Yet another wonderful day - a different kind of wonderful, in pure productivity.

Got up relatively early and did a few things around the house and went out, had a very short haircut (summer doo) - then headed out to look at 4 different apartments. Found one I liked, but i cannot see the actual unit until tomorrow after the people vacate it.

The temperature got really hot and humid today - up to 95 degrees. The kind of day where you put the AC on in your car on the highest setting and it never seems to cool down.

Went out to Leesburg and did a Hillsborough training ride. 54 miles in all. I was soaked with sweat when I returned, even my socks.

Came home and mowed the lawn - another great excersize. Finished up, and had a nice hot shower followed by a nice cold beer. Ahh...Summer......

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I had a great day today :)

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Uhhhhg. I am whipped. Physically exhausted. Will get to why in less than in a half a minute after I say that work was just ad nauseum and a tease for me to beleager the lack of how such a nice day it was out.

Ok, done.

After work, I biked to Herndon to meet up with my cycling club - there were hordes...droves....ganders...flocks of cyclists ready to eat up the weather. Was quite a scene. Met up with my buddies and they talked me into doing an A ride - and then I stupidly decided to do it.

Lets just say - that was the fastest 46 miles I've ever biked and holy crap....I was tuckered out. I felt like I was in a full on sprint the last 30 miles. But I wasn't dropped - I finished with them. Felt great - just the pain is bittersweet.

Came home, had dinner and crap...it's almost 11pm. Where does the time go? Tomorrow night I'm skipping my training ride so I can be couth (not smelly cycling boi) and do a dinner date thing.

I have missed only 4 days of cycling training this year (because of snow/ice and one committment) - this will be number 5. Not bad for 6 months. I'll make up for it over the weekend, heh heh.

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This week has been really busy - all sorts of catch up at work and such following my almost full vacation week. I'm still behind on everything...while trying to maintain what I do daily.

Work was busy - just one drama after another, and too much to manage, but I was able to sustain it while maintaining discreet composure of not pulling my hair out.

THe weather was really odd today - got real hot in the afternoon, then had a quick thunderstorm and then dried up, became ultra-humid then hot again. By the time I finished up work, it was threatening to storm - dark bruised sky - but no breeze, almost tornado weather...strange stillness...hair on arms raised, electricity in the air...but no lightning/thunder yet.

I went on a really long 44 miler and missed the rain - it was a pleasant ride, hardly anyone out except for a few buds I knew on the way back...sorta pacelined. It started to spit and the wind picked up. But I finished before it started to pour (only for about 10 minutes).

Came home and had a quick dinner and leafing thru ads for apartments...have 4 appontments on Saturday - will be a busy day. If I see something I like...I will go ahead and just apply/sign for a lease. I want to move this next month no matter what.

That's a pic of Christine Thorburn - she's a total hotty :)

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Early ass morning - long all day offsite meeting. Felt like a wallflower. It was a ginormous waste of time - but face time is important.

Came back to office, worked for another hour then suited up - and took off on a really pleasant training ride, 44 miles total. Horrible accident between a few cyclists in Herndon - there was a huge crowd and a cyclist (one of the women on the University of Maryland cycling team) was severly hurt and laying in the middle of the trail with people holding her hands - she couldn't move her back or feel her legs. She was panicked, bleeding and crying - we called an ambulance and we summoned a cop who happened to be near. Frightning experience - I was talking to one of the pedestrians who witnessed the accident - the U of M cyclists were going really fast and had shouted "on yer left" and proceeded to pass a slower cyclist, then out of nowhere - this dude on a bike coming from a perpendicular entrance rode into the bike trail without looking and the 2 U of M women T-Boned the dude. They went flying cartwheel style still clopped in and landed about 30 feet away. The dude got all bloody and had bonked his head (no helmet). I worry about shit like this happenning to me - and I try to be safe, just there are some idiots out there who are just sooo inobservant or idiotic, accidents happen. I hope that woman is doing ok - I may have to contact the team to send her a get well card.

Today was my Mother's Birthday - celebrated a quick dinner and a few gifts. She's a lovely lady :)

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Quick post tonight - too much to do...too little time. I have an early morning meeting to attend (at 8am in washington, need to pick up a colleague at 7am then drive in), so I need to leave @ 5:40am - yuck. I will say this again, I hate the fucking traffic in the Washington DC area.

Today was actually quite nice - and civil for my first real day back to work since my vacation(s) that I took last week (I still regret not taking the entire week off). Sobeit, damage done - and back to an intense workweek. Mr Abba was being a dick today, unsure why. I'll be glad to be out of the office all day at an offsite meeting - as boring as it will be. I'll do a quick training ride afterwards and then go meet up with my parents - Mother's birthday (the real "dinner" is on Friday).

So after a grueling day today - finally launched into a perfect high cadence training ride out to Purcellville and back, 44 miles. Met up witha few of my bike buds and we paced it out and back. I was still sore from Saturday, but the temperature was perfect, almost on the cool side.

No time for anything else - gotta pay bills, fold laundry and hit the sack.

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Just a few photos to look at while I format and upload pictures - I have experienced zero time these past days. I'll eventually put together a cohesive blog of these trips.

Lipchunks & 'Liza, click to enlarge photo by d. scott gregory	Scott, Bill, Dave, click to enlarge photo by d. scott gregory
pass the garlic, click to enlarge photo by mother gregory	dork fishing with farmer tan, click to enlarge photo by mother gregory

Today I woke up very sore - and sleepy. I didn't actually get out of bed until noon - I even made a pot of coffee and took a hot shower @ 9am...I was still brutally sore from the Century and long ass drive home yesterday. I finally got my ass in gear and packed up a few things to go on a mid afternoon high cadence 25 mile stretch. It was hot out - so I had to forgo all the trivialities of cycling in the intense heat, big freekin deal..I do it all the time.

Was a nice relaxing ride - just sore and stretching. Threatened to thunderstorm - never did. I was more worried about the dinner I was cooking my father for Father's Day getting rained out.

"Cat Snake", click to enlarge photo by d. scott gregory

Which it didn't - even held off even though I had my car thoroughly washed of all the bugs that lost their lives to my windshield in the past 740 miles I've put on my car in the past week. I managed to make that feast for Father's Day - Grilled FIlet Mignon slathered with Marsala infused shitake mushrooms and onions, garlic herbed wild rice, brocolli with a lime butter vinegrette, spicy crab stuffed mushrooms - and for dessert - an array of cheesecake (chocolate, pumpkin, apple crisp, et al). I was sooo full afterwards. He was very appreciative. Before our trip to the lake - I suprized him with a premature Father's Day gift of a few quality fishing rods/reels (his older ones were falling apart). Was the last thing I helped him "load" into his Jeep for the drive down to the lake ("...here, dad - you need these too ..." [wrapped with a bow]).

Well, the vacation week is officially over - even though I worked a day and a half. I feel at a loss that I didn't get everything done - and I don't feel relaxed at all. Too much stress to try to relax.

Sunday night anxiety settles in....

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