{"id":770,"date":"2010-08-30T11:13:23","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T16:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=770"},"modified":"2010-08-30T11:13:23","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T16:13:23","slug":"ow-ow-ow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/ow-ow-ow\/","title":{"rendered":"Ow. Ow. Ow."},"content":{"rendered":"

Hit and miss kind of weekend.\u00a0 We started off strong on Friday with a little entertainment.\u00a0 We met up with the Martins and our friend Lori down at Los Tules for a tasty dinner.\u00a0 That place is pretty solid;\u00a0 If it’s not on your regular rotation you might want to check it out.\u00a0 We had a nice leisurely dinner and then headed down to Grinders for a show.\u00a0 We got there in time to see the end of the BoDean’s set, and then Big Head Todd & The Monsters came on at 9:30.\u00a0 I’m not sure how many times we’ve seen them but it’s always a good show.\u00a0 Being outside on a fine evening was an added bonus;\u00a0 Definitely premium “outdoor concert” weather.<\/p>\n

Saturday was something of a bust, at least from my point of view.\u00a0 Donette, meanwhile, met up with a bunch of friends and headed up to Waldo for the second annual Bacon Fest.\u00a0 We went last year when it was downtown and had a great time, but I was skeptical it would be a success two years in a row.\u00a0 For one thing, events in Waldo tend to get way too big.\u00a0 The place is just a little too popular right now.\u00a0 Another downer was that my favorite band, Bacon Shoe, would not be playing this year.\u00a0 Speculation varied on why they didn’t come back.\u00a0 I think they might have been a bit too…\u00a0 “edgy,” perhaps.\u00a0 Anyway, it sounds like I missed out on a good time.\u00a0 Reports were that it was indeed very crowded, but they handled it OK.\u00a0 There was a lot of cool swag this year too.\u00a0 Oh well.\u00a0 Still no Bacon Shoe.\u00a0 In my own little pork tribute, I threw a few slabs of ribs on the smoker and sat around watching them cook all afternoon.<\/p>\n

Sunday I joined Munkirs and Martin out by Longview College for the Summer Breeze<\/a> bike ride.\u00a0 I had high hopes for a nice cool afternoon like the ones we’ve been enjoying lately.\u00a0 If you stepped outside yesterday, you probably know that was the first failure of the day.\u00a0 Like all rides, it started off well enough though.\u00a0 Failure #2 occurred at approximately the 20-mile mark, where we had the option of turning for the 45 mile route, or continuing on for the 70 mile route.\u00a0 I confidently declared “I am doing the 70,” and rolled on.\u00a0 I was immediately bombarded with a flurry of hostility, ranging from “This is a bad, bad, bad idea” to “I’m gonna punch you in the face.”\u00a0 Hey, I clearly said “I<\/strong> am doing the 70.”\u00a0 Since when did anybody ever follow any of my bad ideas?\u00a0 We all forged on though, with me bombarded the entire time with reminders of my poor judgement.\u00a0 By the 45 mile mark, I was inclined to agree with them.\u00a0 By the sixty mile mark, I was backing them 100%.\u00a0 They had a nice BBQ lunch set up at that point, and in retrospect maybe we should have hung out there for a while and recovered.\u00a0 But, honestly, the thought of a greasy brisket sandwich slathered in BBQ sauce was not very appealing at the time.\u00a0 I was fighting leg cramps, and absolutely debilitating back pain;\u00a0 I just wanted to be done.\u00a0 So we trudged on.\u00a0 Failure #3 came at the 70 mile marker, when we found ourselves on the wrong side of Longview Lake.\u00a0 If you click the 70-mile route map at the bottom of that website, you can see it is quite clearly 75<\/strong> miles.\u00a0 So, what’s five more miles when you’ve already ridden seventy?\u00a0 QUITE A #$)* BIT!<\/strong> Twenty more minutes of misery, after I’d been staring fixedly at my odometer for the last hour expecting to be done.\u00a0 I do hope they send out a comment form on this ride, I’ve got some for them.\u00a0 I made it home and laid down for a while, and when I was confident I could quit yelping from the intermittent back spasms we headed over to our friend Lisa’s house for a Sunday night BBQ.\u00a0 A few other couples joined us, and we sat around in the back yard enjoying a pot-luck kinda dinner.\u00a0 Delicious food enjoyed outside on a nice evening?\u00a0 Fun.\u00a0 Seventy-five mile bike ride?\u00a0 Not fun.<\/p>\n

So, did I wake up this morning and think to myself, “Ahhhh, that wasn’t so bad, I’d do it again.”\u00a0 No not really.\u00a0 While I feel a lot better than I expected, I’m still a little beat up.\u00a0 My main driver behind going for the 70-miler was to decide if I really wanted to try the MS-150 this year, and this morning that would be a resounding “NO.”\u00a0 So maybe I could<\/em> grind through day one, maybe even do the 100-mile route.\u00a0 Would I want to get up and do it again the next day?\u00a0 Absolutely not, I could think of no worse idea on earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hit and miss kind of weekend.\u00a0 We started off strong on Friday with a little entertainment.\u00a0 We met up with the Martins and our friend Lori down at Los Tules for a tasty dinner.\u00a0 That place is pretty solid;\u00a0 If it’s not on your regular rotation you might want to check it out.\u00a0 We had […]<\/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-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","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=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}