I watched some of stage 3 of the Tour De Suisse this afternoon. Frank Schleck from Luxembourg won the stage, German Tony Martin took the overall race lead by a second, and Lance Armstrong moved up from 33rd overall to 21st.
Other than that, cycling on TV is about as exciting to me as NASCAR.
I don't know why. Maybe it's because I know about Lance Armstrong, Greg Lemond, Floyd Landis and that's about it, Maybe it's because of the way that cycling is presented on TVm Maybe it's because I had never watched a race on TV before, or maybe it's because I actually prefer Mountain Biking to Road Cycling.
Beats me.
I do know that a lot of riders do like to watch the Tour De Suisse, Tour De France, or Tour De whatever. But it's just not for me. I mean sure, I appreciate how hard it can be to ride in a group of people riding 25+ MPH. I also appreciate how hard it is to ride 100 mile stages, and I also appreciate how dangerous it is to be riding in a big group of cyclists the way these guys do. I appreciate the difficulty of NASCAR too.
Funny thing is I plan to tune in tomorrow to watch some more. I actually took the time to go to Versus.com and see what the leaderboard looks like (actually I just went there to get the info from the beginning of this post, but I looked over way more info than I had originally intended). I also want to see what Lance Armstrong can do. I know that this is just a tune up for him before the Tour De France, but he strikes me as the kind of guy who will just go out and win one of these races just because it is there. Plus there is hardly ever anything related to cycling on TV.
Maybe it is a little more interesting than NASCAR....
Monday, June 14, 2010
Friday, June 11, 2010
WIND
I hate the wind.
I'm sure that most cyclists hate the wind too. I would rather ride up a steep hill than ride in the wind. 70 - 90% of a cyclist's energy goes toward overcoming wind resistance. That's all the time, not just on windy days. Windy days just mean you are going to expend that much more energy in order to overcome the wind resistance or drag.
This morning, my ride home was one of those times of expending the extra energy. As I was leaving work, a co-worker said: "I hope the wind is at. your back!" after noting the direction of the wind I could only chuckle and say: "I don't think today is going to be one of those days."
Now I have ridden in the wind before, and it's always tough, but today was something else! Before I even made it out of the parking lot I had a serious headwind. According to Weatherbug, that headwind was about 20-30 MPH which is easily the strongest wind I have ridden in.
Normally I ride along at about a 14-15 MPH average but this morning I was struggling to keep up a 10 MPH average. I really had to lean into it. Now, given the fact that my commuter is a hybrid, I don't ride in the most aerodynamic position. I'm also riding with Panniers on the back of my bike and it's as if I was riding with a couple of parachutes attached to my bike.
I managed to fight along through my close to 13 mile trip. Usually, it takes about 50 minutes for me to complete the whole route, but today it took about an hour and 12 minutes. The wind actually added over 20 minutes to my commute time! I do live in a pretty windy area but, at least most of the time, the wind isn't as constant as it was today. I usually get somewhat of a break from the resistance. Apparently today wasn't one of those days.
My legs are reminding me of that ride tonight.
Where is that Ibuprofen?
I'm sure that most cyclists hate the wind too. I would rather ride up a steep hill than ride in the wind. 70 - 90% of a cyclist's energy goes toward overcoming wind resistance. That's all the time, not just on windy days. Windy days just mean you are going to expend that much more energy in order to overcome the wind resistance or drag.
This morning, my ride home was one of those times of expending the extra energy. As I was leaving work, a co-worker said: "I hope the wind is at. your back!" after noting the direction of the wind I could only chuckle and say: "I don't think today is going to be one of those days."
Now I have ridden in the wind before, and it's always tough, but today was something else! Before I even made it out of the parking lot I had a serious headwind. According to Weatherbug, that headwind was about 20-30 MPH which is easily the strongest wind I have ridden in.
