I'm back, again?!?!? Nani???

 Wow, it's another post in less than 6 months.  Shocking.

October was a good cycling month.  November has been a bit MEH.  A bit of rain.  A bit of Meh. :P

With a tad over 200 miles it was my best month in YEARS.  Though I haven't weighted in, in a few weeks.  I'm due.  Maybe Friday.  Damn sweet tooth.  

The election results were honestly a shock.  But I guess it's the economy.  And scared folks.  Sigh.  

We also went from 3rd Summer with 70-80's last week to today's high was 52 and I hit a low on my ride in of 30.2 on GPS meaning probably 35?   The good news is I felt well layered in general.  Though I just realized now at 437 that my socks are on inside out.  

Saw Iron Maiden and The Hu last night.  Really good show.  Both bands were excellent.   I've now seen Maiden 2x, and I'm shocked how I enjoyed it.  Though maybe it was also the people watching.  Loved the set and the sound was good.  

Now I'm debating MCR show in summer in Philly.  Uhg.  Philly.  Sigh.  Feeling Emo, so it fitz, I sitz.  

Another half year - Fall 2024.

Wow, again another half year since my last Blogh post.  A busy half year for sure between a new job.  Moving.  Again.  A vacation.  Back To School for my partners kids.  Back to School at work (insanity the first 21 days).  And now the fall rush has started.  Jeez.

Awesomeness:

I'm healthy and regularly biking to work 2 days a week most of the time.   I've done 29 commutes by bike this year.  The now shorter commute 2 days a week to/from MD are way nicer than the 2 days to Vienna.  But I'm sort of missing some of the mileage and how empty the WOD is after you get thru Falls Church.  Hopefully I'm going to start doing some optional riding to get more distance or a better workout in the evenings.   MTB wise....well it's been wet.   We had our first Plan B in a while last week, but this week is looking Plan B.  Bummed but we needed rain.  Trails were dry as flour almost.   In general life is way better than the same point last year and I'm enjoying my new job a lot.  Getting back into work practices after a while out is tough!   

Weight:

Post move I saw 204'ish for a while.  I'm now hanging on around 207.  Need to commit to better feeding stuff.  Please ignore that bacon and bacon and egg sandwhich I had this morning.  Big checkups/health stuff in planning for this year.

Move: 

2 more MAJOR items left.  1 is reduction of external storage from 5x10 and I need to go down to 5x5 this month to avoid a major price increase.  Too much junk.  Or too much camping crap.  Not sure.  A trip to Home Depot for another Rack is necessary I think this week.  Then the CAR.  Tagging stuff in MD sucks especially as VA does Electronic titles and MD still needs physical/printed tiles on Stone.   SUPER hassle.  Plus as my car purchase is less than 6 years ago I get to pay a TAX penalty.  Plus VA property tax for 2024..partial.  sigh.  It's more just annoying.  

 

Life in Gen:

October is just a busy month almost always between MoCo Epic, Membership Drive with the club, a weekend of cabin travel, and other stuff.  Trail work at Wakefield.  BikenetiCX Race.  What a month. 

But then I think about the utter crap fest currently happening to everyone from FL to mid-Central VA.  And I'm thankful for all that I have and all the folks who I know thru those area's who made it safely thru Hell-ene.  Hurricanes suck.  I've known that since I saw the impact of Andrew in the Fall of 1991 when we moved to Orlando then 2 weeks later we had Andrew victims stay in our school auditorium/etc for 2 weeks at least.   We aren't going to kill the planet, ultimately our choices will kill us.  What happens when Kyle turns into a hurricane and repeats Hell-ene next week?

 Ready for this election cycle to be DONE.  

New Things, Old Things

 Wow, almost the end of April   

Been riding more and that's good.  it's honestly been a bit to dry these last few weeks and now high 80's today and 90's for last 2 days of April  Jeez.

207 on the weight in.  Definitely holding some extra lbs post trail work salt and beer fest yesterday.  Keeping my eye on the 205.

Curious on how the commute down and back to foggy feels this week.  The climb back sucked.

Off to meet some peeps for dinner.  Just more of a self check-in.

Time Keeps on Slipping...

 Near 3 years since my last update in Sept 2021.  It's mind boggling how much has changed since then.  And in  , things keep on moving forward.

I've had some steps back unexpectedly.  Family has had challenges.  Love keeps supporting me.  And this year is gonna be SOMETHING else I can already tell in early March.

36 Logged activities for the year so far, though this month I started trying to be more mindful to log longer directed walks.   23 of those are bike rides, lots of MTB and looking to add in more road/cx but we shall see.

Big thing?  Watching the pie hole entrance.    Last May I hit a recent high of 215.  Got down into 210 range3 in Oct/Nov but now I'm finally progressing on the 205 zone.   I hit 206.3 today at pre-lunch weight in.  

For now I'm continuing to focus on a bit less chow in the mouth and a bit more activity.  

And I'm stoked for some MTB rides this spring and early summer!