Wheelie the Wonder Pig

Ride Like the Wind

We had an excellent ride on Monday night. This is the first time we’ve had some real wind resistance. The air is usually very calm and still here in the summer. You get a nice breeze while riding but no real wind resistance. Wow, I was feeling the drag on Monday. Maybe we were getting some residual bands from Tropical Storm Claudette. It hit Florida Monday morning.


I still need to buy a water cage and bottle for my new bike. I’ve been putting water in my mailbox but then that means a stop in my momentum. My DH uses a camelback but those things give me the skeeves.

Miles: 9.89

Time: 45 min

Avg Speed: 13.2mph

Animal Sightings: suicidal black cat (he needed a reflective vest)

Green Day

So many great bands are coming to our area this year. Mike and I just went to the Green Day concert. It was our first in awhile but we’re going to two more concerts before the year is over.

For Green Day we bought the cheap seats on the third level. I guess the show didn’t sell that well because the entire third level was closed. They moved us all to the 2nd level. Score!!

Green Day put on a great show…more specifically; Billie Joe Armstrong is a stage show rock star. BJA bounced all over the stage with the energy of a child on a sugar rush. He blasted the crowd with a super soaker water gun, customized blower that unraveled toilet paper and a t-shirt launcher. My 5 year old loves Green Day and very much wanted to see the show with us. He would have been right at home with all the other kids at the concert. BJA pulled 4 young kids on stage and plenty of YAs. Three fans got to sing Longview. One lucky guy got to play Jesus of Suburbia on guitar and perform a stage dive. I bet those were dreams come true.

Here are my youngsters putting on their own concert.

Ok, so they need some work and real instruments but they have fun trying!

Thursday's Ride

My two riding partners got their road bikes this week. Tonight was their inaugural ride. I must say...we were on fire! It was a great ride! It's so much easier to GO and GO FAST on a road bike after riding a mountain bike. No wipe outs to report. I do need to review the directions for my bike computer. I tried to clear out the last ride's numbers and ended up wiping the entire thing. D'OH!

Miles: 10.2

Time: 40 min

Avg speed: 15.3 mph

Animal sightings: big owl in the middle of the road, toads

Love of Legos

Trek is the Word

I love biking....have ever since I was a kid. I usually ride a mountain bike for recreation. I've never done any races. After running a couple 5k races, I've got the race bug. My hubby, cousin and I have talked about doing a sprint tri this fall. So recently I purchased a road bike.



Here's my new bike. Maybe I'll call it The Blue Blur. ;-)

It's such a smooth ride compared to my mountain bike. Tonight's ride around the neighborhood with 2 friends....

Miles: 9.7

Top Speed: 21 mph

Not quite a Blue Blur, but I'll work on it!

Life's A Beach