Tired

Tiredness overcame me yesterday. It was a long day, and I got out of the office only after 7:30. While I had started on the path of doing an extra circle riding home on Monday, Tuesday saw me barely crossing the traffic light on Foothill to get home just in time to feast on a ton of chocolate. Interesting how work can work that way! Monday was intense, and Tuesday even worse – and as a consequence, my energy level sinks…

Still Tired from Yesterday

I managed to go all the way to the end of Canada and back. I started out late, thinking I would barely be able to make it to Woodside, but then I saw someone I vaguely recalled from work, got curious and followed him to the end of Canada. I think he’s a colleague, but I wouldn’t know how to tell. The ride was a Sunday ride, barely made it either way, although the averages are not as bad as they should have been. Continue reading

Finished Log

Finally I integrated the log generation with htmltree – now this is really a totally Marco tool, who else will want to do anything with a training log? I was thinking of changing my way and packaging up the special handlers – images and training – so that they can be added later as packages, instead of being bloat to the main app…

Mega Ride

Today I went with two collegues of mine for a long ride. I started from here, rode the hour or so to Woodside, and joined the two. From there we did an Old La Honda, then down to 84, left of Alpine, down on Page Mill, finally to Woodside and back. All in all four hours. The two guys are really wonderful to ride with. They may not think the same of me, but they need to get in a few good rides until they meet a bunch of their friends in France. Continue reading

The Fiercest Wind

Riding home was a pure bitch! The wind was very strong and wore me out on Manila. I got to the intersection totally exhausted…

Training Log

I spent again a few needless moments in the morning trying to make the best out of my precarious programming skills and dabbled on an alternative to srdplot. Not that I don’t like srdplot – it generates very pretty graphs that seem just to be made for public display. It’s just that it’s a C application, and it reads only .srd files. I added support for Windows .hrm files, but that still left me without the possibility of generating graphs for combined exercises. Continue reading

Commuting

It happened. I don’t know what it is, but all of a sudden the entire universe seems to have switched to bikes. I was riding home, and i must have crossed the path of at least five bikers! That’s a five-fold increase from my usual! Tomorrow, I will have to face the ultimate decision: am I going to join our guys from work in their quest for a morning ride? Or is it going to be too cold and damp and sad? Continue reading

Short Ride

Not much going on, today. Rete, my not-so-faithful webserver, choked to death last night after a (silly) attempt to apt-get upgrade – and I spent most of the morning trying to resuscitate. In the end, I installed RedHat 8.0 on the old disk, and got to do a minimal ride in the afternoon. Since life is treating me well, I decided to pamper myself (Q: isn’t that what you do when life is NOT treating you well? Continue reading

Training Log

Yes! I finally made it! Now you can see the updated training log on the site (just follow the home page). This one is mostly a variation on Dave Bailey’s log (his is of course much better, but so be it). The latest logs are from may, and the information is really not too interesting (aside from the embarrassing 20:31 best time on Old La Honda…). I guess I soon have to follow up with my favorite rides on the Peninsula and otherwise. Continue reading

Finally Back

Atlanta and Boston were well beyond expectation. As mentioned, I even found a really nice bike store in Atlanta, although I never got there in time to pick up a Georgia Tech jersey. I was surprised to see a lot of bikers around. I drove aimlessly into town on Northside Parkway, then Avenue, then Road, and from left and right the spandex was just flying. Careless they were, zipping into the intersection and looking left and right only after they were already a target. Continue reading