Balance point.

I've never been super awesome at wheelies on a motorcycle. And now at my age the idea of throwing myself on the ground for fun is less and less appealing. I mean, I'll take it as a matter of course in doing something and it happens, but not going in knowing it will.

So instead I will be perfecting my bicycle wheelies instead. As I kid I could ride a wheelie around the block on my bicycle. Today I'm lucky if it's a few bike lengths.....

Should be a fun diversion while it's kinda chilly outside and I'm inbetween training evolutions during the day.

-I do have pictures of me doing wheelies on a motorcycle and a pedal bike, just on my phone, not on my computer where I published this from.

Fun!

Fitness isn't really essential for my sport. Like bowling I guess, hahaha.

But fitness never hurts and makes the rest of life more fun.

And I think push bikes, to use the UK term, are fun. And if you're a new reader I was a bike mechanic for years as a part time job before college and later during a transition.

It's 68f during January, the sun is out and I have access to a bike. The fun makes itself!

Highest of highs and hardest of hard

Ahhhh, a picture of the time I climbed Mt Whitney; the tallest mountain in the 48 states.

What a grueling day it was for most of us in our party. A rowdy epic for sure.

Killing Time

Since I've killed all my social media stuff I'm still in the habit of being on the computer or my phone for like 4 hours out of the day but with much different things during that time. Eventually I'd like that time to be cut in half but until I make that happen here is how I currently kill my time while on my phone or online

-Wordfued game on my phone. I have like 6-8 games going all the time. I'm pretty good, if you want to play me it is "rowdstar" when you want to add me.

-Golf solitaire on my phone. Thanks mom.

-Duolingo on my phone. Absolutely the best language learning app out there!! I'm doing Spanish and Norwegian.

-Blogger app on my phone so I can more easily do this while out and about and at the spur of the moment.

-Shooting and competition forums. Mostly lurking on all but Enos, where I post fairly regularly. Rarely on my phone for this.

-Movie preview, trailer and spoiler sites.

-Genealogy work.

-Motorcycle news, racing reports and reviews.

-Youtube for watching about whatever has popped into my mind.

I swear I go to the same 12 websites for 90% of my traffic on the web. Notice nothing about news, politics, regular sports, music, fashion, travel, money and the other things I think are really big draws for people. I am considering adding Instagram back but I'm not sure.....

Two unexpected things today!

The first, I made a conscious decision without being under any duress or influence of narcotics (which I don't use anyways but it makes it funnier) that my lunch today will be an apple and salad. Oh and mineral water.

That judder you just felt? It's ok, the world is turning again.

Secondly, I received an email this morning asking where to mail my plaque from the Florida State USPSA Championships a few weeks ago. Evidently my 3rd place overall division finish/first A class was awarded something. I'm still very unhappy with third, but this is a pleasant surprise.

That will make going to the mail box in a few days worth the walk.

Monday!!

I'd change it from Monday  to "anything".

Match Win Video

So the rules radically changed in IDPA for 2017. This was my first match under the new rules. Benton Gun Club has an IDPA match the 3rd Saturday of every month starting at 9am. Come on out if you want to get started in a fun pistol match.

The changes made the shooting a little more fun in my opinion and not worrying about cover calls was a HUGE relief. I was first overall by over 30 seconds and I won every stage. I hope this is validation of my current training regimen. Check out the video and subscribe to my Youtube channel if you want to see more action like this!