View From the Bushes

I mentioned that I had decided to bike into work today. I was actually pretty excited about it. I had essentially decided to take last year off (from biking) because I was so busy with DireKobold. As you can see, that extended into this year, so it's actually been about a year and a half since I've been on my bike, although this doesn't count the exercise bike (though I haven't done much there either). As a result, the ride in this morning was ugly, really ugly. We're talking mothers shielding their children's eyes ugly.

One of the most painful aspects to beginning to ride again is that you have to kill all the nerves in your butt again. This is a pretty painful process, moreso on the second ride (in this case my ride home) than the first ride, because on the first ride you're just causing damage, on the second ride you're causing damage on an already damaged area. But within the first few rides, all the nerves are dead again and you can then move on to focusing on the pain in your legs. One of the things I do when I bike in is track how long it took each time. My cycling computer has a great feature where it will only count time while the wheel is moving, so although stop lights and such affect the time, they don't affect it as much as otherwise. Ideally, I would like to do it in less than 30 minutes though currently that's a long way off. My time today was 43 minutes with an average speed of 10.6 mph. To do it in less than 30 I'll have to average over 15 mph, so I'm guessing it's going to take awhile. Based on my past numbers, I think the first half (avg speed 12.5) will go pretty fast; it's the last half that will take until next year.

I haven't mentioned this in a while, but it looks the the SCO crusade against Linux, IBM and everything else they could get their hands on is starting to collapse. First a judge in Michigan threw out the vast majority of their suit against Daimler Chrysler. Then SCO got in a spat with their biggest investor. Finally, there's every reason to think that the main lawsuit of SCO vs. IBM is on it's last legs as well. It's nice when things work out the way they should for once.

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Ross