Life rolls on and on

Well, it is Sunday morning and I am up having some coffee before work.  It has been a long week, but we are being rewarded with a trip up to Northstar tonight to do some demoing and downhilling tomorrow.  Giant has arranged for us to get free lift tickets and demo bikes for everyone in the shop to test out some of the Giant mountain bikes.  We will be leaving right after work this evening and taking the gang up there.  A1 is returning from fighting fires in Southern CA, and this will be a great chance to celebrate his return.  

The shop has been going crazy.  On Friday, it was my "day off" so I went in and put some Social D on my iPod and worked all day.  Since I was "not there", I tried my best to keep my head down in the work area.  I started the day with a list of about 25 jobs, and finished with only 3 jobs left undone.  It felt good to almost catch up.  Next week looks even busier.  We are having trouble getting bikes built to put out on the floor.  We end up just building bikes as customers come in requesting test rides.  

Claire, Jimmy Neutron, A1 and I went out for a bike ride on Thursday morning together.  We did the Roblar/Valley Ford loop.  Claire and I stopped in at Redwood Cafe for some breakfast afterwards.  Claire had the day off, so she did some shopping at Oliver's Market before heading back to Forestville.  After work, I rode home on my fixed, which was a good time.  I had quite a tailwind most of the way, so I had a hard time keeping up with the pedals.  

Yesterday morning I ran the Scenic loop and felt really good.  I tried to keep my heart rate up around 160 for the most part.  It ended up being 58 minutes which is a couple minutes faster than my usual time.  I had a couple of twinges in my calf when I really tried to stretch out my stride, so I am going to concentrate more on some stretching.