was beautiful, too..
my boots hurt again today for some reason.. like severe pain again and I don't know why - I was only able to ski one run.. boot pain sucks.
may 13th, 2005: 500 miles of driving roundtrip - 8 hours - 1 ski run.
hell yeah it was worth it.
(if you don't understand why, you never will)
anyway, its time to hang up the skis and get psyched for summer.. going to ride that new bicycle until my calf heals, then run and ride the bike until i've got a 36" waist. I already bought a pair of pants in 36"..
"but steve, 36" is too small for you!"
back in 1999, I went on a fitness program and the results were amazing. I was down to a 42" waist and didn't look half bad.. but here's the deal - even at 42" I was still over 300 lbs. I should probably be below 250lbs.. hence the 36" pants I own.. and as a way to motivate myself I have said that I won't drink any beer (or other alchohol) until I'm down to a 36.
So in the fall when I'm in better shape, I'm going to go to the pro shoe-fitter that alex goes to and where I bought my running shoes from (forget the store I bought the boots from - I totally got a vibe that he doesn't care). This guy is good. Really good. Hopefully he'll be able to stretch out the boot a little so that the pain stops - and make me a footbed with arch support (where the pain is). This guy is the best, he's extremely experienced (made over 30,000 footbeds) but more importantly he actually gives a shit about his customers - and will jump through hoops for them.
he also holds the world record for the fastest crossing of the united states by foot.
his web site is http://www.shoe-fitter.com.
cue the space odyssey theme song..
5/13/2005 07:46:00 PM
the bicycle has been assembled..
rode it when i got home. i forgot how hard hills are, even small ones in the lowest gear.
skied today.. i'll write about that later.
rode it when i got home. i forgot how hard hills are, even small ones in the lowest gear.
skied today.. i'll write about that later.
yet another bike update
5/12/2005 05:12:00 PM
picked up the unasembled bike today and brought it to a different shop who'll have it done by tomorrow.
when picking it up, the guy told me that i'm doing myself a terrible disservice. then he dropped some more jargon to tell me why, something about torquing the gears to align the chain properly. i told him that i can't wait two weeks to get the bike, so i took it..
so the guy who'll do it by tomorrow said that he has no clue what the first one was talking about, but the chains are always aligned properly... he has been a bike tech for 30 years and thinks the first guy was full of shit. all things being equal, I believed him, especially since the first guy basically said that all the other bike shops in the area were incompetent.
here's the confusing part: the first guy has no reason to lie. he's an hourly employee at a store where bikes aren't even the emphasis. he's backed up and probably would appreciate having the backlog lightened a bit. he has nothing to gain by assembling the bike, and nothing to lose by not assembling it.
as a sidenote, since the new place closes at 6pm, i'm going to have my wife drop off rufus at the daycare in the morning so i can ski in the vermont in the morning. then I will return in the afternoon in time to pick up rufus and go pick up the bike. that's what's up with the change in plans.
it'll be my last ski day of the season, and it'll also be the day i get my bike.
psyched!!!
when picking it up, the guy told me that i'm doing myself a terrible disservice. then he dropped some more jargon to tell me why, something about torquing the gears to align the chain properly. i told him that i can't wait two weeks to get the bike, so i took it..
so the guy who'll do it by tomorrow said that he has no clue what the first one was talking about, but the chains are always aligned properly... he has been a bike tech for 30 years and thinks the first guy was full of shit. all things being equal, I believed him, especially since the first guy basically said that all the other bike shops in the area were incompetent.
here's the confusing part: the first guy has no reason to lie. he's an hourly employee at a store where bikes aren't even the emphasis. he's backed up and probably would appreciate having the backlog lightened a bit. he has nothing to gain by assembling the bike, and nothing to lose by not assembling it.
as a sidenote, since the new place closes at 6pm, i'm going to have my wife drop off rufus at the daycare in the morning so i can ski in the vermont in the morning. then I will return in the afternoon in time to pick up rufus and go pick up the bike. that's what's up with the change in plans.
it'll be my last ski day of the season, and it'll also be the day i get my bike.
psyched!!!
pointless entry
5/11/2005 07:20:00 PM
arghhh... but i'm getting over it.
i'm not as devastated as i was yesterday - even though on monday i was sure i'd have the bike today at the latest (and was hoping to god they'd finish early)
so where am i now? a day closer to who knows when. my calf still hurts, so running is out - hiking would be ok but it's still too early since my last run to risk it (pounding on the downhills would be a biatch)
so today i didn't exercise and instead cooked a potroast - and the portion i ate was delicious. alex is at a party in the city coming home until about 9pm tonight, so i'm by myself here this evening, until i get the call to pick her up in harrison, 40 minutes away. the baby is sleeping at the moment, i just finished recording my brother's radio show, and now i'm sitting here wishing i could be riding the bike right now. so instead, i posted a blog entry. glad to share it with you.
