25 Random Things about me (#1 - #5)

I recently got tagged with the task of coming up with 25 random; things, facts, habits, or goals about myself. Here are the first 5 of 25.

01- I started doing some serious yoga a little over a year ago and enjoy it very much.

02- My interest in biking re-started several years ago as a way to improve my health, now it's a passion (or is it obsession?).

03- I have drawings I did for an art class of a clamshell "communicator" / cellphone in ~1979, several years before the StarTAC was introduced.





04- I grew up on a farm in West-Central Illinois.

05- I enjoy cooking and baking, which I owe to my Mom for letting me help with baking as a kid.

More to follow...

Blogs in the bike lane

There seem to be multiple "In the Bike Lane" blogs out there lately. I started posting to this blog a little over 2 years ago (Aug. 2006), but what's interesting is the name seems to be very popular lately.

Trek likes it with their Life In the Bike Lane blog.

Bicycling Magazine also likes it with their recent In the Bike Lane blog.

Blogging for me is a type of journaling, to get thoughts from the brain into "print". One of my early posts expressed it this way;

"Sometimes life is like being in the Bike Lane; watch over you're shoulder, keep pedaling, heads up, stay in your own lane, pedal harder up the hills and coast down them, drink plenty of fluids and take a rest day once in a while."

Currently I'm working on a re-design of the Spring City Spinners website, as the current one is getting a little long in the tooth.

Safe riding all (no matter which bike lane you're in)

Because you ride...(from Bicycling magazine)

From the pages of assorted Bicycling Magazines from the past 6 years. It's fun to think about after a long ride.

• 2.5 - the number of tubs of Betty Crocker Rich & Creamy Vanilla frosting that could be eaten to replenish the 5,148 calories burned during a 107-mile ride with avg speed of 15-mph.
  
• 10 - the number of homemade sugar cookies you'd have to eat to replenish the 680 calories burned during a 1-hour cyclocross race.
• 11 - the number of Firecracker pops (385 calories) you can eat after riding 8 miles to your friends barbecue at 14 mph.

And in a slightly different format

Ride like this.............And burn enough calories to eat this
1 hr @ 10-mph..............2 Chocolate frosted Dunkin donuts (400 calories)
1 hr drafting @ 19-mph.....3 Taco Bell Supremes (810 calories)
3 hr @ 12-14-mph...........6 beef hot dogs on buns (1753 calories)
6 hr Mtn Bike race........31 homemade brownies (3472 calories)
An MS 150 @ 13-mph......1835 plain m&ms (6,275 calories)