new fitness scale...

i had planned on buying a PowerTap this year... but all them bills got in the way. so here is my new method of determening fitness: tanlines



for a pale dude like myself, i think im doing ok. :)
i cant believe how close 'cross is. first race is only 3 weeks away. thats crazy.

last night, i did threshold intervals again. and damn was it hot. 3x15mins. i felt really good. consistantly strong for all three efforts. good sign. but i was dying on the way home... it was soo stinking hot. once i got home, i just crashed. i drank sooo much, and probably ate too much as well. oh well.

so i started a new route to get around "Death Road"...otherwise known as Brown Ave. this new loop adds about 20mins, but its a leasurly ride around the Manchester-Boston Airport. so im cresting this hill, when a car passes me.. i hear another one coming up, and move over a tad, but there is no shoulder, so move as much as a can... then the 'vehicle' is getting louder... much louder. this sounds like a semi coming up behind me. have you ever had this fear that you were going to get hit? yeah, thats what i had. this thing was sooo stinking loud, i thought it had to have been the worlds biggest truck, and that it was going to run me over and not even give it a second thought.

i am almost at the point of impact, and i kinda brace myself for what im believing to be my last 2 seconds on a bicycle... when all of the sudden a plane flys right over my head! i kinda forgot that i had a landing strip about 500' in front of me... there was no giant truck. only a plane coming in for a landing. damn, that was close.