Winter training

My head’s a little sore after the Friday night’s winter training plan.

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Two of those were mine. Two. Eisphyres.

We’re lucky to have the rad friend back over to help us ride it off.

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Sufferefest!

Banana Pancakes

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I’m heading down to racing weight. With our spring trip only 49 days, 4 hours, 43 minutes and 12 seconds away, I’m feeling pretty motivated. Since I have a research background in the area, I’m a hater on most diet books, but I enjoyed Racing Weight and thought it was useful. I like the recipes, too. The banana pancake one is especially good. So good that I added it to the recipe collection. Now that I’ve made a stock of the dry ingredients in a mix, it takes me less than 7 minutes to go from switching on the griddle to pancake. They’re also great with jam. We’re always thinking about getting sweeter and faster!

Welcome, future employers, to my bicycle blog

Alex, of the most inspired blog I’ve been reading lately, is on a Geo-inspired drinking spree that’s lasted long enough to be a vision quest. According to #twitter. Here’s something Alex posted, that I like. I don’t think it’s necessary to swear, but I do think I’m trying to be funny. Or, sometimes, I’m trying to be honest. I’m kinda easy to find online, and what’s here and there is OK with me. So, if you are down with that, let’s make things metal.

Also: Happy Monday everyone. Here is a segment of Lost & Found 2007 which I made to introduce the most inspired coffee propaganda ever filmed. And I don’t mean the dethklok part.

Coffee transition L&F07 from velocorapture on Vimeo.

Robot Monday

Mashup Lost & Found 2007 from velocorapture on Vimeo.

The whim to make movies for my own enjoyment has lapsed a bit since the thirst was slaked by an avalanche of WORS videos. I’m hoping to free myself a bit and start up a WORS remixed video series for any and all who share the editing bug. And maybe to get around to editing some of my own fair-weather footage, for nostalgia’s sake. In the meantime, I spliced and uploaded the mashup from 2007’s Lost and Found DVD. The theme that year was ROBOTS. Or, maybe, that my job was sucking my soul out of my eyeballs. You can be the judge.

I had a poster of MLK at the Washington Monument up in my lab, with the note to self: “My heroes had the heart.” The theme for L&F 2008 and 2009 (as yet incomplete) is NATURE. I’ve been out in it, and am about to get back to it in the black freezing fog this MLK day. And you know how I mean that. Peace.

Big ups to my cousin for sharing these selections.