badass => fatass

My back hurts. 
I pulled a muscle in my back. 

Now this muscle is a very important muscle.  Somehow it interacts with my arms, neck, and legs.  When I move any of those my back gets pissed off at me.  I’m putting the blame on one of these.  Yes, that is a fake person wearing All-Star catching equipment.  It weights maybe 50 ish pounds and the other day I was carrying it around and trying to get it into the back of a car.  I must have tweaked my back in the wrong way. 

I haven’t been too active this week.  I’ve focused my week on the consumption of unhealthy food and reading.  I’m not a fan of reading stories so I read books which make me smart and usually they tend to revolve around Business/Marketing stuff… like Let My People Go Surfing.

I got on the trainer four times this week for an hour and a half effort each.  It’s hard to get on that thing now and I was looking forward towards today’s party ride. 

I did cut my hair though.  There are no more sideburns.  I know.  It’s sad.  They looked hideous anyway. 

i got

this

 I’ll post something with a bit more substance later. 

troubles

Ok.  I received a gift certificate to Performance Bike.  Now I’m buying stuff.  Im getting some GU.  I’m getting some mixes.  I’m getting a $9 yoga DVD because I also received a yoga mat and I am clueless about how to use it. 

I have $1.05 left. 

I must spend it.  Even if it means that I spend extra money.  I have no clue what to get.

Stay tuned….

proof

I slept in the frozen tundra last night.  My brother and I made a snow cave/ igloo type thing by piling up some snow and then hollowing it out.  It was pretty awesome.  Took a few hours to make but it was worth it.  What makes this whole thing even more badass was the fact that we were a mere 50 yards away from our house.  There is nothing like camping in the backyard.  We were even able to watch the Wizard of Oz through the window! 

Stan scared the crap out of me in the middle of the night… Apparently he had a few bad dreams about some punk kids coming and caving in the snow cave while we were in it.  So in the middle of the night he began yelling at the top of his lungs!  He made me think that the snow cave was caving in!

Here’s the proof:

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cornering

This has badass written all over it.  Trust me.

Lets count the ways:

1. The awesome music
2. The first guy … who should give a clinic on high speed cornering
3. Its a crit at night
4. Sparks
5. $5,000 primes are badass
6. The crazy dudes throwin’ their hands in the air on the course
7. At 20 seconds there is a ‘Cross mount by one of the guys who crashed

blisters on my what?

So I’m on my computer working on updating a websites design (which I am completly getting lost at because HTLM is nothing like ASP) and I decide to take a little break and read some blogs…

 So I make my way to J-Pow’s blog and I notice an interesting add.  Lets just say I hope I never get blisters on my… ummm… well… I’ll give you a hint… It begins with a “P” and ends with “enis.”

shazam!

That’s right!  I’m on vacation!  Well, vacation from school.  I’m off for basically a month (I think I return to school on the 20th of January). 

 

Tomorrow I start filling my vacation with all sorts of goodies.  Goodies are good. I get to ride my bike (lots), eat, sleep, hike, snowboard, work (for money!), give gifts, receive gifts, camp, and fly.  Yes, I’m going to fly.  Not sure how yet… but it will happen and I have 30 days to do it.  Stay tuned.

 

Here are mine and your goals for the next 30 days (yes I am making goals for you):

·         Live Rad

·         Ride your bike

·         Go on a bike ride which revolves around food. 

·         Eat something that makes you say “Ahhh!  What the faaak was that?”

·         Make an Igloo and sleep in it

·         Leave MA at least 3 times

·         Live Rad

·         Ride lots of single track

·         Jump out of a _______ .

·         Make a killer pizza

·         Pay off my cell phone bill

just wanna go home

Ok.  I’m tired.  Three more exams and then I’m done.  This repetition of “late nights and early mornings” over the last few days is finally catching up to me.  I feel like shizz.  And shizz is not good.  And good is what we want.  So not good is not good. 

I’m coughing something up and I feel like I am getting the beginnings of Strep Throat.  Hopefully by the weekend my body will get some nice R&R and feel better.  

I haven’t touched the bike since Friday. 

exams

So here’s the deal.  I have a test tomorrow.  Its gonna be cake.  Then I have two on Tuesday.  Those are gonna suck.  Then I have a presentation for my web development class on Wednesday.  Then I’m done. 

I should have studied all day but I have been distracted by this stupid game and listening to tons of random music on Pandora. 

I can’t wait untill Thursday. 

germinating clementine seeds

I just went on one of the funniest bike rides of my life.  With ‘cross bikes in hand, a school friend and I ventured out into the fresh foot of snow we just received.  The back side of campus has a 5k running trail which meanders through the woods.  It’s something that I can take a quick few laps on whenever I need a fix.  So that’s where we headed.  You get there by riding on a downhill paved road and then take a sharp left into the woods at the bottom.  The road part was easy…  

                There was a nice big mound of snow piled up right in front of the entrance and we both just plow right through it!  Snow everywhere! Feakin’ awesome! The trail starts off downhill turning through a few trees and then opens up into a field which then leads back into some double track sections.  Riding through the deep snow was hard.  I was in my highest gear, legs were burning, and if you stopped at all it would be almost impossible to start back up again.  It wasn’t too long until we each wiped out into the fluff and retraced our tracks out to the road. 

                But we weren’t done yet… we flew through the parking lot and rode through basically every pile of snow.  Sounds stupid… but it was a blast.  We did that for like an hour. 

               

                Now I’m chillin’ on my bed and eating clementines which have seeds in them… so I’m suckling on them. 

I have fifteen race numbers on my wall… Everyone calls me cheap for not buying real posters… and I laugh at them.  These fifteen numbers cost 20-25 dollars each and at least 30 dollars of gas to go get each of them.  So I basically spent over $800 to decorate my wall.  I don’t have any more money to buy real posters…

 

Think about all the other things I could have bought with $800…