Normally I ride along at about a 14-15 MPH average but this morning I was struggling to keep up a 10 MPH average. I really had to lean into it. Now, given the fact that my commuter is a hybrid, I don't ride in the most aerodynamic position. I'm also riding with Panniers on the back of my bike and it's as if I was riding with a couple of parachutes attached to my bike.
I managed to fight along through my close to 13 mile trip. Usually, it takes about 50 minutes for me to complete the whole route, but today it took about an hour and 12 minutes. The wind actually added over 20 minutes to my commute time! I do live in a pretty windy area but, at least most of the time, the wind isn't as constant as it was today. I usually get somewhat of a break from the resistance. Apparently today wasn't one of those days.
My legs are reminding me of that ride tonight.
Where is that Ibuprofen?
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Monday, June 7, 2010
Panniers
I recently ordered a new set of Panniers.
The funny thing is, I used to think that people who rode with Panniers were a strange breed of cyclists. I thought "What could really be so important that they needed to take it with them on their bikes?"
Then I started commuting by bike.
Now Panniers are almost always on my bike unless I am able to actually get out and ride my bike just for fun which is pretty rare these days. I would much rather use them to carry my work clothes, a towel to dry off after a sweaty ride, and any food I am bringing to work with me rather than stuff all that in a backpack and have a giant pool of sweat on my back.
The Panniers I am replacing are some Schwinn Panniers that I got for $25.00 from Wal-Mart. I have been using these for a few months now and I couldn't be happier to be rid of them. I'm hoping that with the arrival of my new Panniers I won't have to live in constant fear of the bags coming off my rack and getting caught in my spokes any more which currently happens about once a trip. This propensity for finding their way into my spokes has caused the panniers to form growing holes in them. These holes happen to be in the bottom of the bags which means they are just begging to dump my work clothes all over the pavement one day.
I should have taken them back after my first attempt to ride with them. I followed the directions that came with them which consisted of hooking some pretty suspect hooks on to my rack and strapping a couple of straps around the rack. Well I made it approximately 10 feet before the bags fell off. I put them back on and then they fell off again. Since I was on my way to work I had to backpack it that night. I did find a way to get them to stay on but I had to wrap the straps around the rack and then around the bags themselves. At least now they didn't fall to the ground, they just fell into my spokes! Good thing I don't have front Panniers!
Anyway, I'm pretty stoked for my new panniers which the tracking information from Amazon says should be here by the 9th. Which will be in time for me to not have to commute with them this week. I'll have to review them after I use them for a few days!
The funny thing is, I used to think that people who rode with Panniers were a strange breed of cyclists. I thought "What could really be so important that they needed to take it with them on their bikes?"
Then I started commuting by bike.
Now Panniers are almost always on my bike unless I am able to actually get out and ride my bike just for fun which is pretty rare these days. I would much rather use them to carry my work clothes, a towel to dry off after a sweaty ride, and any food I am bringing to work with me rather than stuff all that in a backpack and have a giant pool of sweat on my back.
The Panniers I am replacing are some Schwinn Panniers that I got for $25.00 from Wal-Mart. I have been using these for a few months now and I couldn't be happier to be rid of them. I'm hoping that with the arrival of my new Panniers I won't have to live in constant fear of the bags coming off my rack and getting caught in my spokes any more which currently happens about once a trip. This propensity for finding their way into my spokes has caused the panniers to form growing holes in them. These holes happen to be in the bottom of the bags which means they are just begging to dump my work clothes all over the pavement one day.
I should have taken them back after my first attempt to ride with them. I followed the directions that came with them which consisted of hooking some pretty suspect hooks on to my rack and strapping a couple of straps around the rack. Well I made it approximately 10 feet before the bags fell off. I put them back on and then they fell off again. Since I was on my way to work I had to backpack it that night. I did find a way to get them to stay on but I had to wrap the straps around the rack and then around the bags themselves. At least now they didn't fall to the ground, they just fell into my spokes! Good thing I don't have front Panniers!
