Outdoor Addict

I am sure plenty of people out there are doing this, but you have to give it to Craig, he has some dedication. Riding the trainer at 6:19am.   I can’t even wake up at the time.  Good for him.

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I don’t like to be bored.  Tonight when I got home from work, I had the worst case of boredom ever.  Since I am taking this week off from riding, I sat here in front of the tv playing a little play station.  That lasted for about 3 minutes so I did what every outdoor [...]

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I must say this weekend was interesting….and very tiring.  I left NH sometime around 7:45 pm with the car loaded with gear and the dog to make the 8+ hour drive home to the parents to get ready for the big PSU weekend.  Once we got there at abotu 4am, took a 4 hour nap, [...]

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Nothing too exciting here in Mike world..Didn’t ride, didn’t run, didn’t do anything except enter receipts into quicken for the 10 day vacation I was just on and then try to reconcile all the accounts.  Good times. I don’t know what is going on for this weekend but I certainly need to get out and [...]

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Instead of riding yesterday, we decided to watch the movie 24 solo.  I must say, it was one of the best mountain bike movies I have seen to date.  It followed Chris through some of his early season races and finished up with the 2006 24 Hour World Championship.  Great camera work, fantastic story, absolutely [...]

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Well, I am back to the home office from a great weekend at the US Nationals at Mt Snow.  Great weekend for racing.  Adam Creig took 2 national Championships, the Super D and Cross Country, and there were MANY folks on the the podium that rode Michelins.  It does make me feel good having all [...]

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Well, the surgery went well.  I am not in recovery mode.  So on Monday, they went in with some lasers, blasted up the 6mm stone and sucked out as much of it as they could.  Monday I came home from the hospital and watched the tour.  Tuesday, stayed at home and watched the tour.  Wednesday, [...]

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Monday morning, 10:45 am….doomsday for the kidney stone….and boy I am excited.  Nothing like a room full of doctors and nurse’s working around “little Mikey”.  I think that is the part I am the most nervous about.  “the boys” are going to be man handled and I don’t like the sound of that.  Something else, [...]

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Well, its official.  I am down and out when it comes to the bike riding for a little while.  Today I went to the doctor and he confirmed that I have a 6mm kidney stone in me.  Some may ask if that is big…to give you some reference, the tube that connects your kidney to [...]

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Something very interesting that has happened…..Today I am heading to the hospital for a CT scan. Seems as if I have a huge kidney stone. I had some blood in my pee pee (ok it looked like I wizzed coke) so I got it checked out. The urologist told me he looked at some x-rays [...]

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