First ride of the year

This is what happens when my wife
isn't here to keep me in check. 
What a beautiful day we had in NWA. I wasn't going to allow myself to be lazy today. I had to get out on the bike at some point. It was supposedly judgement day, so I wanted to try and make the most out of it. I got all geared up to go ride and I saw that I had a hole in the sidewall of my front tire. I took this as a sign that I wasn't supposed to ride. I was already afraid that a driver would get raptured near me and his car would run me over before I had a chance to get raptured myself.

I went back in the house and took my gear off and tried to decide what I wanted to do. I couldn't think of anything, and I knew I would feel guilty if I didn't get out there on my bike. I decided to go to the store and buy a new tire for my front wheel. It would have been cheaper to order one online, but I wouldn't have it for a week.


I wanted to make sure I was grouped
with the hillbillies (or civil war
re-inactors) when we left Earth.
While I was at the store there was a couple shopping for road bikes. They were upper middle-aged... and not in great shape. He had narrowed it down between two Orbea bikes, costing $3800 and $4999 respectively. His wife was pushing him for the more expensive one. Amazing. I'm all for people taking up biking and getting more exercise, but seriously. He could have bought a nice aluminum frame bike for $1200 and been perfectly happy. It would have lasted him for thousands of miles... which he would likely never ride that much anyway.

I got my tire and came home and put in on. I rode for about an hour, and I was whipped. I am extremely out of shape right now. Hopefully I will get enough time this summer to ride fairly consistently. I have almost 4,000 miles on my bike (at least since I got my new computer). In reality I have more than that, but I have no clue how much. I didn't ride much at all last year, so almost all those miles were from 08 and 09.

Since I have total freedom this weekend I should go golfing or something else manly and fun like that. However, I don't have the energy. That hour on the road bike killed me. I'm not sure what I'm going to do tomorrow. I was banking on the apocalypse, so I didn't make any plans. Whatever I do will probably involve me on the couch watching a movie or something.

I was proud of myself this morning. I made myself laugh with my own rapture joke, so I had to post it on facebook. Booyah. My mom liked it, but mom's have to like their kids' stuff right?