foot prints

my carbon foot print has been pretty big lately, so i was really wanting to ride to work today. last week didn't work out because i had to do a bunch of things before and after work almost everyday. so today i was going to ride in. i hadn't ridden since sunday's 96'r.

i don't think i told you about my 96'r. i went out riding with my friends on sunday. we were going to do about a 40 mile road ride. so i decided that i needed something epic, and rode from my house to the meeting place. this added another 30 miles each way. this would make the entire day a little over 100 miles....so i thought. as you can tell from my mobile blog post , i barely made it back home. everything was bothering me... my butt, my head, my skin [forgot sun screen]... oh yeah, my stomach. it was a tough day, and i am just happy to be alive :).

i took monday and tuesday off and wednesday was my next chance. last night my wireless thermometer came in and i really wanted to hook it up to the webcam. this morning i was trying to get my web software working and the time was going by quickly. i wanted to leave home by 7:30... next thing i knew it was 8:00 and i still hadn't taken a shower.... yikes 8:15 i just got it going, and ran off to take a shower. boy! the shower was feeling good this morning. i was just relaxing... then i remembered that i was in a "hurry". i quickly got out, got dressed into my bike clothes, packed my cycling stuff, and out the door i went.

i started out pretty hard, because i was already late. i got about 5 miles out and then i remembered that i didn't have any shoes to wear at work. bummer. when i'm on my bianchi i never had this problem. since it has platform pedals i always wear regular shoes. not so with my road bike. i called up my wife to see if she was going to longmont today...but NOOOO. i went to work anyway, walked around most of the day with my clicky clacky cycling shoes. i tried to stay at my desk most of the day so i wouldn't have to walk around.

except for the shoe thing it was a pretty good day.