friday i'm going skiing, and it'll likely be my last day this season. i need to put in a good long roadtrip.. maybe to the upper midwest to pick up highpoints. right now i'm thinking of going from buffalo through ontario to sault ste marie, and hitting the highpoints of MI (which is on the UP), WI, then up to MN (which is on the northeast fringes of the state). Then, depending on the time, I'll go even further west and tack off ND, SD, NE and maybe Kansas. Then I want come back, doing IA, IL, IN, and OH. So what is that? 10 highpoints in one trip? that wouldn't be bad.. it would only leave 10 states east of the rockies that I'd still need - Northern New England, plus Alabama which I'll pick up next time I'm in Atlanta, Virginia which is just a matter of a weekend roadtrip, and then Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and Missouri. And of course, all of the western states.. the big ones that can't be ticked off so easily..
you see? I was going to keep writing, but it just occurred to me I haven't thought about that damn bike in the last ten minutes while writing that paragraph and planning!
highpointing is good for your sanity. rizzo, where are you?! lets go!
i'm not as devastated as i was yesterday - even though on monday i was sure i'd have the bike today at the latest (and was hoping to god they'd finish early)
so where am i now? a day closer to who knows when. my calf still hurts, so running is out - hiking would be ok but it's still too early since my last run to risk it (pounding on the downhills would be a biatch)
so today i didn't exercise and instead cooked a potroast - and the portion i ate was delicious. alex is at a party in the city coming home until about 9pm tonight, so i'm by myself here this evening, until i get the call to pick her up in harrison, 40 minutes away. the baby is sleeping at the moment, i just finished recording my brother's radio show, and now i'm sitting here wishing i could be riding the bike right now. so instead, i posted a blog entry. glad to share it with you.
friday i'm going skiing, and it'll likely be my last day this season. i need to put in a good long roadtrip.. maybe to the upper midwest to pick up highpoints. right now i'm thinking of going from buffalo through ontario to sault ste marie, and hitting the highpoints of MI (which is on the UP), WI, then up to MN (which is on the northeast fringes of the state). Then, depending on the time, I'll go even further west and tack off ND, SD, NE and maybe Kansas. Then I want come back, doing IA, IL, IN, and OH. So what is that? 10 highpoints in one trip? that wouldn't be bad.. it would only leave 10 states east of the rockies that I'd still need - Northern New England, plus Alabama which I'll pick up next time I'm in Atlanta, Virginia which is just a matter of a weekend roadtrip, and then Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and Missouri. And of course, all of the western states.. the big ones that can't be ticked off so easily..
you see? I was going to keep writing, but it just occurred to me I haven't thought about that damn bike in the last ten minutes while writing that paragraph and planning!
highpointing is good for your sanity. rizzo, where are you?! lets go!
bike update
5/10/2005 05:25:00 PM
so the bike came in last week, and boy i've been going nuts waiting for it. took a couple of weeks for them to deliver it from california (the large frame had to be special ordered) and i was hoping the bike techs would have it assembled within 24 hours - i'm anxious to be riding this thing..
turns out that was wishful thinking..
so the bike arrived on thursday and the guy in the shop said i'd get tuesday or wednesday of this week. today i actually talked to one of the techs and he told me a different story.. they're so backed up that it might be weeks before they can even get to it.
weeks.
it may be an emotional overreaction, but i'm just devastated over this news..
absolutely devastated..
i wish i knew how to assemble a bike.
the worst part - I've somehow injured my left calf. i pulled it or something. it really hurts after a couple of miles of running - so much so that i need a week to recover before i can run again. feels like its an impact thing - so i need to avoid running for a few weeks to let it heal. i was hoping to ride the bike for that time to keep the fitness momentum going.. now i don't know what to do.
turns out that was wishful thinking..
so the bike arrived on thursday and the guy in the shop said i'd get tuesday or wednesday of this week. today i actually talked to one of the techs and he told me a different story.. they're so backed up that it might be weeks before they can even get to it.
weeks.
it may be an emotional overreaction, but i'm just devastated over this news..
absolutely devastated..
i wish i knew how to assemble a bike.
the worst part - I've somehow injured my left calf. i pulled it or something. it really hurts after a couple of miles of running - so much so that i need a week to recover before i can run again. feels like its an impact thing - so i need to avoid running for a few weeks to let it heal. i was hoping to ride the bike for that time to keep the fitness momentum going.. now i don't know what to do.
Happy Birthday Billy Joel
5/8/2005 05:56:00 PM
and happy mothers day too!
before I get into the meat of my post, I wanted to put in a quick plug for my brother's message board. i just set it up yesterday, and as of right now, there are just two users: me and him. though he'll talk about anything at all, his radio show is a sports show, so I imagine the main topics will be sports. you can post some of the controversial issues there for a fresh opinion. the URL is http://turzman.com/phpbb.
actually, that was the meat of my post. carry on..
before I get into the meat of my post, I wanted to put in a quick plug for my brother's message board. i just set it up yesterday, and as of right now, there are just two users: me and him. though he'll talk about anything at all, his radio show is a sports show, so I imagine the main topics will be sports. you can post some of the controversial issues there for a fresh opinion. the URL is http://turzman.com/phpbb.
actually, that was the meat of my post. carry on..
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