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12 mile. I split it into 2 sections so I could see how my speed on the way back compared to my speed on the way out. Turns out it was pretty much the same.

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Rode 32 miles today. Man, was it hot. I went through 100 oz of liquid during the ride. MotionX GPS crashed again during the ride so I’m missing about 5 miles of data for the ride. Last 5 miles were slow. My legs are shot.

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I own three bicycles. They’re all in good shape because I never use them. I have a mountain bike (that never ever gets used), a fast road bike and a hybrid bike. Lately I’ve been riding the hybrid because it’s much more comfortable than the street bike. I haven’t ridden the mountain bike in a long time because I haven’t ridden off-road.

In any case I wanted to compare riding the road bike with the hybrid. So I rode the road 5 miles up to the top of Clark’s Gap. Man, is the road bike uncomfortable. It’s faster because of the lower rolling resistance but damn it hurts my butt and my feet a lot to ride the road bike. I’m hoping that once I’ve dropped 50 lbs or so that the road bike won’t be such a pain to ride.

Here’s the road bike:

Here’s the hybird:

Took the road bike up to Clark’s Gap today. Rode back down Dry Mill Road.

Top of Clark’s Gap:

Dry Mill Road:

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I’ve been trying to figure out what was going on with the arrest of the black Harvard professor in his home last week. I’ve read a couple of news stories about this, listened to some podcasts and listened to an interview with the police officer who arrested the professor.  Just about everyone is trying to make this about race but I don’t think that’s the problem here. Since I don’t know exactly what happen, I’ve distilled it down to a few possible scenarios:

1. Professor locks himself out of his house, breaks into his house, neighbors call the cops, cops show up, professor is an asshole to the cop so the cop arrests him for disorderly conduct. (contempt of cop).

2. Professor locks himself out of his house, breaks into his house, neighbors call the cops, cops show up, professor is a nice guy, cop arrests him because the cop hates black people.

3. Professor locks himself out of his house, breaks into his house, neighbors call the cops, cops show up, professor needs a story for his new book so he goads the cop into arresting him.

In all three scenarios, the policeman is wrong. It’s not a crime to be an asshole in your own home. It’s not a crime to be black. The professor might have been guilty of bad judgment if he were being belligerent to the cop but that’s no reason to be arrested. Obviously the professor did nothing wrong, they’ve dropped the charges.

After listening to the interview with the police officer involved, the cop sounds like a good guy and a good cop generally. Unfortunately the police have the power to arrest you because they don’t like you with a bullshit charge of disorderly conduct or obstruction of justice. The charges are usually dropped (because they’re bullshit; just like in this case).  Of course the cop refuses to apologize because most cops think people should be arrested when they don’t act in a subservient manner towards the police.  The lesson to take away from this is to not be a dick to a cop. Even if they’re wrong the best case scenario is that you spend half a day in jail until they decide to drop the charges against you. The cop’s happy- he gets his daily authority boner by throwing you in jail.

MotionX has crashed on me a couple of times. One of those times was today so  I don’t have data for the first half of the ride. I may have to find some new software. This is getting old.

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Well it’s been a week since my last diet post. I’m down 5 lbs in a week with only one day of any real exercise. (an 18 mile bicycle ride) The Lost It! app for the iPhone is awesome. Right now it has determined that I need to eat less than 2160 calories per day in order to lose 2 lbs per week. Eating 2160 calories is like not being on a diet at all. ( Of course this number will have to go down as I lose more weight). It’s 5pm and I’ve eaten 720 calories today and I’m not hungry at all. I’ve eaten three small meals and had some coffee.

Alright then, I’m a week in and still doing well. Keeping my fingers crossed.