swim|bike|run

July 01, 2009
When cycling gets out of hand

May I present to you: The most ridiculous thing I have ever seen in cycling. It's a $34 nut. $34 for a piece of cheap metal, which is made in Italy and since they take 11 months of vacation a year, they need to subsidize their vacations by making 999,999,999,999,999,999,999,000.000% profit on a small piece of metal.

My holiday weekend is looking good. After a family birthday party at the bowling alley, we are going to the lake. I am taking the day off tomorrow to cook some desserts and get a meal started. I have offered to cook a meal or two at the lake since I enjoy cooking and I try to be a gracious guest. The desserts are two of my favorites: Peach cobbler with vanilla ice cream, and chocolate chip cookie ice cream sandwiches. We plan to get the bike ramp built (hopefully), go for a road bike ride and climb the highest mountain in the state of Alabama (Mt. Cheaha), maybe do some mountain biking, go for a run on the lovely dirt country roads with my new Suunto GPS/HRM/watch**, take photos of Auslin Chapel, and get in some swimming, fishing and water skiing.

Happy 4th!

**The watch was a gift from my boyfriend. He listens quite well. I told him I'd rather have expensive sports gadgetry than a diamond/gold/platinum purty thing, so he surprised me with a nice Suunto GPS watch/heart rate monitor.

Posted by megabeth at 09:20 AM | Comments (0)

June 26, 2009
Not. Grow. Up.

I'm not a grown up, but you knew that already. I came up with the idea that I wanted a BMX bike. This was after I went to Tennessee to ride some mountain bike trails and caught some air on my bike. It was fun, so I wanted more air. I posted an ad at work for an old beater BMX bike so that we could ride it up a ramp into the lake. We haven't built the ramp yet, but for a garage sale price, I am now the owner of a GT Dyno BMX bike from the early 1990's. It is a bit rusty and needs some tune-up work, but it works and still has the original tubes and tires. We going to get some wood supplies this weekend and try to get a ramp up for the weekend of the 4th. I am digressing in age into my early teens now. I am acting like a twelve year old boy.

Posted by megabeth at 02:32 PM | Comments (5)