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Thanks for all the info. I will definitely look into the refurbished ones. Our company has worked with companies who refurbish vending machines and the programs are very similar, which makes me feel a bit more comfortable with it. I'm just wanting something to get me back into some level of activity. I don't like gyms.

I have noticed that the migraine hangovers seem to be getting worse or at least more noticeable the older I get, sometimes lingering for two days after. When I was taking Paxil, I never got migraines. If not for the other side effects, eliminating four or six of those a year alone would make it worth it.

I am your friendly on line biology tutor. Specialise in the immune system, but you need any help just yell.

Will be glued to the tour on cyclingnews, and on the live TDF website. then watching it in grainy crap reception on SBS in the evening. Off for a couple of days up north. Supposed to be work ( will be bum-numbingly dull) but will get out for an open water swim both days in nice warm water....

I sort migraines by taking 400mg ibuprofen as soon as the eyes start. Don't know how you cope with that when you're asleep though. Bummer. If I don't catch it in those ealry stages i'm buggered for 2 days. Only had one since i cam to Oz nearly three years ago though...

Cycling buddy did a PB in the Doomben half marathon on Sunday. he beat 1hr 15. Definitely going to do the efforts sneakily and alone.

I'd forgotten about blancmange...

maybe that is good thing. The cure features big on tomorrows playlist. Could be slow efforts.

ah migraines, i get terrible migraines - hereditary ones passed onto me by my mom, along with sinus problems from my dad. they couldn't have passed on something good, huh?

yeah, my twenties. the first few years were pretty good, my mid-twentiues sucked and dragged, the last couple of years have been good but slightly filled with angst about pushing 30 - only now that i am about to hit 30, i've kind of embraced it and in doing so, feel strangely on top of things and capable of anything, which i haven't done in years. plus moving to sweden from scotland has given me a lot of closure with negative elemnts of my past - people, places, situations - and that's liberating, so. . .

it's a new start - a clean slate. i feel lucky.

and thank you

Shame about the weather. I moved to the other side of the world because the weather in jocko sucked big time. Got me really depresed. Brissy - beautiful one day, perfect the next. If it does rain, it raisn short warm and hard, and you know it will be fine later or the next day. Good cafe/restaurant culture as well. Lived in quite a few places over the years, but in no real hurry to move from here.

Two sex dreams in a row? try being male (not really possible I guess). I can't remember the last dream that didn't have some sexual overtones/undertones. Even the cycling ones (and there are a lot of those...)

New England in the fall? I guess all those leaves make it pretty easy to lose your wheels on the corners.

Rugby Union is truly the greatest team sport ever. I played from age 15 to 30. Got too hard and esy ot get injured after that. Couldn't do the referreeing job though. Dad did that when he 'retired' from playing and said it was like being a school teacher at the weekends as well as during the week. However your motives for it make me think about marshalling some of the women's tri events here (athletes, lycra, neoprene )

*gasp*
George Clooney!!!
(swoon)
*reaches for smelling salts*



(whoa! you SERIOUSLY pared down your friends list! I'm flattered to have made the cut!)

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Gotta be Phil for the Tour. Got reminded of that vacant idiot Dave duffield on Eurosport when I was in Italy He has real talent for completely missing what is going on because he is talking about a speciality Pie that comes from the region that the aunt of the rider in green that briefly passed through the cameras field of view but whose name he can't remember came from.

Thinking about yoga. But really into pilates at present. Changes your body totally. Fixed my back for good.

Clooney picks good scripts. Loved intolerable cruelty, o brother where art thou (but love all coen bros stuff) and saw Syriana on the flight to London.

Where in Oz? Viva Bris-vegas.

sounds like an awesome trip, got room for company

coming this way? Pack yer bike!

Thanks for the kind words. Also it is quite awesome that you are starting an early morning routine, i need to do the same so good for you,

At the moment i'm halfway through my bathroom at the moment,but i'm sure i coulfd give you a hand

I built the bike up myself,and cause it's rigid with a steep head angle and smallish rear triangle it's nimble and manouvrable. It's was single speed but i had high gearing for longer rides,but this is just sweet.

The internal hub i used is the newer version of a classic. I haven't heard of the hubs you mentioned but i'll look into them

Take it easy honey

I long for a gorgeous sunny day!!! It's all a bit overcast ,wtih random rain as usual did have the coffee though Always a bright spot.

Have a good run

Enjoy the run in the sun. Its cold here in the mornings at present (5 degrees celcius) so need to rug up.

got up at 5.30. Put on the monitor. heart rate 38. did some stretches, heart rate 46. Drank half a cup of coffee. heart rate 73!!! Bloody hell.

Did my first ride in months with my old training buddy. Back was good, which is great. He smoked me on one of my favourite hills. not good. I could resign myself to the fact that he is 10 years younger and not worry about it. Alternatively, i could sneakily do a load of hill rep sessions while he is tapering for a marathon at the end of june. Mwahahahaha

Hey, I've always said that I give ugly shoes a home. Without me, those babies would be orphaned on the clearance table.

the number of bikes we need = n +1, where n is the number we already have

My lust is the Bianchi 928 L carbon record 10. My back will be 40 years old next year and i reckon it deserves that ride-on-air feel you only get with carbon. Set up is a compromise. I tri so TT is important but I ride the mountains, so all the extra ironmongery and set up associated with a TT bike gets in the way. Oh yeah, I lurve me some mountains...

As someone who lives smack dab in the middle of the Starbucks Northwest coffee culture, I can tell you getting your coffee ground in the shop is the best way to get an even grind, especially for French press. Buy your coffee at Starbucks (or your local version, thereof) and tell the barista to grind it there for you. (Be sure to specify that you want it for a French press) That way you get all the benefits of an even grind and a perfect cup of pressed brew without spending the gazillion bucks on a professional grade grinder. Of course, you probably already know this being the educated and brilliant woman you are but it's just my 2-cents worth

Glad you liked the picture in my journal. I'm kind of a picture finding bender right now and it was a definite gem!

might want to try the filtre belgique... i wanted to cut back on my coffee consumption and swtiched to this "one-hitter". much easier to clean than the french press. also, the capresso cool grind is the best when it comes to convenience and price. coffee is the last addiction i'll ever kick.

aawww, don't say my cardio is going to be shot to shit, that makes me

saturday = pilates (to Pulp, I have this Different Class thing in my head at present). Fix Bike, ride bike (maybe 50), write grant proposal.
Sunday = write grant proposal I know I won't do on saturday in spite of good intentions). Mini Brick (bike 40 run 5).
Monday = back to the salt mines.
Don't sugar the coffee, just buy different coffee...