Viable Hiatus

Wow, its been over a year since I updated.  Kind of funny, one year ago I finally got around to climbing the biggest hill in Southern Illinois.  This year I climbed the biggest mountians in the United States by doing the bike tour of colorado even though it nearly killed me. While I wish I could say its a year later and I’ve gone from a overweight poser to a lean mean riding machine, I’m still fat.  I’m probably a bit better then I was last year though.  I climbed Williams Hill almost every week sometimes twice a week early this spring.  I’ve got over 2000 miles in, which is good for me at this point.  Really I’m probably about as good as a 280 pound rider can be. 

Wow, its been over a year since I updated.  Kind of funny, one year ago I finally got around to climbing the biggest hill in Southern Illinois.  This year I climbed the biggest mountians in the United States by doing the bike tour of colorado even though it nearly killed me. While I wish I could say its a year later and I’ve gone from a overweight poser to a lean mean riding machine, I’m still fat.  I’m probably a bit better then I was last year though.  I climbed Williams Hill almost every week sometimes twice a week early this spring.  I’ve got over 2000 miles in, which is good for me at this point.  Really I’m probably about as good as a 280 pound rider can be. 

First off I quit the Project 365 thing because I got bored of it.

Secondly I ride my bike alot.

 Today’s Ride.

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Anyway this was hard, about 3000 feet of climbing, and hot, I did great up the steepest climb until I cracked and could barely keep the bike upright.

Happy Mayday, here is a Chimney from the High Knob area. 

Yeah maybe Mookie could climb this but I sure the hell couldn’t. 

Sometimes you just gotta catch your breath.  From a ride on 4-29-07 Wow, in 111 more days it will be day 222, kinda like a milestone. 

Sometimes I forget how much I like black and white images.  This picture suffered from underexposure, but had a really perfectly exposed sky, so I made it b&w and used curves to get the foreground a little nicer. 

Wouldn’t it be nice if we were all held to the same high standards that Bush uses to determine when his underlings are doing a good job.

Because nothing says pride better then a huge trash dump in the middle of town.

Wow, ten years ago I looked, uhh, younger.