Iditarod

If you don't know this already, the Iditarod is going on right now. This race is for the craziest of the crazies. If you don't follow her blog, well you should. She's actually been doing very well. She's been the first female rider at the check points, and at mile 165 she still was.

What's even crazier are the people going all the way to Nome at 1100 miles.

You can check out the latest new here and here

Go luck Jill! Unfortunately, it looks like her boyfriend Geoff had to scratch due to an injury.

Icy Roads

Okay, so we got less than an 1" of snow last night and since it was warm yesterday and temps dropped below freezing last night, the roads turned into ice....just a complete sheet of ice.

The plow trucks were out but just plowing the barely there snow....why can't they throw down some sand so there's just a wee bit of traction on the roads? Is there a shortage of sand out there?

-Kim

The wuss is in the house

What can I say, I forgot how to ride today. We rode Devil's Backbone today, it was an amazing day in the 60's and the trail was dry but I rode horribly. We got the singles out with our friend Aaron and I attempted to follow them. I fell a bunch and got matching holes in my knee's.


At least Dan and Aaron had a better day.




A couple rare moments I was actually on my bike

Oh what a feeling!

To be back on the bike! My office is now cluttered with my bike and all my gear again. I had a couple restless hours last night contemplating my return to commuting and all the horrible things that could happen but when I woke up nothing seemed as horrible as it did last night. Unfortunately the CX bike is going to be out of commission for a while but I'm really liking the steel flat bar Bianchi road bike.

The morning commute even dried up my drippy nose....nothing like a cool crisp morning to get all the gunk out of your nose and chest.

-Kim

Happens to the best of us

I thought I'd start commuting again this week but I woke up sick on Sunday morning and stayed home from work yesterday. Now I'm at work in a funk.....

But I was greated by this cute little guy this morning. He was snoozing in the sun by our office front door.



-Kim

Slow week

Dan jinxed himself over the weekend...he made the comment that he hasn't been sick in over a year and guess what....he's home sick. HA! Probably got it while hanging out with me in the hospital on Friday. Good timing since the shop he works at is remodeling the store and there isn't too much to do. The Boulder store is turning into a fancy Trek concept store.

I hate emergency rooms, it's interesting listening to all the people but I got stuck next to a crazy homeless women who couldn't talk. All she did was make strange inhuman sounding outbursts and cry. She smelled really really bad also. I was also next to some girl who I think impaled her face on something skiing and needed surgery later that evening. She was talking and not bloody but I didn't get a real good look, can't be rude and gawk at the people as you're being wheeled by in your bed. Another guy had a broken foot and it's been broken since Thanksgiving....he complained to the nurse that he had to work and couldn't be off his foot and that he just needed drugs for the pain. She told him that she can't give him any drugs but could give him a prescription but he said he couldn't afford it right now. He asked again if she could hook him up and she just said sorry, we aren't drug dealers :) I thought that was pretty funny! She also told him that his bones would not heal together if he didn't stay off his feet....that prompted a big argument for about a half an hour until they decided to just give up and discharge him.

Hopefully next week the shoulder will be good enough to start riding in again. It's been too sensitive to wear my backpack. Dan converted the SS commuter into a geared bike so I can ride that while the CX is out of commission. I didn't want to struggle with shoulder pain on the SS so just decided to put gears on it. Luckily I can run without too much pain, which I've been doing all week at lunch. The only things that hurt doing really bad, like puke hurt bad...is lacing up my shoes and putting my sports bra on.

-Kim

Emotions

It's funny how getting hit by a car doesn't scare me to be on the roads again riding my bike....it just depresses me. It's sad how caught up people get in their own lives and the things they have to do become more important than the safety of others.

Slow down and be considerate to others. Not that hard of a thing to do.

-Kim

Oops I did it again

I got hit again yesterday afternoon. Dan met me at work and we were going on a short luch ride (I was going to the post office and bank and he was just tagging along). We had just rode away from the post office that's right down the street from where I work and were on our way to the bike path off of Foothills and Walnut when a car coming out of a parking lot nailed me, I actually nailed him. Dan and I saw the car cruising out of the parking lot and I recall Dan saying "that dude's not gonna stop". There was nothing I could do....I tried to stop but couldn't in time and I ended up colliding with the car, my helmut hit the driver's side A pillar, my rear tire came up off the ground and it felt like I was going to go up and over the car but luckily I didn't, just came smashing down on my right shoulder. Luckily he didn't hit me head on or things would have been a lot worse! I remember the feeling and I remember the sound but I didn't feel anything....just like before. It was all pretty surreal and it all seemed to play out in slow motion.