Anyway, I'm pretty stoked for my new panniers which the tracking information from Amazon says should be here by the 9th. Which will be in time for me to not have to commute with them this week. I'll have to review them after I use them for a few days!
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Bike tour
I'm planning a bike tour.
It's not going to be anything like a 3 week trek through some foreign country our anything. it's going to be 3 or 4 days and maybe cover 300 miles max. Considering that I ride about 300 miles in a month, I think that this is an ambitious goal for a first time tour. I have a buddy who lives in the Bay Area who will be going with me. I'm not sure any of the other riders that I know would be up for something like this so it will probably be just the two of us. However I think this may be the best way to go since I think the idea behind a bike tour is not worrying about making anybody happy except yourself which is pretty hard to do when you have a big group of people going with you.
I got the idea from the most recent issue of the Bicycle Times. In it they talk to some of the staff writers and discuss what they typically take along with them on a tour. This story coupled with an article in Bike Magazine about a railroad bike tour really got my juices going about grabbing the bike, getting enough stuff for a few days, and riding as far as the bike will take me.
Something about that just seems like a fun thing to do. Being on the road with your thoughts and your bike. I'm the kind of guy who prefers to ride without headphones on so being in the middle of nowhere while on a bike sounds like it's something I will remember for the rest of my life.
At this point, there are no set plans. We are shooting for going in September when were planning on going up to the Bay Area so my kids can visit their grandma on their mom's side of the family. I think we will go light with one bike trailer full of stuff between the two of us. A few changes of clothes, some spare bike parts, some food for the road, a camera and not much else. We have a few different destinations in mind: Santa Cruz, Davis, Sonora, or whatever else sounds good to us.
I'll be posting more info as the plans develop. If you have any suggestions on touring essentials drop me a line of leave a comment below.
It's not going to be anything like a 3 week trek through some foreign country our anything. it's going to be 3 or 4 days and maybe cover 300 miles max. Considering that I ride about 300 miles in a month, I think that this is an ambitious goal for a first time tour. I have a buddy who lives in the Bay Area who will be going with me. I'm not sure any of the other riders that I know would be up for something like this so it will probably be just the two of us. However I think this may be the best way to go since I think the idea behind a bike tour is not worrying about making anybody happy except yourself which is pretty hard to do when you have a big group of people going with you.
I got the idea from the most recent issue of the Bicycle Times. In it they talk to some of the staff writers and discuss what they typically take along with them on a tour. This story coupled with an article in Bike Magazine about a railroad bike tour really got my juices going about grabbing the bike, getting enough stuff for a few days, and riding as far as the bike will take me.
Something about that just seems like a fun thing to do. Being on the road with your thoughts and your bike. I'm the kind of guy who prefers to ride without headphones on so being in the middle of nowhere while on a bike sounds like it's something I will remember for the rest of my life.
At this point, there are no set plans. We are shooting for going in September when were planning on going up to the Bay Area so my kids can visit their grandma on their mom's side of the family. I think we will go light with one bike trailer full of stuff between the two of us. A few changes of clothes, some spare bike parts, some food for the road, a camera and not much else. We have a few different destinations in mind: Santa Cruz, Davis, Sonora, or whatever else sounds good to us.
I'll be posting more info as the plans develop. If you have any suggestions on touring essentials drop me a line of leave a comment below.
Friday, May 28, 2010
Helmets
Should adults wear helmets?
I hadn't really thought that there was that much of a debate over helmets until I read the article above. I thought that if you rode a bike you wore a helmet and it was that simple. I did know that some people didn't wear helmets, hell my brother would not wear a helmet when we would ride together until we went to the Cycle Eastlake! ride and they wouldn't let him ride unless he had one. But my brother rides a bike once in a blue moon. That was always my impression of other non helmet wearers.
