That was a decent weekend; \u00a0A little entertainment with a little exercise mixed in. \u00a0Friday, not that remarkably, I met up with the boys down at the Brooksider. \u00a0I hung out there for a while, then the Martins joined us for a nice dinner across the street at Carmen’s. \u00a0It was solid as always. \u00a0I broadened my menu horizons a bit and had the calamari linguine, which was very good. \u00a0If I WAS going to complain, I’d note that the calamari was just a bit overcooked, right at the edge of rubbery. \u00a0But it was so tasty I won’t even mention it.<\/p>\n
Saturday I laid low all day. \u00a0Donette got up early and joined her training partners for a run down on the Plaza, then we had lunch at the Blue Moose<\/a>. \u00a0After an immensely delicious turkey panini, we did a bit of shopping. \u00a0I got my first official pair of real running shoes, just in case I ever run. \u00a0The odds are slim, but should it happen I will be prepared. \u00a0We lounged around the rest of the afternoon, and then at the unholy hour of 8:00 headed downtown for a fund raiser one of her friends was hosting. \u00a0Geez, who starts a party at 8:00? \u00a0Somebody far younger than us, I will guarantee you that. \u00a0It was a good time, despite keeping me up well past my bedtime. \u00a0And a comedian who used far too much foul language. \u00a0And music that was entirely too loud. \u00a0Crazy kids, I swear.<\/p>\n Sunday I got up early and headed out to Longview to join Munkirs for the Summer Breeze<\/a> bike ride. \u00a0(Listed on my fancy new Garmin interface over on the right, which I am rather happy with.) \u00a0I’ll go on record as saying this is my least favorite ride of the season. \u00a0I think they should mix in one more rest stop, and the route is far too hilly. \u00a0I heard numerous riders curse their advertised description of “gently rolling hills.” \u00a0Munkirs commented that the local Chamber of Commerce must have coined that phrase. \u00a0The majority of the route is just plain hilly, and there is nothing gentle about many of them. \u00a0This was also the ride Munkirs and I failed miserably on two years ago<\/a>, suffering the additional indignity of getting whipped by Martin. \u00a0(It’s worth noting, however, that Martin effectively hung up his bike after that ride, never to attempt a ride over 15 miles again.) \u00a0As for this year’s ride, it went\u00a0comparatively\u00a0well. \u00a0Despite a constant, and sometimes heavy, rain we finished the 73 mile route with no real issues. \u00a0Riding in the rain sounds like it might be refreshing; \u00a0Not so much. \u00a0Kind of a soggy mess actually. \u00a0I declare us officially prepared for the MS-150 now! \u00a0(Famous last words.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" That was a decent weekend; \u00a0A little entertainment with a little exercise mixed in. \u00a0Friday, not that remarkably, I met up with the boys down at the Brooksider. \u00a0I hung out there for a while, then the Martins joined us for a nice dinner across the street at Carmen’s. \u00a0It was solid as always. \u00a0I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1354,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions\/1354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}