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365 Day Photo Challenge 237/365 “I Did as Promised”

23 Sunday Aug 2015

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I stated yesterday that come Hell or high water I was going to ride today. When I woke up it was storming here.  At first I believed that the ride wouldn’t happen.  But, as fate would have it, the skies cleared after lunch and I was able to get a little over 22 miles in.  This coming week the weather looks good for riding each day.  I know Friday evening is out due to a football game and Saturday morning is out due to having to take one of my daughters to a music class.

It really felt good to get out on the bicycle today.  It was a bit windy and I had a headwind for most of my ride.  I had several dogs that tried to attack me today and I have yet to understand why people allow their dogs to run loose in a community where there is a leash law.  I’m just wondering if one of these dogs cause me to have a wreck and it causes me bodily injury who is going to be responsible for my medical bills?  I would think it would be the dog owner but with today’s laws who knows?

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365 Day Photo Challenge 150/365 “Day 1”

01 Monday Jun 2015

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Day 1 is in the books with 26 miles down. With storm clouds overhead and the sound of thunder off in the distance I was certain I would be soaked before the ride was complete. Fortunately, the ride was completed with the storm going around me.

I got an early start today because my wife had a eye doctor appointment so she wasn’t home to have supper ready when I got home.  She’s a school teacher and she’s out for the summer.

I rode 25 miles yesterday and 26 miles today.  I just hope my legs can keep up.  My plans are to ride the same loop I did today except tomorrow and Friday.  Tomorrow I’m going to a state park and riding a 24 mile loop and Friday I will be traveling to Dothan, Alabama to ride in a 41 mile ride on Saturday.

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365 Day Photo Challenge 149/365 “The Great Cycle Challenge”

31 Sunday May 2015

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Tomorrow, June 1st, will be the start of my 500 mile challenge.  With an average of a little less than 17 miles a day, it will indeed be a challenge.  I do average more than 16 miles every time I go riding but I don’t go riding every day.  I also would like to make my goal of $1000 but I think I would make the 500 miles before I make the $1000.

Today was a good day.  I was able to get a 25 mile ride in.  It started out sunshine, then rain then sunshine again.  Typical Alabama weather. With tomorrow being 60% chance of rain I think we will get a decent amount.  We shall see.

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365 Day Photo Challenge 146/365 “Flooding in the Ham”

28 Thursday May 2015

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Another rainy day in Birmingham today. Had several areas in town had a little problem with flooding.  Nothing like out in Texas though. With all this rain today that meant that I didn’t get to ride any.  Oh well, there’s always tomorrow.

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My twin daughters will be going into the 12th grade next year and they had their pictures done yesterday.  My wife was able to take them to their session.  There were several other seniors there at the same time along with their mom’s.  The wife told me last night that most of the other mom’s couldn’t handle the thought of their kids graduating and broke down and sobbed like babies.  My girls were glad that their mom held it together.  I for one am not looking forward to them being seniors but I’ve accepted the fact that there is nothing I can do about it.  They’re growing up on me.

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365 Day Photo Challenge 145/365 “Weather Day”

27 Wednesday May 2015

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On a normal afternoon during this time I would be on my bike getting some mileage in.  Unfortunately this is what is happening as I write.  I’ve ridden twice in the rain and both times it didn’t end well.  The first time I wrecked, popped my front tire and scraped the skin off my left arm and my right knee.  The second time was a little worse when I bent the rear rim, busted both tubes and spent several in the ER checking doing some xrays.  As you may have guessed I”m a little concerned when it comes to me riding in the rain.  My problem was going too fast in a turn and I got too close to the edge of the road while going down hill and over corrected.

Maybe tomorrow I’ll be able to get some saddle time in.

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365 Day Photo Challenge 120/365 “A Beautiful Day to Ride”

02 Saturday May 2015

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Today was absolutely gorgeous.  Beautiful blue skies with just a few passing clouds with just a slight wind.  It took me a little longer to do my 21 mile route because I kept seeing people that I knew that wanted to talk.  I enjoyed my visits with everyone.

