A High Strung Biker » Uncategorized http://www.bikermikey.com Another day in a high strung biker's liff (yes I did mean liff). Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:17:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Lazy sooty Saturday http://www.bikermikey.com/2009/07/11/227 http://www.bikermikey.com/2009/07/11/227#comments Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:07:58 +0000 Mikey http://www.bikermikey.com/?p=227

Sent from my Nokia N95 8GB

From the Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad.  This was a pretty cool ride.  No cell service so I had to wait until later to post the pic.

]]> http://www.bikermikey.com/2009/07/11/227/feed 0 What no training updates… http://www.bikermikey.com/2009/07/04/225 http://www.bikermikey.com/2009/07/04/225#comments Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:14:36 +0000 Mikey http://www.bikermikey.com/?p=225 Well I have not updated on my training, because I have not been able to.  I was in a car accident, not serious, at the end of March.  My back is a mess and keeping me off the bike still at this point.  This is why people with anger problems should be forced to drive micro cars.

If anyone wants their Courage Classic donations back, I’ll make good on them.  I was hoping that I could get back on the bike by the beginning of July but missed that mark.  Feel free to still donate even if I don’t ride, it’s a great cause.

This will be the first CC I missed since I started doing the ride in 1997.  So far only missing 2001 which didn’t count due to being canceled by forest fires.

]]> http://www.bikermikey.com/2009/07/04/225/feed 1 Courage Classic day three http://www.bikermikey.com/2008/08/05/147 http://www.bikermikey.com/2008/08/05/147#comments Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:11:21 +0000 Mikey http://www.bikermikey.com/?p=147 The day started with a great breakfast in Leavenworth, and they started serving early. I cannot thank them enough for the early breakfast.

I did really well on the last day, very very slow but still really well. One thing to keep in mind I am very heavy, so going uphill can take lots of power, this translates to calories. I ran out of them, I did not have enough energy bars this day. I accepted the kind offer of one from a woman that I talked with in line for dinner at Cle Elum the first day. So I was really slow going up the hills to conserve my reserves. Downhill on the other hand is another matter, there I shine.

I walked up the last climb since my right foot was bothering me. My right foot started to hurt the night before, not during the ride but a while afterwards.  Really odd.  It was quite hot and only a little chilly in the early morning.  The RSC’s (Rider Service Centers) seemed to get hit pretty hard, many good things were running low.  I took a while to get a massage, a bit of a mistake time wise.

Lunch consisted of tasty baked potatoes and lots of stuff to go on them and chili.  From there a blazing descent followed by a fast meander through the Iron Goat Trail Interpretive Site and then another fast descent.  WHOO HOO!!!

The finish was down a gravel road and I was on the last bus heading out.  This meant that we had to wait for the last person to finish and shower before we could leave…  But then we still didn’t leave.  It turned out those lovely folks at a place named like what we were shorted us a truck.  We found out that not only did they short us a truck but they had apparently rented out some or all of the “reserved” trucks. (This had happened to a friend with this company before too) nice.  After a protracted wait for the first bike transport truck to come back we wew on our way.

Over all it was a “LEGENDARY!!!” weekend.

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Whoo hoo!!!

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Around 3:05

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Yummy baked potato.

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It’s 12:55 and it is really hot.

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