Watched MSU/Tennessee game. I'm of the opinion this may be the best NCAA Division I basketball tournament evar unless it's your team that lost. So many close games and "upsets". Good for college basketball. Missed the second game.

My oldest daughter and her family arrived for family night. This is where we have a meal, play wii and watch a movie. My job is to entertain the grand kids, all under age 6. Entire family was grouchy when they arrived. At least they were reasonably even keeled when they left.

Now? Peace and quiet is restored.

Nothing, just hung out and listened to music all day. Come to think that is pretty good.

set up the listening room by hanging the GIK room treatments, what a major improvement. I still have some first reflection adjustments to do but overall very satisfying

Raced my son's pinewood derby car the "Surf Rocket 9000" with his cubscout pack today and took first place in his den and tied for the fastest car at the meet.

I also took first place in the Dad's race with my "Old School 47k" )

Pinewood derbies are great fun. I remember helping my daughter with her Barbie car. She had alot of fun smoking the boys. Good times

I'll have probably no time for this but it's so hard to stop the urge to grow something this summer....

So I'm looking to buy a few of these Biotops ( NETWORK ) and try fo figure out an effective way of keeping the plants out of reach of the new cat....

Amicalement

set up the listening room by hanging the GIK room treatments, what a major improvement. I still have some first reflection adjustments to do but overall very satisfying

Pics man, damn.

learned that I need another year or two in my legs to be remotely competitive in cat5 racing. It's almost laughable how much more you have to push compared to the "fast" group rides around here.

Woke up late, but still got to the train station in time for the 8:32 train to Penn Station. Just printed a shipping label to ship my Triple-fi 10vi's to Logitech.

It's almost laughable how much more you have to push compared to the "fast" group rides around here.

My brother is an expert class amature mountain bike racer. He's in incredible shape.

In a race last year his time for four laps of the 5 mile course,

was about the same as the time the pros did SIX LAPS!!!

Unbelievable.

My brother is an expert class amature mountain bike racer. He's in incredible shape.

In a race last year his time for four laps of the 5 mile course,

was about the same as the time the pros did SIX LAPS!!!

Unbelievable.

Yeah but I'm just racing cat 5 (absolute beginner) so it's a bit eye opening. In road racing they let the Cat1 (expert equivalents) race with the pros all the time. A lot of races are pro/1/2. That said I don't know of any of the big ProTour level races that allow that.

Cheers,

Chris

A big part of road racing comes down to tactics and drafting, you want to be in the front third of the group so you don't get see-sawed and gapped out of the draft every time the peloton slows for a corner. When you're closer to the back there's a hell of a lot more speed variation as the group bunches up and spreads out, and you'll waste a lot more energy slowing down then accelerating hard to get back into the draft. If you're at the back it's only a matter of time before you get popped off and when that happens you're screwed until you can get a few other riders together and form a paceline.

Try to stay with the leaders as long as you can, when you can't do it anymore drop off and latch onto the chase group(s), and when that fails drop back to the main group. Never ride alone if you can help it, for instance if you're in between the lead & chase group, don't blow yourself out trying to maintain position or jump to the lead group, ease up and recover a bit, then join the chase group and let them pull you back up front.

next time try cat5e.

I gave up bike riding - I got fed up with how much it hurt falling off. Now I stick to running - you go slower and can't fall off

Certainly costs a lot less, too.

Running is fun, in a morbidly masochistic way. I like it.

Had surgery today to remove a small piece of torn meniscus. All went well (according to the Doc) and my ACL was found to still be intact so no further surgery will be required. I feel like I've been roofied but otherwise pretty decent and recovery is supposed to be pretty quick.

I see a lot more biking and less running in my future.

Good to hear everything went well Nate. I wish you a speedy recovery

Good to hear everything went well Nate. I wish you a speedy recovery

x2.

All in all it sounds like good news Nate. Glad to hear it.

I see a lot more biking and less running in my future.

...... and a lot of sitting in front of your new tools?

Had surgery today to remove a small piece of torn meniscus. All went well (according to the Doc) and my ACL was found to still be intact so no further surgery will be required. I feel like I've been roofied but otherwise pretty decent and recovery is supposed to be pretty quick.

I see a lot more biking and less running in my future.

Go easy on the recovery, and do whatever god awful exercises the physio tells you. I had a knee op three years ago, and it was scary how the leg that was op'd on lost muscle tone in spite of lots of single leg strengthening. I've got back to running, but it has been a long journey.

Folks I know who have had knee ops (and there are quite a few) either had to stop running and take up biking or swimming, or got away with it and still run. Do whatever works and have a really speedy recovery.

That's really good news Nate! Take it easy for a bit. Build a few amps or something.

Wishing you a speedy recovery! Glad to hear no further ACL attention required.

Went to my first kendo class. I need to buy a shinai and practice on my own now. Preferably not in my house as I'd probably end up destroying everything, including the shinai.

Congrats Nate! Biking is good.

kendo (or kumdo, the korean equivalent) is fun. I gave it up for taekwondo but a bunch of my hs friends still practice regularly.

Taekwondo is pretty awesome too, I wish I could do a martial art on top of kendo but even kendo is pushing it in terms of time. I really don't have time for it, but if I don't do it now, I won't ever.