Web updates and HTML email for CD+M Lighting Design. Website updates for Porta Fortuna. Long hours trying to get several projects out the door. Hopeing to launch Roth Distributing, Mita Residential and Atkins Park soon. Atkins Park’s 3rd location just opened on Monday.
Endurance miles tonight. Heart rate between 87 and 159. PE 5 out of 10. Base miles in the garage… yay.
Which means we get 2 days of work done in 3 hours. Hit Los Hermanos today for luch after Aidan’s nap instead of our usual friday visit. Needed some tacos.
This is my recovery week. Nice and slow, under 122 avg heart rate.
The gym was nice and slow this morning. It’s the best time to go.
Ryan joined Dana, Matthew and I for the ride this morning. Much stronger today. Big group, maybe 80+ people. I got a flat with about 15 miles to go. Thought I could catch back up with the group. Managed to hold 22 to 26 mph for 8 miles or so but no sign of them and had to slow down just a bit. I pulled a group of dropped riders back the rest of the way.
Got my butt handed to me this morning. I met Dana, Bob and Sue at the start of the ride. This, I think, is the fastest group ride in town and I have yet to finish with the group. Both times now I’ve been dropped at the half way point. After a few miles of rolling hills and the long climb at the mid point I hit the red zone and… the group is gone. Got a little lost around the Mountain Crest Mall. Had to stop and ask for directions. Something to still work towards.
REI carries the 3 trainers I’ve been looking to purchase, or receive as a gift for the holidays. The Blackburn (1up re-branded), Cycleops fluid 2 and the Kenetics fluid trainer. I have to say, riding them all back to back, the Blackburn was better by far. The most quiet and best road simulation. It did have more plastic pieces but I think it wins by far. The Cycleops seems to have a flat spot in it like the cylinder was out of round or something. The Kenetics was fine, just a little noisier than the others. The legs of the Blackburn were too low when I first got on and managed to burn a hole in the carpet… dam funny. The smell of torched carpet lingered for a little while. Oh, they also had the Kenetics one the rocked from side to side when you stand up. The put elastomers in the joint so it was like a skateboard truck… just bouncy… terrible.
Vanessa joined us for Thanksgiving. Deep fried a turkey… F’in awesome, cooked in 35 minutes. Aidan entertained us by cuting a rug to 80’s music.
Vanessa has some pics up on her site.
Leslie killed it this morning beating her last time by 25 minutes! She had a great race. Vanessa picked her up this morning at 5:45 am for the start while Aidan and I met them at the finish.
F650 got new HTML email and flash portal project for Marist School. We also received site updates for One Scottsdale and H2 Eco Design. Two great clients of ours.
We’re about to do some construction on the house including some water proofing. We have to move our 2 HVAC units and thought it might be the time to replace them at the same time. I’m thinking this just might be the first and last house we own. Because, if we spend this kind of money on it, we may have live here forever to break even.
Today was supposed to be Aidan’s 4th tumbling class. It’s for kids to run, climb, jump and fall on gymnastics equipment. The class was canceled but never told us, so… the door was open. We went in. The facility is fantastic. A gigantic gym with trampolines, rings, bars, a hundred different size mats AND a pit full of foam. Aidan didn’t do any flips into it, but he did slide into it and crawl around.
Leslie is going to spin class tomorrow night with the tri geeks (sorry, peeps) so I moved up my ride day. Probably better to resistance train and ride on the same day anyway. My training plan has me doing Fast Pedal excersices to work on pedal stroke technique and change the cadence up. 2 minutes on, 3 recovery with 5 sets.
Hit the gym this morning. Dana was on her way out. Looked like somebody took a tire iron to her, all cut up and brused. Maybe we pushed her a little too hard on the ride Saturday… maybe. However, she did earn braging rights. It’s turkey week, lots of work to due but I’m only working today and tomorrow. I need a work break. Leslie is running the Atlanta half marathon on Thursday. I’m excited for her. She’s been training for it. Aidan and I will be waiting for her (in the cold) at the finish.
We took Aidan today, just because I wanted to see that look of amazement on his face seeing those kinds of things for the first time. He had a great time watching the kids and the shows. He actually ate the pizza… for the first time. Leslie is going to watch the final race of Nascar today for the Nextel Cup. She’ll be screeming go Jimmy for the rest of the day.
Aidan is getting to be a big boy. He discovered Lo Mein noodles and cream corn this week. He’s also getting pretty good with a spoon. If only we could get him to eat a little more consistently. You never know what to expect being a dad… but he’s frigen awesome.
Hit the trail today with Joe Reger, Dana and Matthew. Matt got lost… to the trail he’s been to 50 times. It was Dana’s firt mountain bike ride. The LBS had test bikes so they just happened to have a $3000 Secialized women specific bike just her size. Of course she killed it. She also marked the trail every half mile with a wipe out but… she was a trooper and kept at it. Reger has some photos posted. Joe did his share of the work by fliping in the warm up area before the ride. Fun ride… picked up the pace on the 3rd lap. Need to do that a little more often.
