More Power!

Have been under the weather for a few days. Even more power draining than an oncoming cold for a man, a real man, is the failure of one’s power tools. Yesterday working on a project to rehabilitate our home my electric drill began to fail. Fortunately I got from it all I needed for the day and kept it from a noble but tortuous death in service to its master.

Finally, with the help of Emery’s, that bike enthusiast driven let’s do a triathlon center of fitness bliss, I finally, yes finally got the old road bike back in working order. A piecemeal effort over the summer months has come to fruition as the bicycling season is quickly coming to an end. And I still haven’t swung the cash for a new helmet.

Riding the road bike, to the gym and such takes some getting used to after being off her for so long. The small ring is bigger the the big ring on my mountain bike. I may rebuild the entire mountain bike again, though I really need a new one to compete. The basement will become my work station most of the Winter as I have several projects other than repairing the bike in mind, including creating a bit of finished space for a trainer and exercising. I should make use of all the free fitness videos available on our Roku. How long will they be called videos?

Time, circumstance and the lack of a second vehicle will most likely keep me from the Wigwam MTB Challenge, WORS’ finally event of the season. The word is they will ride the course backwards this year. Not by bike but in reference to the direction of the course. I must set my mind on rebuilding this Winter, not just my mountain bike and state of fitness, to compete with more power next year, but financially, professionally and every way possible.

I missed the “Ray’s sneak peak” last week. It was a night of free riding for Trek employees and Metro Mountain Bikers members. Again it conflicted with my schedule. My Wisconsin site visits overcame the number of visits I was racking up from California, after I wrote of Ray’s Milwaukee several times after they first arrived in Milwaukee. I am not sure why I have so many visits from California. I should visit Ray’s this Winter but it is 4-5 dollars in gas just to get there.

I did get to Metro’s monthly meeting Tuesday. The highlights? IMBA is creating a GPS mapping system and production specifications. Metro wants a new logo but many do not know why. One of the expenses with changing the logo is paying IMBA $300 for the change. Well over a dozen, up to two dozen, will qualify for the fifteen hour of volunteer work free T-shirts by the end of the year. Waukesha is coming along with some great new trails in Minooka.

I haven’t been out to Crystal Ridge for some time, but the baseball park development has brought many changes, still ongoing. For those of you who believe the holiday season begins with Halloween rather than Thanksgiving, or in other words you evil doers, Crystal Ridge is the site of “The Hill has Eyes.”