My Poor, Neglected Superfly

My bad ass carbon fiber Gary Fisher Superfly is just sitting in my garage doing nothing. Actually, I guess that's not entirely true. Over the past couple months it's been collecting samples for it's research on "Particles of matter regarded as the result of disintegration", more commonly known as "dust". Not only is is covered in dust but, I had to pillage the saddle for use on my commuter. So there it sits covered in mud and dust with a lone seat post protruding from it's sleek "nude carbon" frame. What's that? Mud? Did I forget to mention that it's still covered in mud from my last outing at Boyette? Yeah, It is. I know, I'm a horrible bike owner.

I'm hoping to get out for a short ride at Boyette soon. "Hoping" being the key word. I have to run 27 miles this weekend. 9 on Friday and 18 on Saturday. That leaves Sunday open. Providing I can still walk on Sunday I'm going to take the Superfly in all it's "nude carbon" glory out for a spin.

Yes, I'll be re-installing the saddle before I go.

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Memories Of Cold Weather Commuting

I'm not talking about Florida cold weather commuting either. The memories I'm referring to consist of sub freezing temps and lots of snow. I first started commuting by bike while attending college in Spokane, Wa. Although I don't have any images of my actual commute it looked a little something like this.

And here was my route. Oh how I miss commuting in the snow.

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Bike Commuting On Hold

I’m reluctantly putting my bike commuting on hold. I was just starting to get into a good routine and really starting to enjoy it but, I don’t want to jeopardize my running. With the Goofy race less than two months away and my training program pushing my legs to their limits every weekend I’m afraid that I’d be asking too much of them with an additional 24 mile a day bike commute. Besides, I think my wife would kill me if I was unable to run with her for her first Marathon.

Even though I’m planning on running the Gasparilla marathon in February I should be able to resume my commuting after the Goofy race. So why would I be able to commute while training for the Gasparilla when I can’t do it while training for the Goffy? The Goofy race consists running a total of 39.3 miles in a two day period, a half marathon followed by a full marathon the very next day. The Gasparill is just a marathon, that’s it. 26.2 miles and I’m done. This means I’ll only be doing 1 training run on the weekends so my legs won’t be trashed come Monday morning.

Whish us luck as I try to complete my first Goofy race and Theresa completes her first marathon!

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Random Commute Pics

Here are a few photos of my commute home tonight. I had taken a lot more but for some damn reason my phone decided it was only going to keep these two. I'll post some more later.




Some canal on my way home


Where did the bike lane go?

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My Commute Route

I thought I'd share my commute route.

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