That was an experience, for sure

Its been two days since I have written, lets see. Yesterday Shannon came over at around 10, we spent a little bit of time together before I took a ride out to Cape May to get my pass for the CG Base. All in all it was a nice 39.7 mile ride, the wind was bad in Stone Harbor and gave me a lot of work to do once I got over into Wildwood. The weather did turn a bit cold on the ride back (Should have packed the knee warmers!), but it wasn't too bad especially for late November.. Here is the data for you guys:

After I got back Shannon and I went to Murasaki for some food and had a great evening.

Today was a slow rainy day, got a good sleep before waking up and hanging out at my house for a bit. Then I had to drop some papers off at the credit union and finally I was off to my first ever spin class.
That was interesting, once I got over the fact that the geometry was not what I was used to on my bikes it was a little bit easier. Finding the correct resistance was a little tricky too, but all in all it was a good time and I did work up quite the sweat. I will be doing that again for sure, especially on these rainy days.


Well, thats all I have for now. Until we meet again.

Heres goes everything

I guess it is about time to start updating this and get the ball rolling, so we will start with a little bit about the last two days.
Saturday I was supposed to head out for a long run/hike/water crossing workout with some friends, but a bout of heartburn kept me up all night, leading me to sleep in for quite a while. The sunlight was pretty much shot by the time I got going so I decided to have an unplanned rest day.
Later that night I ended up going over to Pete's house for a bonfire, that was a great time and I had a chance to see some people I have not seen in a while.
Everything was finished up there around 1am, so we all parted ways and I ended up back at home falling asleep sometime before 4am.

Woke up Sunday at around 8am to help Nat with a GPS project, we did a few loops around lizard tail swamp to get some usable GPS plots. It was my first time on the mountain bike for anything serious in a few months, I can really feel myself being hurt by the smallness of the frame and hope to get something more my size soon, all in all however it was a nice easy ride with a small sprint at the end to heat things up.
Here is some data for that ride:

After that Nat and I headed over to Pete's where we flipped the resonator on Nat's exhaust and took a trip to Rio Grande to get a gasket for it.

Then we did a small test drive and watched a bit of TV before Nat and I left. I decided that I should get some sort of road mileage in for the day, but light and temperature was fading fast, and a miscalculation of route distance had me winding up at home with just under 7 miles finished. Not much to say about that.. But heres the data:

I am hoping to put down some serious mileage tomorrow after a good nights sleep tonight, Also Shannon is coming over after I haven't seen her in nearly a week. Looking forward to that.

Anyway, that is about all I have to write today, I hope this post wasn't too rambling or long winded. I will eventually figure out how to write well, for now you have to suffer through the incoherence.

Until we meet again.

Welcome to the adventure!

Good evening everyone!
My name is Kevin Marriner Jr and I have been accepted to participate in Bike and Build 2011. I will be using this blog to document my training leading up to the trip this summer.

I am exceedingly happy to be invited to take on this challenge, and I hope you will enjoy reading what I have to say!


Until we meet again.