Plans go awry

I had plans to ride into work once again as Jenn had her strength training class at Endorphin again. Threats from the local weathermen made my decision to sleep in rather than ride pretty easy. When I woke up you could imagine my level of annoyed-ness as the sky was clear and the sun was out. All was good though as it didn't take long into the day before the sky turned cloudy and then Mother Nature didn't to open up on us once again.

With it raining, I spent the afternoon watching the Food Network. Seems that is my fall back this time of year when the weather turns nasty or I get too lazy to ride in the cold. So with an afternoon full of inspiration Jenn and I collaborated on dinner. I used the cast iron grill pan to do up some chicken breasts while she whipped up a batch of her homemade mac-n-cheese! Here are some pictures to get you thinking about dinner at 8 o'clock this morning ;-)

Almost looking too good to cover in sauce...

But when you are covering it with 100% pure Idaho love, now that is a different story. Thanks Becky for bringing so many bottles home last time. The mac-n-cheese was to die for. And is what is for lunch today!

I have a couple of rides planned for the next couple of days. Hell I may even ride an unprecedented four days in a row. But lets not get too ahead of ourselves.

Goo-i-ness

It has been a couple of weeks since my last update which is sad because I had some really good rides two weeks ago with Jenn and Nate. Then last week, I did nothing but hone my skill of being undisciplined. It was one reason after another of why I didn't want to ride. Blaaahhh! I didn't waste the time completely though. As many of you know, I have always eaten my weight and possibly more in food every day. But in the past, I have always relied on someone else to do the cooking for me. Not so anymore! I have discovered in the last couple of months, I love to cook. Especially grill!

On Sunday evening, I threw this blob of gooiness onto the grill. Somehow it magically turned into this delicious creation.

Monday I decided that instead of going back to bed after Jenn left at zero-dark-thirty for her weekly swim training with Endorphin Fitness, I would just get up and gather my stuff and ride into work. So I loaded up the weighted pack...

and then the ride can be summarized easily. First mile, "Oh this won't be bad, my legs feel ok." Second mile, "Nevermind this is going to suck, my legs now feel like the goo on the grill." At about mile 6 or 7, my legs started warming up and feeling better. For there on out I was just a big rolling pile of high-vis lazy.

Now if you will excuse me, I have to go stuff my face before work.