August 9th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
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……..got the miles in AND finished my 8 for 8!
Yeah!
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August 9th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
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…this was mother nature’s way of punctuating our swim today.
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August 7th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
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I must have made some Good Juju deposits in my karma account as, the last few times, I’ve rolled up to Martha Lake and scored a parking spot right away. On the very few really nice days of our summer, this is nothing short of a miracle. Thank you, Parking Gods! I will continue to spread love and light in the world!
(Plus, I had a decent swim! Knocked almost 3 minutes off -and that includes a short tete-a-tete with Bob at the half-way stump. Yeah!)
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August 7th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
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…ahhh, the secret to beating the heat is heading out later in the evening. The gnats are out but it’s a fair trade off. :-0
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August 6th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
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ARRGHHHHHH!
Every year I know this day will come….. sooner or later I know I will wake up at my normal time (5am) and it will be dark……. it is a sad day as I know this is the start of ‘fall’ and then…’winter’ will come. I am so solar powered.
:o(
Where can I live where it’s LIGHT out every morning at 5am? I don’t care if it gets dark early in the evening…….I just want to wake up to sun!!
Help!!
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August 6th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
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WhoooHOOO! A bike tour of the back country of Kirkland! Read: made a few ’alternate’ turns and ’discovered’ some cool hills! :o) It was a great way to start the day…even if it did start while it was still DARK outside!
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August 5th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
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thanks E for being willing to spot my swim!!!
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August 5th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
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Ay Carumba! Hit a hard run before being the human GPS for E & C. It was stokin’!! Glad I got the few minutes in.
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August 4th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
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Speedy Reedy welcomed the Cervelo folks (and their giant truck of Big Girl Toys!) for an afternoon of test riding. They filled the parking lot with what could have been the CSC homebase for Le Tour. I tested the SLC-SL…. which climbed Stone Way like a rockstar. I then played on the steeper hills of Wallingford and tried to pick up on the trail. (The trail was a zoo so I abandoned that idea quickly.)
About this bike, Bicycling Magazine says: “The best pure racer,” enthused our testers. “Like a sword,” and “ideal for breakaway specialists or those who live for windy crits,” this aero-tubed carbon bike “doesn’t waste a Watt,” and screams “I’m coming to kick your ass.”
Ha ha ha! Yeah. That’s me. The ‘breakaway specialist’. Ha ha ha ha!!! And I’m “coming to kick your ass!“ Ha haahha! Who writes this stuff??? 
I’m glad no ‘watts were wasted’ but next time I’d like to test the Soloist Carbon or the R3.
Oh, and I’ll definitely bring my own seat. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch.
:-)
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August 3rd, 2008 at 1:35 pm
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The lake was calling me…but I didn’t have a buddy to swim with… So I thought to myself, “What would MacGyver do?”…. He would pull out his paper-clip, chewing gum, and scraps of recyclable plastic bags and build a solution that would save the world!
So that’s exactly what I did. Well, except for the paper-clips, chewing gum, plastic bags and saving the world parts.
My solution was to take a round pool noodle (already built in a circle shape) and 11 feet of braided nylon rope….and made myself a fine-looking, life saving swim can! Yep, I could save myself and I saved $49.50 plus shipping! (That’s what Kiefer.com is charging for a swim can these days.)
My 1.1 mile swim was secure, sunny AND I knew that if anything happened - I had the tools to save the day.
Whoever said TV wasn’t educational sure didn’t catch many episodes of MacGyver!!!
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