making a dent in homework

finished off the english oral, halfway to finishing the french oral, had an essay in french to do, so that set me back a bit, started on svt, still need to type and go over. today, slept in, that was chill, got a gig at the rogue cafe at 2pm, then headed off to a sheryl crow concert in concord. we'll get back around 9, and then tomorrow, doing the group ride with mike hutchinson, tt specialist, should be fun.

wow school takes up a lotta time

rode tuesday over mt. tam with the AC group ride and coach. it was hard. my legs are still sore. for school, working on oral reports for english on the odyssey, science on the oort cloud, french on a german writer during the french revolution. have a h/g test monday on athens, in 5th century BC, it's like jesus christ

past few days, been really busy

did the twilight crit, 31st of 100 in cat 3-4 amateur, came home, watched the pro women's and men's, that was a ton of fun, rode on sunday to mom's company picnic, drove home, went to school today, then rode after school, windy as hell, tomorrow planning to ride up tam with a big group, gonna have to rush though, and ride fast as hell to meet them

wednesday, a bit harder

went to school, in the middle of lunch, someone told me i was in big trouble because during summer, i made a facebook for my french teacher and well he found out today, had a fit, told my principal, who basically was speechless saying he couldn't believe i did it, now i gotta write a bunch of apologies and i feel like shit

tuesday was easy for me

woke up, went to school, today was really easy, don't know why it just seemed that way. came home, rode the bike, but the GG park race/rides are over for the year now. oh well. might start riding in marin with the coach on tuesdays, his team does rides up mt. tam every tuesday.

easy monday

went to school, rode actually, didn't do much today, monday's my easy day of the week, came home and just rode the trainer, just didn't really feal like heading out today, will be heading out the rest of the week though, so that'll make up for it, loving the cold weather. trying to get all my homework done for the week, hopefully i can do so, i'm about halfway there right now. still have some french reading and questions on the reading and other questions not on the reading to do.

group ride, first one in a long time

woke up at 630 today, my body wakes up automatically now, it sucks. drove out to walnut creek for the ride, the bridge was really busy, but other than that, it was fun. parents wouldn't let me drive back, guess i'm not too experienced yet. group ride was fun, we headed out to orinda, easy and down san pablo dam rd., through hercules, rodeo, and by the refineries, through crockett and past port costa, through martinez and pacheco back to longs. fun ride, i set the pace most of the way as the strongest guy there. came back, going to watch some tv, and then fall asleep

work, otherwise, a boring day, but better than school

woke up at 715, went to work at 830, thought it was going to be insanely busy, but it was insanely slow for a nice day like today but whatever. got a cash register to put money in, that was super cool, made $96, came home, eating burgers for dinner, got to do some homework...

yeah it's the weekend

went to school, was busy, got a lot of homework to do, including an oral report on the odyssey, f-that. went to band but drummer wasn't there, said he had a headache from the heat. came home, doing homework now, going to work tomorrow, rode easy today for 1h. my legs are tired from a season of racing and they want rest

busy thursday

had school, was busy at school, no homework though, so that's cool, went for a long ride around 4, in marin, up highway 1, panoramic past pantoll, down panoramic, through stinson beach, up bolinas-fairfax, down the big hill called mt. tam to home. long ride, feel really tired, really tired, 3h, 53 miles, lots of climbing

first 2 days of school

new teachers, packed schedule, basically i won't have much free time this school year. rode both days, tomorrow, hoping to do the mt. tam hill climb course should be under 50mins, hopefully, i'll get home before dark. already have homework in classes, and i'm stuck on my first math assignment. I HATE MATH! watched the RNC to laugh pretty hard, and did so. watched the daily show and colbert report and laughed hard again, because republicans are so stupid

oh snap it's september and school starts tomorrow

did the Giro today, here's the report, don't want school to start tomorrow:

Adam Hodes

Giro di SF

9/1/08

Cat 3s

Field: 90

Place: 43rd

Avg. HR: 185

18 miles – 43 minutes

Feel good: 8

Teammates: Peter

I rode to this race, it took me all of 10minutes. My race was at 2:10, but I rode over at 10:30 to watch other races. I watched the end of the 4/5s, the 45+/55+, the 35+1/2/3s, the kids race, and the women’s 1/2/3 while I was warming up. Because of crashes in earlier races, my race was delayed by about 30minutes. I warmed up on the rollers for about 50minutes, longer than I wanted to, but it didn’t matter too much. I went to the staging area, and lined up in the second row. The race started and I placed myself somewhere in the middle. I definitely liked being on the inside on all the turns, but there was one where I was always on the outside, and it worked for me. We were doing 24 laps and and I started getting tired with 12 to go. I was gradually falling back. With about 5 to go, I tried moving up. The downhill was the best place to do this, although I hit some bumps too hard I guess, because my bars dropped dramatically. Since I usually ride with my bars lower than other people, it didn’t bother me too much. SF streets are the worst by the way. So with 2 to go, I was somewhere in the middle again, and there was a crash exiting turn 6, the last turn before the finish. It took about 15 people out, but it was far enough ahead of me, that I was able to steer clear of it. I just stayed where I was for the last lap, unable to move up, and happy I made the top half.