Most Productive Day of the Week.

Today! Today was the Most Productive Day of the Week - and my eye lids are falling as I type this. I crossed most everything off my To-Do list even though I have a couple days left in the week because it's best to be tired today than on Saturday!

I took some soap, tshirts, Qtips, toothbrushes to my bike for the 2011 Rodman Ride for Kids cleaning this evening. And now, the grease is all on me instead of the bike. Please, if you see me in the next few days, don't make eye contact with all the spots - just smile and wish me luck.

I rolled my bike into my driveway ... after completing a couple minutes of Leadership reading. Cleaning my bike was the reward for the evening. Cleaning a bike is a tough tough job, but also very nice to receive a great sense of satisfaction. I wish my bike looked like this now, but it's still rather black...

Reels of Dirt

These components are hard to clean around. I know you can take it all apart, but that's the advanced bike technician abilities that I haven't yet learned. I am happy to report that the use of Qtips, as suggested by Rick Muhr worked! I pulled a lot of dirt off the reels. I might even take some time out later in the week to clean more off.

Sped off to the gym for a short workout. I did my usually rowing workout and decided to chill out on that end since it was aggrevating my knee.

My grocery list for the carbo load and ride essentials included:

Honey Nut Cheerios - Wheaties are ... awful!
The Greenest Bananas - I want them for Saturday! but I also only like green bananas!
I splurged with "Focaccia Bread Loaded Signature"
Dried Cranberries
Prince Bow Ties
Pineapple - natural anti inflammatory!
Potateos
Okra
Milk
Cottage Cheese
Chicken

I still need to buy the actually GOOS and COOKIES. I gazed around the bakery area of the grocery store, contemplating what could travel with me. Nothing seemed to fit. I rationalized that the ride support will have tons of great snacks so I dont need to bring anything, but that woman from my first long ride keeps popping into my head saying..." in the last 20 miles, you're going to want THAT COOKIE." I don't doubt her, I often want cookies?

Anyway, all of this went through my head and I left eventually realizing, I would eat it before Saturday and the whole 10 minutes was a very ineffective use of time during my super productive day.

Eat up and Good night!

PS. "Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another." - Ernest Hemingway. I picked up a piece of "trash" this evening outside my house, and it turned out to be the Order of Service for a young 24 year old marine that died last week. It's definitely easy to rush through the day and forget to remember the importance of it all, but this slowed me down so I thought I would include it too.