Punk Ass: Biker, Zen Stress Monkey
Back from Vacation & The End of an Era
Ahhhh, the first hours back at work after vacation. It is a joyous time
. My week away from the world was quite nice. It started off with a trip to the Berkshires for my last cycling event of the year and ended with A trip to the studio to finish My band Under Adams' CD and a trip to the movies to see Serenity.
The Berkshires: End of an Era Part 1
This years Berkshires ride for MS was great. The weather was perfect and the sound of my front tire on pavement with the crisp fall air rushing past me as I screamed down a 48mph decent was close to a religious experience. To spite my sad mileage tally so far this year, I felt really good on the bike; well except for the last 10 miles or so, at this point it was very apparent to my knees that I had not in fact done as much training as last year and they started to complain a bit.
This was kind of a sad ride for me too. This is probably the last year we'll be doing this ride. AssMaster GuinAss and I got to talking over the weekend (as us men folk do sometimes) and decided that the rides we've been doing are getting kind of stale. So next year, No vineyard ride - no vineyard house, no Berkshires ride - no Berkshires house. Time to start some new traditions. This on top of the fact that Guin and I we the only ones from the team doing the 50 mile ride. Two years ago, we had a killer 7 man paceline going. Things are defiantly in flux. I guess I'll just wait and see what next year brings. I really hope we can pull the team back together.
Ok...back to work for me.....more later