today was a slow day at work. I got to unpack and setup six multifunction dell printer/scanner thingies… Dell 1600n’s i believe. Kinda a cool unit actually. ~300 for a laser printer/fax/scanner with built in Ethernet. After I did that i just got to work on stuff at the office for the rest of the day. After work I went on my bike ride right away. I got through the vasona region real quick as usual, but then i ran into my friend Nick Baggarly, who heads up a non-profit organization called ‘drive around the world’. He just recently got back from his trip, and as I go on my bike ride every day I see his land rovers which have just returned. Today he happened to be outside working on them so i had a nice time talking with him for a bit. Check out his website linked above, his travels are for a good cause, to raise money for the Parkinson’s institute.

After talking for a bit with Nick, I continued on my bike ride to the top of St. Joseph’s Hill. As I approached about the 75% marker someone started to catch up with me, and i decided that I was just being too lazy for that to happen, so I picked up the pace and beat him to the top of the hill, just to be smashed on speed right before the top by some guy on a single speed. Ive decided that people shouldn’t be able to pass me going up the hill, unless they are very seasoned at mountain biking, OR they have a single speed bike. The single speed bikes seem to pass me all the time, and there is nothing i can seem to do to keep up with them. Part of the reason I’m so sore now is because I did push ups and other similar types of exercises at the top of the hill. I feel like I just had the first day of crew practice at the beginning of the season when they just kick your ass to get in shape. I guess its a good feeling. The other impressive thing about my ride today was the decent back down to LG. I went really fast. The guy on the single speed with no suspension went faster. I couldn’t believe it.