Tuesday, February 28, 2006

rather be outside

work sucks. what i would give to not work. but, i wouldn't want to win the lottery either. i read an interesting article this morning about some past lottery winners. some are broke, some are dead, some committed suicide, some are in prison. who am i fooling? i would love to win the lottery! i'll take my chances.

i had an awesome run after work last night! i was doing some calculations and determined i needed to run a 20:48 to keep at a 8 min/mi pace. the other two times i timed myself, i came up with 23:33 and 22:18. the 20:48 looked to be pretty tough for me to beat. i ended up running a 20:34 last night! a 7:54 pace! now if i can keep that up for 10k, i'd be very content. i think running w/o pain really helps. it keeps you focused on running and not the aches and pains.

i was emailing with scotty q yesterday and he said he has not thought about making a softtail 29er. oh well, he pretty much convinced me a custom 29er is the way to go. i also found another blog yesterday where this guy was testing whether or not a 26er was as fast as a 29er. his results showed that the 26er was faster for him on a course w/ lots of climbing. hmmm....makes ya think if all this hype is true. soooo, i've decided to go back to the el cheapo redline monocog 29er. if i don't like it, i could sell it w/ minimal loss of $$ and minimal investment.

i can't wait for it to get warm! spring is right around the corner, i can feel it!

2 Comments:

Blogger Laura said...

Alden,

You're not the only person that could loose $ on a house. After 10 mos. on the market, lowering the price 4 times ours is priced where we bought it 3 years ago. How long have you owned your house?

Laura (and Rich)

11:27 AM, March 16, 2006  
Blogger Alden said...

Hey Laura and Rich,

We've been in our house almost 3 years. It'll be 3 years in June. Did you guys go through an agent or FSBO? We're now leaning towards listing it on FSBO.com and paying the $900 fee up front. Thoughts?

Alden

11:48 AM, March 16, 2006  

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