I’m certifiable – I must be.
I stand at my desk, I recline on my bike, I type in Dvorak (on a QWERTY keyboard) and I’ve even recently shaved off a perfectly good head of hair.
What have I done now you ask? I’ve gone and paid good money to ride my bike 100 miles by myself around in circles just because some equally certifiable blogger did it three years ago and then somehow got 500 friends to do it with him – and the thing is, I’m psyched to do it.
Okay, rationalizing now…the money goes for a good cause – Livestrong, yeah yeah. I know plenty of people with cancer who’d appreciate the thought, and I do think of you.
I’ll get some schwag, and a shirt, mostly stuff I don’t want or need.
And I don’t really have money to burn right now but…what am I saying – I’m doing it because it is just goofy enough and somehow cool enough to appeal to that part of me that still remembers what it’s like to dig a hole, an all day hole, for the heck of it.
The part that likes to sleep outside in the rain BECAUSE it’s raining.
The part that once counted 3,000 cars passing by on the way home from Granny’s house.
The part that once dared myself to slap a bee faster than it could sting me.
But did I really have to publicly pick a course with a combined elevation gain of 11,811 feet? (not that I’ve counted) simply because it happens to be part of a 1.0069 mile loop right outside my front door?
Ok – yes, yes I did, for the same reason I tried to slap that bee and…well…I wasn’t faster than the bee.
But I’m older now (much older) and wiser and meh, what’s a hill or two…or one hundred.
The real hard part is going to be keeping track of my laps.
I’ll come up with something.
blief 
you don’t have a computer?
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You are an odd duck…but that is why I admire you so damn much. Go get’em. 😉
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Yeah – I’ve got a computer – it’ll work.
But there is something that sounds satisfying about having some sort of flip board that I can whack when I ride by that will tell how many laps I’ve done.
Maybe I could make one of those Mario Coin Boxes I saw recently on Instructables. 🙂
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We don’t love you for the hours you spend at work nor do we care what brand of jeans you wear.
We love the man ( and loved the boy) who sleeps in the rain, sings silly songs, wears weird shoes, counts cars, stands when most sit and rides a cool bike ( that you may or may not have made custom?) that’s the “good stuff”.
Good luck on your ride, have fun and enjoy being you ~ goofy and all . :~D
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So, you are one who “likes to sleep outside in the rain BECAUSE it’s raining.“, huh!?
Well then that explains that cold, wet hike I took with you and your Dad up past Crescent Lake on a day that turned drizzly and there wasn’t any shelter to sleep under for the night!
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It’s got your name written all over it!!
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I’ll bet we could build a light-activated counter using the “101 Electricity Projects” kit. Every time you pass through the light beam, it would increment the counter by one.
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You know I bet you are right.
I might even be able to use my phone to track laps as well. Not sure that my battery would last long enough for a 100 mile ride with that much climbing on gps mode though.
These days though, there are lots of options.
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