Nothing beats a great ride with a great breakfast...

This morning started around 4:30 because we had planned an interval ride around 5 am. Mike, Billy and I were the brave ones to get the training done.  My usual riding partner Sergio missed out on what was to be one of the harder and essential training rides to get faster.  It usually happens when we do these harder rides his alarm does not work.  Every...Single...Time....  He has missed more hard training rides than Billy because of his sundial alarm.  Like usual, I always give a couple wake up text to them and they usually text back right away.  It was as expected, 4 wake up text later and I just gave up on him and headed out to the ride with Billy who lives around 30 miles away and made it on time.  Well today we did 5 time trial intervals, each interval I would go a little harder as to tire out the guys.  It worked and I immediately dropped Mike who says he was trying to stay in his zone of 170 beats per minute.  We were going 21 and my heart-rate was at 137 so I just went ahead and took off a little harder making him suck wheel the rest of the sets. Billy, trying to be a Serge, went side by side with me huffing and puffing only falling back for a minute then he would pull back up.  Well it was a good ride and we finished it off at Savory perks again.  From all that tourture to one of the most chill coffee shop there is.  

Billy talking about his "dropping" Mike

Cool old guys bikes. Mike will soon join the club. lol

Food choices - KFC...

Look at him... His devilish grin... His soul piercing stare...
He hides behind the illusion of health pretending that the grilled chicken is good. Don't let him deceive you. He will rob you of your dreams. He will inject you with fat. He will control you!!

But today is our day. We must unite and see that he can no longer shorten our lives. Today we must leave George Washington and his five buddies in our pocket. Today is our independence day!!!!

As soon as I finish this last chicken strip.....lol

Savory Perks....

I love a morning brew. This is the spot to chill and talk bikes other than Starbucks. We just finished a good 30 mile endurance ride and I'm blogging from my iPhone. Got myself a cool blogger app and seems to be working pretty good.



Serge tried to challenge my speed this morning, this is what happens when you mess with the beast lol. He is still trying to prove himself to Mike. Another successful day in his mind!

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Rest Day...

I sooooooooo needed this.  For the past week my legs have been feeling like Jello. The exact same feeling you get when you try running as fast as you can in the sand but you don't get anywhere.  That has been the way it has felt the past few rides.  Even though I know that I need some well deserved rest, and know that the reason my legs feel like concrete blocks is too much riding... I still want to get out there everyday and get some miles in.  Well since today is Monday, my planned rest day, I am going to just sit around and chill the whole day.  No cycling, no running, no games, no walking fast, nooooo nothing!

So since I am not riding today the next best thing to do is surf the web and look at bike stuff.  I already ordered three pairs of awesome Castelli cycling socks from Bonktown.  Really thinking about ordering the red white and black Castelli jersey to go along with it but I'm trying to resist the urge!  My finger is getting itchy! aahhh oh well...lol

Soup and Salad please!!...

Coffee and salads....salads and soups... Got to watch the weight this holiday season...so many happy people around me, and when I say happy I really mean FAT lol..... my cure is eat light, drink water and coffee, and do lots and lots of miles... well I got to keep reminding myself because for some reason there is an abundance of sweet cakes and platters everywhere. They are nice gifts but very dangerous. MUST RESIST!!!!

Think of all the riding you have to do to burn an empanada!!!

HCG Diet - 30 Day Weight Loss Program - Lose 30 Pounds Safely w/o Inject...

Hmmm, What do you think about this?

A new fad diet.... A way of making money off of naive people...

Well I think this is the dumbest thing ever and the most unhealthy way to lose weight. It's a crash diet times 10! So what this guy does is inject you with growth hormone for 30 days and you only eat 500 calories a day making you lose 30 lbs at the end of the month.

Do you see something wrong here? ummm first of all after years and years of people dieting and rebounding it is proven that in order to lose weight you have to train your mind to eat less, and exercise more in order to lose 2 lbs a week to be healthy and learn to keep the weight off.

Well this doctor says that he can make you lose weight.... sure your gonna lose weight! You don't need to pay anyone to lose weight if your just eating 500 calories a day!!! That in itself will make you shed the pounds. If anyone gets on this diet, I say there is a 99% chance that they will gain all the weight plus some in a few weeks.

Then the fact that you are putting a synthetic growth hormone that you body already makes can't be good!  Injecting yourself with hormones make your body think that you don't need that hormone as much as you needed before because it gets used to the extra hormone.  Now you just screwed your body when its not present anymore.  That can't be good either.  

The reason I'm talking about this is that there are people passing out flyers at the flea markets saying this the best thing since sliced bread. Feeding off the same people that believe that herbalife will change their lives. You don't need to spend money on these things if you are not gonna change the way you live for the rest of you life. In order to keep this weight off you have to make a commitment to continue being healthy forever. These miss a meal diets make lazy fat people lose weight, but the become lazy fatter people once they stop paying for the fad diet. The weight did not come on over night, so don't expect it to come off so fast.

GOOD OL' EXERCISE and HEALTHIER EATING IS ALL YOU NEED!

Stop ERIC!!! Just one day...

Yesterday was a day that I just said I want something good.  Took down an awesome sundae and swallowed a whole half pound burger. MMMMmmmmm....  Now I feel guilty that I'm gonna do more than 100 miles this weekend. lol

Bikes and Bucks...

Some of the best morning rides are the ones that finish with a tall Pikes Peak brew, sitting back on a nice cold leather chair while talking trash with the guys.   That is a great way to start the day.

Really McDonalds?....

Tried out the McRib for the first time ever.  I have been bombarded with so many commercials of people having orgasms just looking at the thing that I had to get one!  What a disappointment. All this sandwich is is just a salsbury steak from the high school cafeteria with two dry buns.  Two BBQ thumbs down!

Thanksgiving Blessings...

Loads and loads of turkeys

Success!!!  The annual turkey giveaway was great this year. We were able to give turkeys to more than 200 needy families who without our help would not had a turkey for Thanksgiving.  It's a great feeling.

TurBaconEpic Thanksgiving - Epic Meal Time

Just the perfect turkey for thanksgiving! Take it down with a nice diet coke!

The Twinkie diet, really..really?...

I would not go about it this way but it positively shows that counting calories WILL make you lose weight. Of course this doctor is not going about it the healthiest way but if you cut your caloric intake you will shed the pounds.  This was one of the main factors of my weight loss when I was just starting out.  Going from 319 down to 205 is not all about exercise, you have to eat well too!