Riden outside YES
It was actually warm enough outside today to ride out side 45 and sunny that is amazing. It has been one of the coldest month I can remember in quite some time. I have enjoyed all the snow with some great XC skiing and snowboarding but it is nice to get off the trainer for a while.
On another note I will have to say that I am the Dance Dance Revolution King. I beat Holly the other day by a landslide victory I think I ended up winning by 3 million points or some craziness like that. Through all the laughter and disbelief that I was actually doing this I smoked her. Anyone who wants to just bring it. Soon I will be the DDR champion and smoke this guy and take his ear warm crown next the world wahahaha!
Tempo from Hell
I did a tempo workout the other day that was like ripping my legs off and beating myself over the head. I have been working with power this year and have seen some fast gains but every once in a while you hit a workout that is like pulling teeth. The difference with power is that if you feel bad or are tired you still put out the amount of power you are producing and that is it. Let me clarify, with heart rate if you feel bad then your heart rate is probably higher on its own. Probably because you are recovering from yesterdays workout or you are tired or sick etc etc. So with power it doesn't matter how you feel power is what it is.
So I had to do a tempo workout consisting of 2 20 min intervals normally when I do tempo my heart rate sit around 150-155. Not this time though. in order to put out the power I needed too my heart rate was rocketing up to an average of 177, and a max of 183 awful. To make things worse I was on the trainer, or the shrine of pain as I am now getting to know. This makes it ultimately harder to get yourself to push through this kind of pain. The only thing keeping me going was visions of the people I will be getting beaten by next year floating through my head and thinking that this interval was closing the gap to them. Silly huh.
It is amazing to see the pain that we put our selves through as bikers in order to get one step up on the other guy. I don't quite understand this complex but realize I have it. Its a great way to work through the stress of life and to see yourself in a positive way. I love the sense of accomplishment that come with being able to bust out an awful interval and the pride that comes with the results and rewards it reaps.
XC Skiing & Graduation
The order of my post should say something about what I am thinking about. I graduated college yesterday. Or rather I got to walk across the stage and not get my diploma. I still have finals this week and have a class to take over Winterim before I am done. This made graduating a little anti-climatic. But it was nice to be able to do, and my family enjoyed the ceremony.
Not all was lost at the ceremony though. I was happy to see some of my favorite teachers in attendance including Brian Lucas and Jeff Herriot. Two of the best teachers I have ever had. If anypne out their is going to the University of Wisconsin Whitewater the two teachers are great teachers and great people. Also their was some pretty funny stuff that happened. While we were marching in the girl in front of me was paying no attention at all and walked right into a pole and nocking it over then tripping on it lol. Then when we got in I noticed that they had posted the wrong date on the slide they were projecting on the wall I guess I was graduating on May 17 2005 hmm. I wish it was May... After that my parent took me and Holly out to dinner at a really nice restaraunt in Madison the Mariner. I had Mahi Mahi that they had flown in from the carribean that day it was Amazing, then I spoiled myself with dessert key lime pie ohh yeah. I also got some great gifts. Holly gave me a kit to shave my legs, I have never been a leg shaving advocate, but Holly says I will get made fun of racing Elite with hairy legs. I think its funny that a guy would get made fun of for not shaving their legs, bikers are really a strange breed. Bill got me a breast cancer awarness raqutball racket, it is a wonderful shade of lue and pink. :)
Today me, neil, and Bill went cross country skiing out at Kettle Morraine. We were planning on going on an easy loop first because none of us a cross country skiers. Well that plan failed we ended up going the wrong way and taking a fairly difficult trail. Needless to say crahes were often and hillarious. I think Bill had some of the best crashes and he got stuck coming up a few hills. But in his defense I was quite impressed he did so well because he has never skiied before.
I am now nervous about the Noquemanon cross country ski race. It took us 2 hours to do 5.5 miles 12 mile is going to take forever. Looks like I have some work to do.
More Attention
I have some web design work in progress but pimpin up the blog is on the todo list so hopefully soon you will all be able to see a much prettier blog. :) in the mean time check out my current web project WSUW 91.7 the Edge web site work in progress
Jobless
So I am graduating college this weekend yeah. But I remain jobless booo. I really wanted to get a job being offered by Saris as their web communications specialist, but they had been interviewing some lady since October and ended up hiring her. I wish I could have gotten on the ball with that job a bit earlier but what are you going to do. I twas kind of weird though because they kind of gave me an interview on the phone even though they were not planning on hiring me. Then I got the typical can we keep your resume on file just in case. (I can almost hear my resume hitting the trash tear.)
So it is back to the job hunt I really wonder what I will be doing in two or three months kind of weird.
For any one who like Alternative rock I have found this great radio station out of the Netherlands Zeilsteen
Finals Yuck
Its that time again finals. I really don't like finals and won't really miss them at all. To add to my dilema my sister and brother in-law are home from Texas this week with my Neice and Nephew. I love to play with my Nephew and he won't leave me alone. I wish I could just blow everyhting off and hang out with them but I have to graduate college sooner or later.
Speaking of which graduation ceremony is Saturday and my Marketing teahcer has decided to have our final on Sunday so much for celebrating I will spend my graduation day studying this makes me mad grrrr.
Not much biknig going on so i am just rambling about school.. Blah Blah...
Time to Post?
I haven't updated this for a while but I hope to start keeping a better blog in a few weeks. I have been counting down the days until graduation yeah and have realized that I hate school :) So I can't wait to get out.
This weekend was the last race of the year me and Holly made our way down to Chitown for the Illnois Cyclocross championships.. This was by far the coldest race I have ever done it was pretty trippy seeing people sledding while your racing your bike. Holly had a great race finishing 6th in the womens A's and I placed 2nd in the Mens C's let the sand bagging remarks fly.
I have been keeping myself pretty busy as of late with some freelance web design for the University's radio station and trying to learn how to cross country ski (more to come).
