Trying Again

There is a group going out to the Greenbelt today, so hopefully I won't get lost this time or anything...

In other news, I don't have to order at Starbucks any more. Well, unless I want something besides a grande mocha...

Epic Ride of Epic Epicness

There is only one word that can describe my ride this afternoon. I'm just going to let you guess it...

I got out of class, and knowing I wouldn't have tome to do the 'nighter with studio stuffage, I decided toho do some sort of ride before it got too late. Walnut Creek was out since I'm doing that tomorrow, and I really did not feel like riding my road bike for whatever reason. Anyway, I ended up deciding to ride the mountain bike to the Greenbelt and get some sweet action there.

*Note: I have only ridden to the Greenbelt once, about 4 months ago*

I was on my way down there, and after only making one wrong turn (which I realized after about ten feet) I could see Zilker Park, which meant I had basically successfully navihated myself to the trail head. Blah, blah, blah... I'm riding to the park down the bike path and there is this group of people stopped under a bridge blocking the trail. Randomly it turns out to be Andrew, Tyler, Tristan, and Carlos. Tristan says something about me just missing Tyler and Carlos crach into each other and go down. Dang it!!

I get to the trail, check the time, and decide to make my ride about 2 hours total, meaning about 30 minutes out on the trail, then back. After a little while, I'm having such a good ride, I decided to go ahead and bump it up to about 2.5 hours.

Thats all fine and dandy until on my way back I accidentally took one of the side trails and eventually ended up out in the river bed (thankfully it was completely dry) hiking for about 15 minutes to find the next place the trail crossed it. At one point I was pretty sure I was in the wrong river and would end up having to ditch my bike and go find some road or something and hitch-hike back to campus. That thought made me sad ) :

Turns out it was the right creek though, and wherever I got back on the trail ended up taking me to the famed chain-in-the-cliff section. Then I took some other side trail again and ended up on the road in some neighborhood. I could have easily gone back to the trail and left the way I know, but that didn't seem very fitting for this ride, so I just rode until I found some major-ish looking road that went towards downtown and followed it. Several other roads,bike paths, and sidewalks later I made it to streets I regocnized as downtown and headed back to campus with a short stop at the 9th street jumps thrown in, since I was in that part of the city.

(a la the Racing Chronicles - R.I.P.)
Total Ride Time: more or less 2 hours 45 minutes
Total Hiking Time: 20 minutes
Hydration: I stopped to pee once?
Rating on Scale of Epicness (from 1-14): 10.3

Reimer's

Well, I guess I got feeling better - I got a 5th at the race ($25 woo!) only +/-30 seconds behind 4th!! Results aren't up yet to know how far off of Bennett I was, but I don't think it was really to much of a gap. Updates later.

blergh

I don't know what was up with me at the crits tonight... They felt like they should have been really easy, but i felt really bad... Hopefully I'm better by this weekend for Reimer's...

"Mayo, mustard, and hot peppers?"

"Yeah, all four." -Justin

Crit

Yay, team!

I did a solo break away off the start line to set up a break that somehow stuck for the last 43 minutes of a 45 minute crit. Sean (U.T.) was in it but got owned by the two St. Ed's guys and finished third. Later another group got off the front with Tony (another U.T. guy) in it. They stuck that break too and Tony got a 6th. Blah blah blah racing stuff. Last lap comes and I do a lead out for Kyler, but Matt Sauls jumps in between us... Kyler still outsprinted him though, giving us an 8th, also! Woo.

Sitting In A Field

Last night someone set of the fire alarm in Jester at like freakin one in the morning... Then my alarm clock didn't go off, so I ended up missing the carpool and just diving myself out to the race. And I was really tired.

It was uber cold when we got there, but warmed up nicely by the end of the road race. Said road race was pretty easy, with basically no wind. I got 10th. Not too bad for a race finishing with a long downhill sprint (which is not something I'm too good at...)

Then we sat around in a field all day while the officials went and got lunch for 2.5 hours, and were an hour late for the time trial starts...

Time trial went decent, I didn't know the course and thusly didn't go quite as hard as I could have, but considering, it wasn't bad.

Then we sat around in a field and waited for TT results, which we won't get until tomorrow...

Then I got back to campus and sat around in a field to see The Roots! (FOR FREE!!) As good as they are, I left before they finished to go to bed, but ended up writing this instead.

So, I'm going to go to bed now. Crit tomorrow.

Stupid

Earlier today I finished the most pointless architecture project ever: making a model out of soap. With normal materials it could have been done for 1/8 the price and in about 1/4 the time. And it would have looked better. Then Jose tells us that there is no reason to ever have to do this in the real world, and it is a pointless project.

At least I have a sweet mothers day gift now... "Here mom, I got you a (5 pound) block of soap! In the shape of my model!!"

In my roomates world...

It seems that when you run out of soap the correct solution is not to buy more, but rather to just stop using it. The last 5 weeks of school are going to smell really lovely...

This May Be Long

It rained most of the day, but stopped eventually allowing me to go get a short ride in. It was so ridiculously humid I went for a run around Jester after my ride to finish up my triathlon.

How much do you have to like a house to bring it with you when you move?


I used to think architecture was a dangerous major, but I don'tthink we've ever done anything that required 9 fire trucks, 4 hazardous material trucks, 4 fire marshals, and 3 ambulances all at the same time before... The biology department on the other hand, well, they needed them all last night...
(picture was too dark to make anything out...)

I got a sweet new cd in the mail today:



I need to think of a good April Fools Day thing for studio tomorrow... Hmm...