OK… Time for a snow ride.
I’ve started a new tradition: M.F.T.R.O.T.W.
Every Sunday, for the past couple weeks, I have been making one big meal which I am capable of eating for lunch and dinner for the rest of the week… hence: M.F.T.R.O.T.W. (Meals For The Rest Of The Week). The last couple weeks it was some oh so good chili and this week it is ohh so good soup.
Here’s how I made my soup this week (because I know you are curious):
1) Cook 3 chicken breasts and then slice it into chunks
2) Cut up onions (I used 3)
3) Cut up carrots (I used a lot)
4) Cut up other stuff (Peppers, Celery, Potatoes)
5) Add some tortellini
6) Add a ton of broth
7) Boil it… for like an hour.
8 ) Add some spinach
9) Eat.
It’s pretty good stuff.
What will it be next weekend? Stay tuned.
I’m working on the foundation now. It’s going to be a strong foundation too built with Weights, Endurance, Force, Speed, and Muscular Endurance training. Sounds kind of complicated but it all basically boils down to riding a lot, riding easy, spinning my legs really fast at times, and staying seated.
This is going to be my first year with a structured training plan… I even have a week by week playbook already thrown together and also have a training journal. One of my goals of the season is to simply follow this training plan. Wish me luck. Oh yea… I’m shooting for around 600 training hours. I feel like that is a reasonable amount where most weeks will be around 13 and under.
I’ve been doing my best to get outside and ride since I’ve been back at school. Yesterday was nice. The sun was out and most of the roads were clear of snow and puddles. I did get chased by a little dog though… and it scared the crap out of me. It forced me to knock the chain up into the big ring and out sprint the son of a b*tch (pun intended) until it fell back. At least I didn’t have to resort to kickin’ it.
OK, I’ve gotta make some soup. Check back lata.
Vroom Vroom
New Shades…
Nuts. Today I bought my last round of textbooks EVAR. I am pretty excited though… one of my classes is about writing for “new media” aka the internet. One of the books is about blogging… umm yea… this class is going to be awesome. Ha, maybe the point of this post is to merely suck up to my future teacher in case she ever stumbles upon this blog. I have high expectations for the class and maybe it will allow me more time to post on here. I flipped through the other book for the class too… and it seems like I have a fairly solid grasp of it… because it’s about the internet… and content… and what users like and look for. I’m excited
Oh and before I forget… head on over to chrisjourney.com to help support Juice Box. He asked me to throw a site together for his ride from FL to MA in order to raise awareness and money for the cure of Amyloidosis, which his mom has. We got the site up and running last night so go check it out.
….of a Stairmaster.
Sorry, Ive been Tweeting much more than blogging lately.
I’ll get back into rhythem when I get back to school and have awesome stuff to talk about.
Oh yea. Rollin’ steady with a gear. I figured I’d change my Stumpy into a single speed too since Ive been riding this guy all over the place. I have yet to ride it… Gotta get out this weekend…
Ive also been building wheels… aka taking old crappy rusty ones apart and re-building them. I’m getting the hang of it… I dont want to buy pre made wheels anymore… I want to make them myself.
Elvis was born today.
If he were still around… he would have be honored to have been born on the same day as me.
I expect no less than 42 comments on this post wishing me a Happy Birthday.
Of course, I’ll be lucky if I get one…
I just want to show my parents that I really do have friends… even if they are on the interweb.
I have work at 8. It’s also payday. WOOOO WHOOOOO!!
December. Nuts. This month has been nuts. Like super nutty.
Lots of pictures will be used in this post too…
The month began with dishes. Lots of dishes. Very few of them were mine… but it seems that I am the one who ends up doing them anyway. It’s funny what happens when I stop doing them. Oh yea. The same thing happens with the trash too.
I would often go single speeding at the local pickle park and put bananas in my shoes for the ride over.
I tried to grow a beard again… but that failed.
I raced my bike twice in one weekend in December to wrap up a season of 5 races.
I did a fun ride with RI NEMBA. I donated pickles at the pickle park… that was ironic. I also ate some damn good apple crisp after the ride.
I baked a huge cake from scratch with a super duper biking friend from school. We ate it all in two days… including the day we made it.
I spent a lot of time editing while trying to study for exams.
I packed my car for vacation.
I drove a tractor across town minutes away from the snow storm. It was cold.
I started the Bad Brad Jurga Super Awesome Training Program ( BBJSATP for short). When I went to school in September I was 158 lbs. I am now just shy of 180. Something has gotta change.
And that’s about it.
Oh and there is this. Read the 9th comment. It will be worth it. Trust me.
Roar.
Lots going on. So I guess I shall share. Hold on.
I have a new phone number. Yes I know I could have kept it but due to weird circumstances and my desire to get a new phone I was forced to cancel my old contract and hop onto my families new family plan… which is awesome.
So here ya go.
You can reach me at: 978 – 602 – 7897
Feel free to e-mail me too because that too will get sent to my phone.
I love my new phone.
Yadda yadda yadda.
I’m on “vacation” now. Vacation means I don’t go to school, study, or pull all nighters. Vacation also means that I work an 8 – 5 job maintaining websites and designing tons of stuff. It’s pretty cool because today lots of the packaging which I designed (artwork and general design) over the summer was now arriving… like actual products which will be shipped all over the world. It’s pretty awesome.
I hiked Wawa yesterday. Holy crap. This thing usually takes 45-55 min to hike up… It took me and my brother about 2.5 for our first trip up. The backside of the mountain had tons of fallen debris from the ice storm a couple weeks ago. Trees and branches scattered the backside of the Mt. along with a fresh 1.5 feet of snow, which made hiking fast nearly impossible. It was like doing the limbo every 10 seconds with a board strapped to your back which would keep on hitting the pole. Oh yea… and that 2.5 hours of hiking up also includes the time we spent hiking on the road… because after awhile… we just said eff the woods. We were going nowhere.
The snow on the way down though was great so we decided to head back up again. This time we took another route which involved part of a ski trail, some bush whacking, almost being run over by one of the ski resorts caterpillar snow beasts, and then hiking up the Down Road. We arrived at the summit in just under an hour. That’s more how I like it. I brought my camera… but forgot my battery (which was still charging when I wanted to begin taking pictures).
I’ve been drinking a lot of eggnog. Not spiked.
Oh and I can’t forget to promote this. You should come. It’s $10 for food, beer, mingling, and watching a 20 min vid which I threw together during my exam week. It will be fun. Chances are that if you read this… and know me… you will be in it.
Tomorrow is Christmas Eve Eve.
I’m done x-mass shopping.
I’ve been on the rollers a few times already.
Oh, it snowed a ton and I want mooooore.
Mmhmm.
Ive looked at so many crappy PowerPoint slides over the past few days. It’s only gonna get worse.