Now granted, the guy who wrote the article seems to be a casual cyclist, but some of the responders seem to be people who ride quite a bit. I just don't get why people are so adamantly against doing something that protects them. I wonder if these same people drive around in their cars without their seatbelts on? Some of the responders question why people who are in favor of helmets think that they want people who don't wear helmets to get hurt. I don't know that this is necessarily true but I do think that they won't feel sorry for someone who gets injured while riding without a helmet.
The only reason that I could see that people were giving for riding without helmets were "personal reasons". I have to believe that this is because they feel that helmets look dorky. Hey, I'll admit that there is no way to look cool while wearing a bike helmet but at least your dorky head will be protected. Also, it's not like anybody is asking you to wear spandex bike shorts! Although for some strange reason I have seen people wearing spandex bike shorts while not wearing a helmet!
This article also underlines a problem that I have with the media. They use statistics to support their claim but they omit the statistics that conflict with their point. The author of the article states:
"Context is important here. The most recent federal statistics on bicyclist accidents shows there were 716 bicyclists killed on roadways in the U.S. in 2008, or about 2 percent of all traffic fatalities. Certainly, helmets might have prevented some of those deaths, but from public health or statistical perspectives, this is a pretty low number"
Now if context was really as important as he claims he would have included all of the statistics that he was looking at. He also would have realized that while 716 traffic deaths are 2% of all traffic fatalities, they are a much higher percentage of the Cycling population since there are significantly less Cyclists out there than motorists.
The following information can be found at: http://www.helmets.org/stats.htm This is the same website that the author of the article linked to so he could show where he got his statistics from.
Bicycle Deaths by Helmet Use
1994-2006
Year No Helmet Helmet Total*
1994 776 (97%) 19 (2%) 796
1995 783 (95%) 34 (4%) 828
1996 731 (96%) 27 (4%) 761
1997 785 (97%) 23 (3%) 811
1998 741 (98%) 16 (2%) 757
1999 698 (93%) 42 (6%) 750
2000 622 (90%) 50 (7%) 689
2001 616 (84%) 60 (8%) 729
2002 589 (89%) 54 (8%) 663
2003 535 (85%) 58 (9%) 626
2004 602 (83%) 87 (12%) 722
2005 676 (86%) 77 (10%) 784
2006 730 (95%) 37 (5%) 770
From these statistics you are almost assured to not die on your bike while wearing a helmet. Think about that for a second, no matter how many total bicycling deaths there were in a given year, there were always less than 100 deaths from people who were wearing helmets. In 7 out of the 12 years that the study took place there were less than 50 deaths among people riders wearing helmets.
So, maybe those people who don't ride with helmets on aren't as smart as they think they are?
At least they look cool.
Some other food for thought:
Bicyclist deaths in 2006 occurred most often during June-September and between the hours of 6pm and 9pm.
Twenty-four percent of bicyclists killed in 2006 had blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) at or above 0.08 percent. This percentage is one-third higher than in 1982.
One-third of bicyclist deaths in 2006 occurred at intersections.
Don't drink and ride, Use a lighting system on your bike especially at dusk, and be careful at those intersections!
I hadn't really thought that there was that much of a debate over helmets until I read the article above. I thought that if you rode a bike you wore a helmet and it was that simple. I did know that some people didn't wear helmets, hell my brother would not wear a helmet when we would ride together until we went to the Cycle Eastlake! ride and they wouldn't let him ride unless he had one. But my brother rides a bike once in a blue moon. That was always my impression of other non helmet wearers.
Now granted, the guy who wrote the article seems to be a casual cyclist, but some of the responders seem to be people who ride quite a bit. I just don't get why people are so adamantly against doing something that protects them. I wonder if these same people drive around in their cars without their seatbelts on? Some of the responders question why people who are in favor of helmets think that they want people who don't wear helmets to get hurt. I don't know that this is necessarily true but I do think that they won't feel sorry for someone who gets injured while riding without a helmet.
The only reason that I could see that people were giving for riding without helmets were "personal reasons". I have to believe that this is because they feel that helmets look dorky. Hey, I'll admit that there is no way to look cool while wearing a bike helmet but at least your dorky head will be protected. Also, it's not like anybody is asking you to wear spandex bike shorts! Although for some strange reason I have seen people wearing spandex bike shorts while not wearing a helmet!
