Scotch Egg

Recently, my sister came to portland, we laughed, we danced( rot really), and we ate Scotch Eggs.
The scotch egg, pictured below is a little animal with a little more animal, and then deep fried. Delicious. Also notice the length of the hair in exhibit a. nice huh?

Rat Dog

I was on the tail end of a 4 hour ride, kind of tired, legs kind of burning, when I happend upon north bank trail on the willamette river.

To preface this post, everyone has to understand one thing, people in Oregon; they love their dogs. I love dogs too. I don't even mind whe three borzois wake me up at night. I hope to someday have a pup of my own.

While 99 % of everyone on the trail had a dog, and had their dog on a leash, one lady had two little guy that apparently, did not need leashes.

I was winding down from a hard day in the saddle when one of the two rat dogs jumped infront of my wheel. Brakes locked up. Power slide. Near endo. Rat dog aprox two mm from getting spinal cord run over by yours truley.

We don't have leash laws to take away the "fun" from anyone. We have them for safety, and so I don't smush you rat dog.

Sauce Demi Glace

A demi glace is a reduction made of equal parts sauce espangole and veal stock/veal reduction. I had everything in line to perfect this culinary treat that goes with a nice steak. I roasted my mirapioux, mushrooms, and beef bones. Then add water, veal stock, tomato paste, rosmary, thyme, and let the flavors get together, for 6-8 hours.

Things were going great, I was two hours into the process, and needed to step out to eat sushi with friends Randy and Greg. MY though process was a follows: put the stock on low, step out and eat, come back, finish stock. I came back to no stock, dried up burnt bones, and the inability to proceed with the demi glace process. Woops.

To weight 200 lbs. I had the great experience, on sunday during my ride. My dur-ace cable broke off in the hood, while i was climbing a 8% grade/3000 ft climb. The rear der was set in the 12. The two otions were 1. turn around 2. continue climbing at 20-30 rpms. What do you think I did? Yeah, at some points, my computer was regestering a cadence 1 I was moving so slow.

What it feels like-

What I do on my days off

As the above/below pictures would indicate, I am indeed back on the bike. I have a ride that I do call McGowen Creek road in the Mohawk/coburg hills area. McGowen Creek road is a great road with tones of elevation, and a bit of steepness as well. Their are a couple finger extentions that come off of the road. One of which, Rd 16-2-29 which between 13-19 % grade and an additional 5 miles. I effectively call this road the many things but none of them are good. McGowen Creek to Mt Tom road is ~12 mile ( I though it was 8 before but it ends up switching to gravel at the 8-9 mile point) and Crests out at ~3000 ft. Its gradient is only 5-10%, only. Here are a couple of pictures of the road, the good Doctor would be proud of all the tarmac/gravel climbing I have been doing.

O.A.R, Bikeling, and like blind melon said...

No Rain. Weird, I know. We haven't had rain in nearly a week. Not much sun either, but I'd rather have overcast weather and the occasional SSRI's instead of rain. My riding has consisted of night rides with the below pictured bike light. Instead of powering hours out on the trainer, the mild nights (high thirties) lend itself to the accumulation of hours outside. This week will make 15 hours, which throughly please my inner need to be on the bike non-stop. And a weight update, only 49,000 kcal left to lose!



Last night, I went to the O.A.R concert. It reminded me to that whimsical time called college. Ah, college, no waking up at 6 am and such...

The ride I am doing sunday has 4163 ft of climbing, sounds like a day at ragby if you ask me.