Geek Habitat

Whimper after too long out of the saddle of my road bike?

I am sore, but I am so glad I got off my fat arse and rode with Justin and brother-in-law, David, today.

GPS track, and my heartrate & cadence data for today’s ride

According to MotionBased.com, where I log all my outdoor rides, it has been two MONTHS since my last ride–how in the hell did that happen? I did some indoor training rides since then, but they don’t show up on MotionBased.com to help my “motivation through publication” since their site is a little crippled in that it won’t log rides that lack a GPS track, even if they have cadence (and thus speed + distance) and heart rate data.

Justin and I tent camped a lot when we were dating as well as the first several years of our marriage, before we got busy. Before Sara was born, we resolved that Sara would grow up exposed to camping and the outdoors from the start. So we’ve gradually been easing her into camping, first a cabin “camping” trip to Buescher State Park near Austin, and this weekend, her first tent camping trip to Guadalupe River State Park.

WKRP in Cincinatti

Reposted from my geekgal.vox.com blog, in response to their Question of the Day (QotD); this one’s a little heavy, but hey, my blogging can’t be all YouTube and TheOnion –

If you had one month to live, what five things would you do?
Suggested by Acerebel.

It’s been awhile since I’ve been on the bike, either outdoors (see MotionBased log) or indoors (my last bike trainer ride was on Feb. 28–sigh.)

I wanted to make this at least 10 miles but it’d been too long off the bike and the kiddo had passed out in an uncomfortable position in her bouncer, so I bailed off the trainer at 8.15 miles. The only goal I did achieve was biking at least 20 minutes to get some cardio benefit.

I am really glad I wasn’t on this Lufthansa Airlines flight which attempted to land in extremely high crosswinds. Note: the did make a successful landing on their second (”go ’round”) landing attempt.  Further, for non-pilots, the yaw back and forth and the aircraft’s odd sideways, not lined up with center line, approach to touchdown on the runway *is* proper (indeed the only safe) procedure for landing in crosswinds–it’s call “crabbing”, since it looks sort of like how a crab runs sideways in relation to where it’s head it facing. Even a heavy crosswind landing in a Cessna isn’t fun… I love flying with Justin but my least favorite approach and landings are when we are faced with strong, especially gusty (wind’s there one moment and suddenly gone the next, etc.) crosswinds.  It’s like riding a bucking bronco, and I have no idea how hair-raising it is to land, but judging by Justin’s look of complete concentration, it’s no fun.