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I decided  not to set the alarm this morning and allow my body whatever time it needed for sleep.  I so rarely do that and the amazing thing, I was up at 6:30.  Instead of getting in a patrol to the Bells, I just retrieved my bike and clothes and worked the part-time temp job for a few hours.  I tried to work longer, but the bike was calling to me.  I just had to ride.  Got in a nice 50+  mile ride and now I’m happy.

I rode home from town, dumped my pack and filled up the water bottles and headed downvalley on the path.  Had to fight a head wind (like that’s a surprise) down valley.  But I was thrilled to actually have the wind at my back most of the way up valley.  I’ve missed getting out and spending a few hours on the bike.  I did the calculations and discovered that I burned 1918 calories.  Biking is really such a great way to get in your weekly exercise.  I don’t belong to a gym anymore so it’s really about the only exercise that I get besides a fair amount of walking.  Since it’s also the way that I communte to work, it fits into the daily routine pretty nicely.

My second ride today made me really appreciate watching the Tour.  I started  when they had about the same number of miles to ride as I did…they finished a lot faster than I did!  I’m sure they also had more vertical feet to climb, I think I only go down 1,000 feet.  Though my entire ride is at over 6,000′.  The Pelaton rode a great deal faster than I did.  I tried to ride pretty hard and managed to cut 20 mintues off my regular time despite the headwind.  I could not have ridden any faster and it still took me 3:40 to go 40 miles.  I can make the 20 miles to Carbondale in under an hour, it’s ride back up hill that takes so much time.  The pros make me look like I’m practically standing still.  I just don’t understand how they can ride uphill so fast for so long!! I console myself by remembering that I actually could have given birth to most of the younger riders…god that makes me feel old! But it does mean that I can ride far slower and not feel too bad!  Tourists make me feel pretty good too, I can pass them!

I was going to go back to work for a few more hours but I’m tired and I still have some gardening to do and go down to the store.  I think I will tend to my personal chores this evening and start out fresh in the morning and really get cranking this week on all of my part time gigs.

Going to be a great week…Harry Potter #? opens.   I can’t keep up with the films…it could be six.  If I didn’t live in CO, I’d have time to not only know what # film is coming out, but I’d have re-read the book too!  But we Coloradans are not big readers in the summer…we spend every hour that we’re not working, biking, hiking or rafting.  I love watching the Potter films…with my boys.  This film is going to be bitter sweet, it will be the first one that I haven’t gone to with my boys.  Travis and I would wait to see it together…but we can’t take the chance that it won’t be playing here when T gets back home!  We all went to see the last one together.  Their father scheduled their flight east on the day that the film came out and we decided that we had to see it  so Travis, Keegan and I dragged ourselves to the midnight showing.  We got home at 3:00am then we had to be up at 5:30am for their flight!  That was a long day!!  What I love about the films is that Harry reminds me so much of Keegan.  He and Harry are the same age and he is a drop dead look alike to the Harry in the books!  Seriously, everyone always used to call him Harry Potter.  His boss at Subway, used that as Keeg’s password.  Keegan even has the scar on his forehead from a golfing incident when he was 11.

What else is happening this week?  Hopefully I will have a job interview for a position that I think I would really enjoy at the Aspen Daily News.  Fingers crossed!  I intend to visit nearly every retail establishment in town and re-new or sell an ad in the Guide.  My calculator tells me that I have to sell 20 ads to keep my head above water for the next few months.  I’ve come close to selling… one.  Time to put my nose to the grindstone!!

Ok…I’m going to the grocery store before it gets any later.  That is probably one of the only slight difficulties of living in CO.  Grocery shopping takes a bare mimimum of 1:45 to accomplish since the store is about 20 minutes away.  And as long as you are down there, you have to buy cheaper gas.  It’s after 6, I’ll be lucky to get home before dark.  I need to do some planting in my garden too.  Where does the day go?

Hope you all had a great weekend!

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