What a weekend
So I ended up having a pretty decent weekend. Friday night was ok...I was feeling pretty depressed. Luckily, some friends from undergrad were getting together at a bar near my house, some people I hadn't seen in years! They'd been travelling to various parts of the world, so we traded travel stories and shared several pitchers of beer, followed by some pool. I got appropriately drunk, and stumbled home to sober up before going to sleep (I hate sleeping on a stomach full of beer...doesn't work for me...see the previous post about insomnia).
Saturday I woke up feeling pretty good! Went shopping at the market, ate some yummy mexican food, then went for a light bike ride in the Don Valley...good conditions, except that my knee was pretty sore (I've discovered that when I pedal my left knee moves from side to side a LOT! That definitely can't be good...gonna have to tweak my cleat angle on my shoe). Then I went home, ate some Chinese food (mostly rice), and went over to a friend's place to watch Elf (which is not a bad movie, if you can stand that dude that plays the elf...errr...Will Farrell..that's it).
All the rice that I ate Saturday night was in preparation for Sunday...There was a University Cup mountain biking race, and I happen to be on the University of Toronto mountain bike team. We arrived at the gym we meet at in the morning to board the bus, bright and early at 7, only to learn that the truck that takes our bikes up was only available from 9 AM...Budget rentals is a stupid company. The week before they opened at 7, yet somehow their hours are completely random and this week it was 9...not only that, but it closed at 3 pm on Saturday. Anyway, the bikes eventually made it to the race location, at Hardwood Hills. We were really lucky with the weather, it rained on us for most of the race!! it was just great. I especially loved the part about the mud, water and steam completely covering my glasses (which I need, obviously, to see the course), rendering it quite difficult to know where I was going. The other fun part was the loss of braking power...I don't have disc brakes so mud is not great for stopping. Loss of brakes and loss of vision at the same time make for a pretty exciting ride! (In all seriousness, it is actually fun!). I was riding pretty well for 3 of the four laps...I had a bad start though, since I had to go pee just before the race and when I got out, everyone had already lined up, and I ended up right at the back. After 1 lap, I was in 20th (out of 31), after 2 I was in 17th, after 3 I was in 13th or so...Then disaster struck: in a tight technical climb, my left foot caught on a log sticking into the course, causing me to fall over. That wouldn't be so bad, except that while my foot was being pulled back it caused a massive cramp in my calf, which slowed me down for the rest of the race. I ended up in 15th. After the race we all cleaned our bikes (and ourselves) at the bike wash station.
In the ongoing effort to get over my (ex-) girlfriend dumping me, I struck up a conversation with one of the nice girls on the team...she's pretty cool, does lots of neat stuff that I like, but is moving back to BC in November, and I don't know what her status is. So that's hopeless. I am finding it difficult to talk to other girls without comparing them to her and deciding she (my ex that is) is better. I feel like I need to talk to more girls though, to try and see that my ex is not the only one out there for me...but the problem is, I don't know where to find any that I might be interested in. I work in a place where there are 2 girls for 20 guys...the choice is limited. I learned to Swing dance a couple years ago, and recently joined the mailing list for the U of T swing dancing club...maybe I will go to one of the events there.
Another thing is, I really don't know what to say to my ex anymore, when I see her online. We are definitely 'distancing'...and that really hurts. I don't want to drift apart. At the same time, since we are not together, it is probably better to do so. Makes me think of a U2 song..."i can't live....with or without you", except in my case it's more like it hurts to talk to her, but it hurts also NOT to talk to her. gah.
I haven't talked to my ex on MSN for a week or so...but last night I posted a funny pic of me from the weekend and she said (after I had gone to sleep) "hahaha...your display pic is...". So I am waiting for her to get back online to hear the end of the sentence.
Ok...that's it for today.
Saturday I woke up feeling pretty good! Went shopping at the market, ate some yummy mexican food, then went for a light bike ride in the Don Valley...good conditions, except that my knee was pretty sore (I've discovered that when I pedal my left knee moves from side to side a LOT! That definitely can't be good...gonna have to tweak my cleat angle on my shoe). Then I went home, ate some Chinese food (mostly rice), and went over to a friend's place to watch Elf (which is not a bad movie, if you can stand that dude that plays the elf...errr...Will Farrell..that's it).
All the rice that I ate Saturday night was in preparation for Sunday...There was a University Cup mountain biking race, and I happen to be on the University of Toronto mountain bike team. We arrived at the gym we meet at in the morning to board the bus, bright and early at 7, only to learn that the truck that takes our bikes up was only available from 9 AM...Budget rentals is a stupid company. The week before they opened at 7, yet somehow their hours are completely random and this week it was 9...not only that, but it closed at 3 pm on Saturday. Anyway, the bikes eventually made it to the race location, at Hardwood Hills. We were really lucky with the weather, it rained on us for most of the race!! it was just great. I especially loved the part about the mud, water and steam completely covering my glasses (which I need, obviously, to see the course), rendering it quite difficult to know where I was going. The other fun part was the loss of braking power...I don't have disc brakes so mud is not great for stopping. Loss of brakes and loss of vision at the same time make for a pretty exciting ride! (In all seriousness, it is actually fun!). I was riding pretty well for 3 of the four laps...I had a bad start though, since I had to go pee just before the race and when I got out, everyone had already lined up, and I ended up right at the back. After 1 lap, I was in 20th (out of 31), after 2 I was in 17th, after 3 I was in 13th or so...Then disaster struck: in a tight technical climb, my left foot caught on a log sticking into the course, causing me to fall over. That wouldn't be so bad, except that while my foot was being pulled back it caused a massive cramp in my calf, which slowed me down for the rest of the race. I ended up in 15th. After the race we all cleaned our bikes (and ourselves) at the bike wash station.
In the ongoing effort to get over my (ex-) girlfriend dumping me, I struck up a conversation with one of the nice girls on the team...she's pretty cool, does lots of neat stuff that I like, but is moving back to BC in November, and I don't know what her status is. So that's hopeless. I am finding it difficult to talk to other girls without comparing them to her and deciding she (my ex that is) is better. I feel like I need to talk to more girls though, to try and see that my ex is not the only one out there for me...but the problem is, I don't know where to find any that I might be interested in. I work in a place where there are 2 girls for 20 guys...the choice is limited. I learned to Swing dance a couple years ago, and recently joined the mailing list for the U of T swing dancing club...maybe I will go to one of the events there.
Another thing is, I really don't know what to say to my ex anymore, when I see her online. We are definitely 'distancing'...and that really hurts. I don't want to drift apart. At the same time, since we are not together, it is probably better to do so. Makes me think of a U2 song..."i can't live....with or without you", except in my case it's more like it hurts to talk to her, but it hurts also NOT to talk to her. gah.
I haven't talked to my ex on MSN for a week or so...but last night I posted a funny pic of me from the weekend and she said (after I had gone to sleep) "hahaha...your display pic is...". So I am waiting for her to get back online to hear the end of the sentence.
Ok...that's it for today.
posted by a bike rider in the big smoke at 5:58 p.m.
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