Monday, March 14
The End
I've decided it's time to bring this thread to a close. The last 3 responses, all from people who's riding abilities I respect, is unanimous. While I can't totally agree that it's not what I have been doing for the past 5 months, I can't say that it's been totally off my mind either.
I also feel this perception that for some reason people think I don't have fun riding my bike, which could be the furthest thing from the truth. I mean if I wasn't having fun, I wouldn't be so eager to get up after I fall down or be up at dawn trying to figure out where to ride next. If that was the case, I would have sold my bikes and quit this board a long time ago. The truth is I love riding my bike. My body loves it, so does my brain. So whether I'm doing intervals or hill repeats or moving at a snail's pace with a group of newbs or bashing my head in on a rock at Ringwood, I have fun riding the bike.
Having said that, there must be a reason why public perception is the way it is. I'm guessing it might have something to do with the title of this thread. Or the way this thread started out. Or the way I write in general. Or whatever.
So I'm taking the advice. Just ride. No training. No keeping track of hours. No HR monitor. No blogging about every ride and how my legs felt. No trying to figure out how to get faster for the next race. I guess I do have to qualify it with a few things though. I'm still going to race. And I'm taking my Garmin with me. Rather than go into an explanation of why, I'll just say I'll make it work w/o it being about training. If that makes my statements less meaningful, so be it.
In case all of my 2 fans were disappointed they won't have any more reading material, there is a good chance I will start up another thread. I just need to come up with a good title that has nothing to do with nutrition and training. Suggestions are welcome.
Ride
Although I've been kind of jealous of all the 60, 80, 100 mile rides going out recently, this is all I could muster for today. I'd like go out for a nice long ride sometime soon before HOH.
GPS:
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/73127182
Church
So yea, it's pretty crazy how Christianized South Korea has become. The biggest church in the world, at least in terms of membership, is in Korea. If you go to Flushing (large Korean community), there's like 2 churches on every block.
In other church news, I found out last week that our Manhattan church was getting kicked out of Irving Plaza with 1 week notice. If I had to explain it in the most politically incorrect way, it was stolen from right under us by a much bigger church. It made me angry for a bit, then I got over it in about 10 minutes. Plans are already under way to move into a bigger location, which I can't really talk about until the contract is finalized. It will be a better fit for our needs and it's a testament to how much we've grown in the past year, so all is good.
So yesterday, I had to run the sound for the Manhattan church (temporarily at the Irving High School across the street), which meant that I had to be there at 8AM, set up, tear down and be at the Queens church by 1:30PM, then head over to Jackson Heights by 4PM to set up and run sound there. I got home at 10:30PM and was all church'ed out by the end of the day. It will be more of the same next Sunday, then hopefully we will be in the new location by the Sunday after. At some point, I should be able to choose which service I go to, which will open up my Sunday mornings when I need to.
It's hard not to write about church because other than riding the bike and work, and some music related stuff here and there, there's not much else in my life right now. Speaking of music, I decided to spend some of my extra time off the bike making a track:
http://soundcloud.com/soundzorg/red-eye
Photo
manhattan
flushing
jackson heights
