Sad Santa... Happy Elf !
Sunday 10/12/06:
Today was much nicer then yesterday weather-wise - the sun was for real this time! Still a bit of a cold wind blowing tho and I really noticed it when I headed off on the bike at 8am. It was behaving much better after its service and I actually enjoyed myself.
Kept the gears nice and easy most of the time, plenty of spinning. Rode a big loop round the main roads - don't mind at this hour on a Sunday when there is not too much traffic about, although I did still get a bit nervous when cars came too close...
About 3 yrs ago I hit some gravel on the road side, my front tyre skidded from under me and both the bike and I ended up sprawled out across one lane of a very busy road - fortunately nothing was coming along in that lane at the time and I limped home with nothing worse than a badly sprained thumb, a bloody knee and shin and a very scraped bike - it still has the scars!
While I only covered 20kms today, it is the longest I have ridden in a long time, so I was quite pleased with the effort. Certainly got the heart rate up a few times and of course the leg turn-over was good. I could certainly feel the legs burning a few times - cycling is so different from running!
Best of all, despite yesterdays experimental jog and todays ride - and walking around shopping most of today - my leg still feels really good. Not perfect by any means, but much better than it has been.
Part of todays shopping trip including getting Courtney's annual Santa photo done at our local mall. Tell me, do you think they've run out of jolly OLD men to play Santa?!? Up close he looked and sounded about 30 ! No wonder they had to attempt to cover most of his face up!
Today was much nicer then yesterday weather-wise - the sun was for real this time! Still a bit of a cold wind blowing tho and I really noticed it when I headed off on the bike at 8am. It was behaving much better after its service and I actually enjoyed myself.
Kept the gears nice and easy most of the time, plenty of spinning. Rode a big loop round the main roads - don't mind at this hour on a Sunday when there is not too much traffic about, although I did still get a bit nervous when cars came too close...
About 3 yrs ago I hit some gravel on the road side, my front tyre skidded from under me and both the bike and I ended up sprawled out across one lane of a very busy road - fortunately nothing was coming along in that lane at the time and I limped home with nothing worse than a badly sprained thumb, a bloody knee and shin and a very scraped bike - it still has the scars!
While I only covered 20kms today, it is the longest I have ridden in a long time, so I was quite pleased with the effort. Certainly got the heart rate up a few times and of course the leg turn-over was good. I could certainly feel the legs burning a few times - cycling is so different from running!
Best of all, despite yesterdays experimental jog and todays ride - and walking around shopping most of today - my leg still feels really good. Not perfect by any means, but much better than it has been.
Part of todays shopping trip including getting Courtney's annual Santa photo done at our local mall. Tell me, do you think they've run out of jolly OLD men to play Santa?!? Up close he looked and sounded about 30 ! No wonder they had to attempt to cover most of his face up!
Personally, I like this photo better! And it was free!
posted by Vicky @ 12/10/2006 09:37:00 pm
4 Comments:
At Sun Dec 10, 11:19:00 pm,
Em said…
Awww, they are both cute!
Well, maybe the elf is just a wee bit cuter :-)
At Mon Dec 11, 01:33:00 pm,
Spark Driver said…
I have don Santa before. I think I was 18 at the time. So very young.
At Mon Dec 11, 02:49:00 pm,
MorseyRuns said…
Definitely love the elf photo- you can only just tell there is a person peeking out from behind Santa's beard!
At Mon Dec 11, 08:50:00 pm,
Boston said…
Those photos are awesome. Just put those annual shots next to each other and you will be surprised how Courtney has grown up!
Cycling is for me a preterite tense. I should get on a buy a cycle, everyone seems to be cyclying to/from work nowadays.
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