Internal Mono(b)log

Today’s ride was a 3 hour, MAP (max aerobic power) heart-rate zone 3 ride.   Not having really planned and not knowing where to go, I did the lakeshore toward Burlington route that I’d previously done.  It’s a good ride, with generally good roads and generally good traffic.  I forgot to start runkeeper on my phone until I was already part way back, but here’s a view of a snippet of my ride @ runkeeper.com (add about 5k out on lakeshore from the where I started recording and turn the route into an “out and back” (rather than just “back”) you get the full picture).

On this ride, I’d planned a nutrition experiment: In my speedfil I had just water, in each of 2 waterbottles I had 1 packet of HornetJuice and 1/2 scoop of Carbo-pro. For primary fuel, I had a flask of Hammer Gel Espresso and for electrolytes (this is the real experiment part) I used SaltStick salt tabs.  Because it wasn’t super-hot and I didn’t feel like I was sweating a lot, I decided to do 1 tab every 45 minutes.  Spread the 2 waterbottles evenly over the ride, and drink water generally when riding.  This is a change from my normal protocol of 1 HornetJuice, 1 Carbo-Pro and 1 scoop of EFS or other electrolyte sport-drink.  My thinking is that this approach allows me to hydrate without electrolytes or fuel.  Generally, this protocol seemed to work pretty well.  Definitely an experiment that I’ll continue to work with.

I also made a discovery on this ride – completely unrelated to the nutrition protocol experiment… well, maybe not completely unrelated… Ok.. on with it:

I ride, when training, with bib-style cycling shorts.

They are super comfortable and I love the feel of my Sugoi Bib shorts: they’re so comfortable and padded just right. But!  When you need to pee, and you don’t want to take off your jersey, and the shoulder straps, and pull down the shorts (and like today, sometimes there just isn’t time!) a much easier way to approach the problem, and sorry ladies, this probably only works for guys, is to pull up one of the legs until you can access your plumbing and pee through the stretched out leg hole.  So simple and efficient 🙂

GU Energy | New GU DermaCharge Topical Infusion Gel.

Awesome new product! 😛

Ok, this is only loosely on topic, but it’s still really cool!!! 🙂

Berties Bakery: Cake Report: National Capital Area Cake Show Competition.

A friend send me [this link.](http://immense-world.blogspot.com/2006/09/mathematics-genius.html)

Quite a funny take on math…

A banner advert for a new Sci-fi channel series caught my eye. It was ad for the Cryokennel, a device to cryogenically freeze your pets when you go on long vacations.
It gave me a chuckle and pulled me in to see the rest of the [site](http://www.scifi.com/eureka/madeineureka/). Looks like this could be a fun series. Wonder how long it’ll be before we get it up here in Canada.

I love Apple’s Mac ads, but this [parody](http://www.bestweekever.tv/2006/07/07/bwe-mac-ads/) is pretty darned funny too.

Enjoy!

Have you ever flushed a toilet in an office or restaurant that sounded like and flushed like it was jet propelled? My new office has them, and being the curious person that I am I had to find out how this worked.

Seems these toilets use a product called a [flushmate](www.flushmate.com). It looks like a pretty neat piece of equipment designed to boost your long-drop’s performance. With the reno’s that Kim and I have been doing and in the vein of concerving water, I think that the 1GPF (1 gallon per flush) model from one of the many vendors is in our immediate future 🙂

After all, a man is King of his house and the King’s thone *needs* to be jet assisted!

I’m sure I’ve seen things like [this](http://zapatopi.net/themes/dactylfractalzoom.html). Don’t stare at it too long and not at all if you’ve ingested any psychedelics recently.

In the car today the DJs were talking about a recent NRA meeting where a well known musician celebrity got up there and said something along the lines of “I’m so radical that I want all criminals dead: rapists, murders, thieves… Just get a gun and shoot em all”.

Got me thinking… If I lived in the ‘States I’d likely be a gun owner. If someone broke into my house while I was there I’d empty the clip. When the officers responded I’d tell them that I panicked.

Their response would likely be a smile and something along the lines of “Nice grouping”.

It’s nice to harken back to a simpler time, when things were clearly defined.

Lol!