Archive for the ‘Biking’ Category
102 miles + 95 degrees + 2 wheels + no motor = not a good idea (But I’m glad I did it)
2009
08.10
08.10
Yes for all of you who doesn’t know what that means, it means that I did a century on my road bike. It was a battle all the way from 25 miles into it, until I got back to the finish line. My body was constantly saying that it’s do it, but my mind said that it aught to. Battleing 95 degree heat from St. Paul, through Lake St. Louis, out to Wright city, up to (going off the trail) Troy, Moscow mills, Lunch, Wentzville (No rest stops for 38 miles), and back. It was defnetly a test of endurance, which I think I passed.
Today is the day!
2009
07.23
07.23
Today we leave for CHICAGOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Not that we’re excited or anything! 
We’re biking around Chicago, playing a little tennis, eating some sushi, doing some kayaking along the river, eating out somewhere special for CJ’s birthday (I don’t know where yet), watching a bike race around Chicago, and–I apologize ahead of time Cards fans–maybe going to a Cubs game. Now…of course we’re not going to be supporting the Cubs if we do! We’ll cheer on the other team all the way, but it would be cool to see a game in Wrigley Field, so please forgive us for stepping foot on “unholy ground” when the Cards aren’t in town! 
We’ll post pictures when we return! See you then!
Chi-town, Here we come!!!
2009
07.06
07.06
3 weeks away and we are packing up the bikes and going to Chicago!!
I can’t wait, it should be fun and a cheap way to tour around and see Chicago.
Concerts at Grant park on Friday
Venetian night on Saturday
I am also taking my gf to a very nice place in Chicago Saturday night for Dinner…ok, maybe it’s for my Birthday, but heck…you’ll have to come back and see where she took me. (or me took her)
Then maybe a Cubs game on Sunday…
Things are adding up…for the ride
2009
06.04
06.04
So I have been debating, if I am ready and want to do the century yet or not. For those who do not know, I am riding in the Tour de Cure this saturday and have been thinking about really pushing myself to do the 100 miles for the first time. I have been looking at the weather.
Seems like it’s going to be a beautiful day, but just a tad hot (but I like it hot). I also have to keep in mind that we will be biking along the river, and I heard the river usually brings along a lot of wind with it. That will mean head wind, I know there aren’t many hills on this ride, but riding into a head wind, can sometimes seem like riding up a hill. So…what should I do?
I know afterwards I can cool off, because we will have free admission into raging rivers. hmmmm….
All finished and worn out
2009
05.25
05.25
Well we finally finished the Horsey Hundred this weekend. We biked about 92+ miles on Saturday and Sunday. Tired but feelin’ good…we burned thousands of calories–always great!
If you visit our site and were drawn here by our jersey’s or meeting us at the HH…leave us a comment! We’d love to hear from the people we met or passed on the road this weekend!
Horsey Hundred
2009
05.19
05.19
Well…it’s set…we’re taking off in a couple days…heading for the beautiful sights of Georgetown, KY! We returned the new camera toy CJ bought and replaced it with a caribener camera that’s 100x better than the other!
We will have pictures posted from our ride and the weekend adventures both on and off the road as soon as we return!
To make the weekend even better…we’re heading to Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois on Sunday to enjoy Memorial Day camping and relaxing after a long bike riding weekend!
Wish us luck this weekend!!!
RAGBRAI
2009
05.18
05.18
Sweet…It will be right at my birthday.. July 23rd (It will always be the last full week of July)
For all of you that don’t know…I am making plans of doing this RAGBRAI in 2010 for my 30th birthday.
It’s a bike ride across Iowa (470 miles). It’s kinda of one of those over the hill things…actually for this ride it’s going to be lots of climbing up hills(Iowa’s not flat) << to give you an idea, the amount of hills you climb during the trip is about 23,000 feet of climbing- equivilant to 4 miles stright up.
Should be fun and a great accomplishment. I have a few friends that are interested in going and should be one heck of a party for my 21st!!! (OK…30th). Anyone else is welcome…
A letter to the old biking man who passed me yesterday…
2009
05.12
05.12
To the old biking man who passed me yesterday,
Hi, I would like to join you in congratulating yourself on passing me and my gf yesterday. I am sure it made you feel real good about yourself. The fact that we are young cyclists in our late 20’s and going as fast as we wanted to on a beautiful day, should not stop you in obtaining your goal of getting a good workout in and prolonging your happy life.
On a side note, I do want to thank you for passing me yesterday. It got me thinking, thinking that this guy has got to have at least 30 years on me. Oh, my gosh, I thought…what can happen in thirty years. I still have my whole life ahead of me, there are hundreds of miles I can still bike in my life. Some rides just started popping in my head. By this time, you were way up there. I thought, I couldn’t let him just get away. So, I dug in and sped to get up to you.
I snapped a picture of you and that’s when I noticed you were wearing a RAGBRAI jersey. That got me real pumped up, cause I was thinking about doing the RAGBRAI(ride across Iowa) next year, and now there is no excuse good enough not to go ride 470 miles.
After that ride, I will do another, and another…until I am that old biking man that still has it.
This, I can tell is the beginning of a long happy journey. So Thank You Mr biking man.
Sincerely,
Biking for Sushi,