All the guy could say was "OMG, I'm so sorry". Dan came rushing over and asked if I was okay, he told me I hit the car really hard. I sat on the ground for a couple seconds and all I could say to the driver was "you can't f'ing look both ways you idiot". I got up, picked my bike up, the left brake level was turned in and my front tire was completly locked up. I had some severe shoulder pain but there wasn't a lump so it wasn't dislocated (thank god!). We sat there for several minutes with the guy apologizing and telling us if we need anything he'll pay for it, Dan said the bike is f&*cked and I told him that we'd better call the cops, so the guy called the cops. No more than a minute later we hear sirens. The cops showed up first, then the fire truck then the ambulance. I was mortified! People were gathering and some passerby's that work in my building stopped and asked if I was okay. After being checked out by the firemen, then by the ambulance guys....they all talked me into taking a ride with them to the hospital just to get checked out. Dan stayed back to make sure everything was taken care of with the police and got my bike to work to stash for the rest of the day.

Luckily, nothing is broken. Just stiff and sore, I have movement but it hurts really bad. My helmut is okay and none of my clothes got torn. The bike took most of the hit. Apparently the guy who hit me was acutally the business owner, he hit me right outside his shop (bet he got razzed pretty bad by his employee's). The cops told Dan that he's a good guy and has a reputable car repairshop and a lot of the officers bring their cars to him to fix....the cop actually knew the guy. Unfortunately the shop owner was driving one of his customer's cars....I would have loved to hear the phone conversation between him and the car owner! Luckily, the guy got a ticket for failure to yield, so I can at least prove that we was cited and was a fault. He was able to get the vehicle's insurance and he also provided the cop with his business insurance. Hopefully everything will go smoothly......

Dan's going to go through the bike over the weekend and we'll come up with a list of what's wrong.

Luckily, the guy who hit me was more than cooperative and I knew he felt awful, I actually saw him shaking. Hopefully he'll be a little more careful coming out of his parking lot and hopefully everyone that saw what happened and the aftermath of what happened will be a little more careful as well.

I'm lucky nothing serious happened to me....don't know how many more times I can get hit before I get seriously hurt....not going to think about that. I'm also lucky that Dan was there and I had a witness and he was able to take care off all the police stuff and made sure everything was in order before he left.

Unfortunately, I won't be able to ride the CX bike for a little while. We want to make sure the insurance company has all the details before we actually fix it. Don't know if I'll be able to ride the ss in since my shoulder is so wrenched....but we'll see.

-Kim

FY IPA

F'ing Yeah IPA from here is the bomb! Although I kinda hate going to the Southern Sun on a Thursday or Friday evening because I know we'll be waiting over an hour for a table....especially a table for 7. But I know that if you wait long enough, it never fails, they bring you free stuff. Usually it's an appetizer, like nachos but last night we got a free pitcher of beer!

Delightful!

Getting up before the crack of dawn to ride in with a pretty steady headwind....not so delightful.

-Kim

If you can't afford a "REAL" rock crawler

SoCal RC Rock Crawlers - Scale Meet @ Lake Balboa 1-28-07

Stuffed Pig

That's what I feel like today after the Superbowl party we went to last night. It was at our friends Joey & Matt's place up in the foothills just off of Iris, they rent a mansion in the hills with 2 other poeple. Absolutely amazing house with more amazing views. We drank, ate and drank and ate some more....now I'm paying for it. Yuck!

Sorry no pics of their place...I didn't bring the camera.

I am glad the Giants won! Got to be one of the biggest upsets in NFL history! Way to go Eli!

-Kim

OMG! I'm dizzy!

We went to see Cloverfield last night and I heard tales of people getting sick and dizzy in the movie theater because of the way it was shot. I thought I got used to it after a while but afterwards, I did have a slight headache but I passed that off because we didn't eat dinner before the movie and it was around 10pm when we got out.

I woke up this morning spinning! I couldn't get my bearings and I felt like I had the drunk spins! I got up and walked around and I was still a little dizzy and my eyes feel strained.

Weird.

Good movie though, very intense. And seeing a movie on a weeknight instead of the weekend is the best way to see a movie, no one is there!

-Kim