Lauren’s Beach House (Day 1)
Apr 3rd
**copied from andyreagan.wordpress.com where I posted on Saturday
Hey so I can’t get onto AndyReagan.com with the phone right now (I need to go change a setting and don’t have internet lol)…so here goes my first post with the phone!
This weekend Lauren invited me to come to her beach house (thanks Lauren!) and it has been really fun so far. Since typing on the touchscreen is not my favorite thing either haha here’s a list of some of the things we’ve got to try:
-spend lots of time together on the 6 hour ride haha
-i tried oyster, crab cakes, mahi mahi, and I’m sure some other seafood at dinner Friday night and it was all really good, thanks for the dinner Lauren grandparents!
-got buried in the sand today by Lauren haha
-swam (froze) in the 50 degree ocean in April…
-saw a huge pack of dolphins!!! had to be like 15, and I couldve swam right out to them they were so close
-walked around the south shore of the island which was fun
-tried a bunch more foods tonight and am drinking sweet tea, my southern roots makin a comeback I guess lol
-stayed undefeated in games at the beachhouse, winning rummikub, hand and foot with Lauren, against Lauren in connect four (although she beat me twice…so I guess not undefeated…she thinks that I let her win, but I didn’t…but if she thinks I did then ill maintain that I am undefeated lol), and I taught Lauren how to play chess haha
-and just hanging out on the beach was sweet, I think a stogie wouldve perfected it haha jk
and here’s some pics I took!
think I deleted a couple by accident haha idk…anyway thanks for reading!
Below the pier
My New Haircut!
Apr 2nd
So clippers met hair, and I decided to finally cut off my long hair. I’m pretty happy with the decision, washing it is SOO much better (I don’t really have to) and it’s not in my eyes! Still wish I could flip a switch between long and short, but don’t we all…
I’ll let the pictures do the talking:
Before.
During. (old man hair lol)
After!
And then after a few days it always looks a little better than fresh from the clippers, and this is the hard earned shirt that you can read about in the previous post!
And after a day, in my hard earned VT Triathlon shirt!
And somehow in the two hours I spent outside yesterday I got fried, it was nice though, our professor in ES let us have discussion outside in the perfect sunny and 80F weather.
And my sunburn from 2 hours Thursday. Got your tickets? Haha...
I’m trying out the scheduled publish feature, and so this should be going up at 11:00 and I’ll be on the way to Lauren’s beach house for the weekend!
New goal
Since I’m already 2 for 2, I’m going to try to blog everyday this month!! Hopefully I don’t run out of interesting things to day…or have I already?
April Fools!
Apr 1st
So, I got pretty owned for April fools…
I was up late at 2am finishing an essay, and Chris Brown sent out an email to the listserv saying that he was tired of having all this extra triathlon team clothing, and was just putting the whole box outside, first come first serve.
Desperately looking for a break from the computer screen, I hopped on my bike and rode the two miles out to his house. It was pitch black, and a crisp but warm night, without a car in sight. The ride was really nice.
When I got there, I found a giant cardboard box with a flap on the front, labeled “Free Swag” and so I opened it, to find a DEAD ANIMAL.
Luckily, Chris heard me and came out, and I had brought his bibs so I gave them to him. He laughed a little, as I was the first person to come at 2am haha, and out of sympathy, ended up giving me a shirt. Wearing the shirt today, I convinced two people that there was still free stuff and to go check it out haha.
Wednesday Worlds
In case you’ve never heard, every Wednesday (except winter) the Blacksburg and VT cycling community comes together for a mock race ride at 5:30! It’s race pace, which is crushing when the likes of John Delong (ex-pro) is hitting it hard. But I went to give it a try, my knee was feeling good again, after going on a hilly ride with Greg Pfister Tuesday.
The ride started out good, I was wearing the full Tech kit, which had come in at 3PM! The group only half made it through a stop-light, and the other half just blew it except for me and two other people who put on the brakes…so even before the ride we had to TT up to the group.
The ride splits into two and the “b” group gets a 5 minute head start on the “a” group. I rode with the b’s and it was too fast for a lot of people who dropped off, but we got a pretty solid paceline going and although I tried to speed it up, we only held a pretty moderate pace. I did a pretty solid share of work, more than i ever do in real races, and didn’t realize that there was a sprint at the end so I just rolled the midway sprint in 4th haha. At which point, we turned around, and had actually beat the a’s there!!
After the A’s got there, this guy Andrew and Zach Morry rode off, and I sprinted up to them, and then it was just us and Nick Shoemaker off to the races to the finish on the way back! It was super fast, I pulled super hard, and this part was a lot of fun. I didn’t they were going to catch us at all it took so long, we stayed out for like 10 miles, and finally Reid blew by us. I put the hammer down and chased down Reid, at which point Andrew attacked and my legs were doneski. We were at the base of Harding by that point, and I was cooked from being in the break so long…so I just took it real easy up the hill, although my knees starting hurting bad about halfway up the hill.
I overdid it a little I think, but don’t think I’ve ever rode much harder, and it was a great workout!
A new mini-pledge
So another thing that I’ve noticed is that I’ve become really skinny from all this cycling business, and that’s really my natural build…so I started on Wednesday my goal of DOING A PUSHUP FOR EVERY MILE I RIDE. That was 40 pushups on Wedensday, and the results aren’t huge yet, but it’ll be a good goal for this summer when I’m doing 100 mile days haha.
I’ve also unsuccessfully tried to go to bed at 12 every night this week….very unsuccessfully and with a test tomorrow that I know none of, and just got an email saying he will not be giving us any formulas on, doesn’t look like I’ll be getting my 8 hours tonight either.
Lots of other stuff going on, but it’s hard to type up my life lol! I’m going to try to post every day this month though!