I recently changed the bar tape on my bike.  The bike came with white tape but it soon turned gray with all the dirt and and chain oil from changing flats. I decided that I didn’t want white so I went with red.  The jury is still out on whether or not I like it.

I’ve got a new goal, well sort of.  My son will graduate from college in December of this year.  I’d like to see myself at least 25 pounds lighter than I am right now.  More if possible.  That’s a lot of riding and treadmill time but I think I can do it.

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365 Day Photo Challenge 118/365 “Great Weekend Ahead”

30 Thursday Apr 2015

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It’s been a great week and I’m looking forward to an even better weekend.  The weather has been nearly picture perfect here in the deep south.  The only thing is that I haven’t had time to get out and enjoy it.  The last few evenings, instead of getting on the treadmill or riding my bicycle, I’ve been sitting at my laptop either editing pictures or editing videos of the trip I took last weekend.  I had my sights on going riding this evening but I had a tire on my truck start showing some steel so once I got home I took the tire off and replaced it with the spare.  Looks like I’ll be purchasing tires this weekend.

Just heard on the news that we’ve received over ten inches of rain this month.  The normal rainfall for April is four inches.  I will have to say that it’s rained more than we’ve seen the sun. At least we haven’t seen any really bad weather.  I like to see and hear thunderstorms but I hate storms that can spawn tornadoes.

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365 Day Photo Challenge 106/365 “Old Howard 100 Bicycle Ride”

18 Saturday Apr 2015

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Today started off and stayed cloudy which is pretty good considering it could have been either hot and steamy or worse, raining.  As far as I know no one was injured or wrecked in today’s ride which is always good.  I on the other hand had a couple of issues.  One that I couldn’t help was that I had a flat about 60 yards from the second rest stop.  I really came out pretty good on that one.  I even had SAG support there if I needed help.  I changed the tube and borrowed the SAG’s air pump as so that I wouldn’t have to use one of my CO2 cartridges.  The other issue is that I’ve got to learn to take these hills better.  I know that the only way I”m going to get any better is to 1) lose weight, 2) climb more hills and 3) do some weight lifting with my legs or something to that effect. I find that I hang pretty good with the big dogs until I get to the steep hills then they pull away then I never see them again.

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365 Day Photo Challenge 104/365 “Liquid Sunshine”

16 Thursday Apr 2015

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Another night on the treadmill because it got kind of messy today.  It rained all day and the radar shows that more is on its’ way. I was hoping that the rain would let up by Saturday but as of right now it doesn’t look like it’s going to.  One report is that the rain will return on Saturday afternoon around 1pm.  If that’s the case I might be able to get my ride in before it hits. I’ve only ridden in the rain twice and both times it ended badly.

I’m really debating on whether or not to go on this ride Saturday.  I went yesterday and bought a rain jacket just in case I decide to go.  One thing I’ve got to consider is that it’s an over an hour just to get to the start of the ride.  If I’m going to go that distance I might as well at least attempt to ride and just take my time doing it.

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365 Day Photo Challenge 102/365 “More Treadmill Time”

14 Tuesday Apr 2015

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With the threat of rain I chose not to ride this evening.  It’s supposed to rain all week here in the deep south.  I’m trying to do some sort of exercise six days a week with one rest day.  So far it seems to be working out for me.  With the weather like it is I’m spending a lot of time on the treadmill.  If it’s pretty out I’ll hop on my bicycle and ride for a couple of hours.

This Saturday is the Old Howard, (http://howard.samford.edu/oldhoward/),  When I first started checking the weather a few weeks ago it show thunderstorms.  Then a few days ago it started showing up as partly cloudy.  Today when I checked it was 80% chance of rain and thunderstorms.  If the forecast still shows rain on Friday I will not be going.  I’ve ridden in the rain two times and both times I ended up in a ditch with a busted rim and bruised bones. Simply not taking the risk.

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