It’s Sunday night and this is about the first real time since Friday evening that I’ve sat in front of the computer. I know, I know, it was barely two days. But that’s a lot of time in the digital world when your job consists of keeping a web based application up 24/7.
Part of the reason for the disconnect was that my Dad came over Saturday to help out on a wiring project. Our house is about 50~60 years old and a lot of the wiring is original and done with aluminum wire. I am told it was cheaper and more readily available when our house was built. It’s also kind of a fire hazard.
(Note: Drawing not to scale.)
Dad helped out replacing 5 outlets. We passed on the 6th for right now as it was connected to the same circuit as the bathroom lights. How that happened, I don’t know. Our two hour project took a whole day, but we’re steadily making progress on rewiring the house.
Sunday I met some friends out at Site M aka Jim Edgar Panther Creek State Park, I prefer Site M, for some mountain biking. A beautiful unseasonable 80 degrees out, but was a great day for a ride. I think I spent four hours out there.
Just a great fall weekend.
Doing all that physical activity wouldn’t be fun unless you could come back from your workout and logged it to the internet, right?
Right?!
Okay, so I am a nerd and have a thing with numbers and seeing a graphical representation of those hours on the bike.
I’ve been using an online tool called DailyMile (http://www.dailymile.com/people/gotshoo). It’s a great little tool that let’s you log your mileage, time on the pavement, or your laps in the pool. Cool thing about it is that you can join groups with other people in your physical activity. I joined ‘My First Century’, but it’s just me and another dude. I did see some other groups with great q/a like ‘Couch to 5K.’
I’ve got 24 invites - let me know if you’re interested.
Today I did the Tour de Corn, a bike ride done in conjunction with the Chatham Sweet Corn Festival. The course was a choice of 20, 31, or 62 miles long. I did 31.
I was really tempted to do the 62 miles, but I haven’t gotten in enough rides over the 30 mile mark yet. If you saw the blurb about me in the SJ-R, I stated my goal is to accomplish a century (100 miles). I am slowly making my way there - this week I biked a total of 110miles including today’s ride.
Today’s ride was great, it was a beautiful morning, the rain clouds were still hanging around with a little drizzle so the humidity was low and the sun wasn’t shining down yet.
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