Short ride this morning – longer ride this afternoon with a partner (once she picks up her bike today). Again, at Massasoit State Park.
5.4 Miles (1 mile road, 4.4 miles trails) – average speed 9.8 mp/h, Top Speed 18 mph. 22 minutes.
Bought a Thule Speedway 962 on Thursday night and installed it last night. Today was its first use – we’ll try it out for two bikes this afternoon.
Indianapolis has suffered its second line in the duty death of a police officer with the murder this morning of Butler University Police Officer James Davis, reports the Indianapolis Star:
A Butler University Police Department officer was shot and killed this morning in the parking lot at Hinkle Fieldhouse, and his suspected assailant was shot less than three hours later a short distance away.
The officer, who university officials identified as James Davis, 31, was pronounced dead at 11:08 a.m. from a single gunshot wound to the head. He had been with the Butler police since January, 2003.
Police set up a perimeter from 46th Street to 49th Street between Sunset Lane and Boulevard Place as they searched for the suspect, who fled the scene of the 10:30 a.m. shooting on foot.
At 12:45 p.m., police engaged the suspect in the 4400 block of North Illinois Street. The suspect was shot and has been transported to Wishard Memorial Hospital.
Police late this afternoon identified the suspect as Kahdir Al Khattab, 26. He was in critical condition.
Al Khattab had been wanted on an arrest warrant for battery.
I’ll point out that Officer Davis was a year ahead of me at Indiana University. While I do not recall his name – his face is familiar to me. Perhaps I knew him – perhaps we took a class together – perhaps not. But I feel his loss nonetheless.
RIP Officer James Davis….
Went and visited nearby Massasoit State Park about nine miles down the road in East Taunton, Massachusetts.
Today’s Ride: 15.3 miles, 9.6 mph, Top Speed 33.5 mph. About 75% of the ride was trails (thus the significantly lower average speed), the rest was road work / recovery.
Some pics from the camera phone of the ride:
I’m sitting in the Panera Bread in Saugus, MA doing some work before heading across the parking lot to the store. I tried to access my weblog here at bryanstrawser.com and got this message:
This site is blocked by the SonicWALL Content Filter Service.
URL: http://www.bryanstrawser.com/
Reason for restriction: Forbidden Category “Pornography”
What the hell?!
I checked Sonicwall’s Category Descriptions and found this:
Pornographic sites containing sexually explicit material for the purpose of arousing a sexual or prurient interest.
Yup, you got it. My weblog is pornographic.
I guess I say FUCK too often.
Well, Fuck Sonicwall!
Lest you think this is becoming a cycling log – despair not!
I am in the midst of the most significant change in my personal life in many many years.
When I was in high school, I was a 140 pound speed machine. I ran somewhere around 6-8 miles daily. From June through October I played 2-3 hours of Tennis at least once a day – and often more. I swam laps like there was no tomorrow while lifeguarding at the city pool. Most nights I umpired two softball games. Starting the Monday after tennis season ended, I hit the weights and started running – and that didn’t let up until track ended in June. I did that for four years.
Then came college, the discovery of beer, and a stressful job and suddenly I weighed 230 pounds.
Last year, I did a modified Atkins diet and lost thirty pounds over two months. And then I gained it all back.
Three weeks ago I finally decided that I had enough. I started a food diary and discovered I was overeating by about 1200 calories each day. That was fairly easy to trim down. I just changed what I was eating – how I was snacking – and cut out all of the crap (like ice cream).
I do miss ice cream!
Then I started running. First outdoors, then on the treadmill – and then I broke out the bike.
Now my bike was 12 years old – I paid $80 for it at Target to have for college. The new bike is a world of difference.
My goal is to get to 170 pounds and do a century ride (100 miles) by October 1st, 2005. I believe this is completely doable.
My reward is that I’ll let myself purchase a nice road bike – like this Trek 1000. Until then, I’ll buy nothing. No computer gizmos, no new gadgets, no new golf clubs, nada.
Short day due to issue at the house – only 13 minutes, 3.1 miles, average speed around 14.6 mp/h, top speed 24.5 mp/h.
3 Laps around the development.
I pushed hard, got up a good sweat and then ran out of light.
Monday’s ride: 5.2 miles in 25.43 minutes. Average speed was 13.96 miles/hour. Top speed 23.9 miles/hour.
Up Williams Street, around King’s Place development, circled housing addition twice.
Nice simple ride – saw one other biker on a road bike.
First ride w/ shorts and gloves – much more comfortable…