This article also underlines a problem that I have with the media. They use statistics to support their claim but they omit the statistics that conflict with their point. The author of the article states:
"Context is important here. The most recent federal statistics on bicyclist accidents shows there were 716 bicyclists killed on roadways in the U.S. in 2008, or about 2 percent of all traffic fatalities. Certainly, helmets might have prevented some of those deaths, but from public health or statistical perspectives, this is a pretty low number"
Now if context was really as important as he claims he would have included all of the statistics that he was looking at. He also would have realized that while 716 traffic deaths are 2% of all traffic fatalities, they are a much higher percentage of the Cycling population since there are significantly less Cyclists out there than motorists.
The following information can be found at: http://www.helmets.org/stats.htm This is the same website that the author of the article linked to so he could show where he got his statistics from.
Bicycle Deaths by Helmet Use
1994-2006
Year No Helmet Helmet Total*
1994 776 (97%) 19 (2%) 796
1995 783 (95%) 34 (4%) 828
1996 731 (96%) 27 (4%) 761
1997 785 (97%) 23 (3%) 811
1998 741 (98%) 16 (2%) 757
1999 698 (93%) 42 (6%) 750
2000 622 (90%) 50 (7%) 689
2001 616 (84%) 60 (8%) 729
2002 589 (89%) 54 (8%) 663
2003 535 (85%) 58 (9%) 626
2004 602 (83%) 87 (12%) 722
2005 676 (86%) 77 (10%) 784
2006 730 (95%) 37 (5%) 770
From these statistics you are almost assured to not die on your bike while wearing a helmet. Think about that for a second, no matter how many total bicycling deaths there were in a given year, there were always less than 100 deaths from people who were wearing helmets. In 7 out of the 12 years that the study took place there were less than 50 deaths among people riders wearing helmets.
So, maybe those people who don't ride with helmets on aren't as smart as they think they are?
At least they look cool.
Some other food for thought:
Bicyclist deaths in 2006 occurred most often during June-September and between the hours of 6pm and 9pm.
Twenty-four percent of bicyclists killed in 2006 had blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) at or above 0.08 percent. This percentage is one-third higher than in 1982.
One-third of bicyclist deaths in 2006 occurred at intersections.
Don't drink and ride, Use a lighting system on your bike especially at dusk, and be careful at those intersections!
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
What a week!
It's been almost a week since my last post. It isn't because I'm lazy, although I am lazy, it's because I've been away from the computer.
Last Wednesday started out innocent enough. I got up at 10 am because I had a couple of appointments at the community college that I am going to in the fall. One was for counseling and one was for assessment testing. I decided that I would get some extra miles in by riding my bike to the school for my appointments. It wasn't too bad but it was the first time I had ridden this summer where the temperature had hit over 95 degrees. At the time I thought it would be a possible topic for my next blog but that obviously wasn't the case. Anyway, I got to the school and I just had to take a picture of the bike in the rack since it's not often my commuter is the best bike around:
I met with my counselor and found out that I would have to take my assessment test and then come back again at 8:00 AM with my assessment results in order with help in scheduling classes for the fall. I had an hour and a half to kill before the Assessment so I rode over to Barnes and Noble at the mall that is right down the street and picked up a copy of Bicycle Times and had a chicken teriyaki bowl. I went back, took my assessment and rode home in time to get ready to go to work! I had hoped to take a little nap before leaving for work but that didn't happen since the assessment testing lasted longer than I had planned.
Since it was Ride-your-bike-to-work-week I was planning on riding my bike to work every day last week. I did manage to get on the bike to commute to work on Wednesday (which is my Monday). I put in my 10 hours on Graveyard and left at approximately 6:30 AM to ride the 18 miles from my work to the school so I could make my drop in appointment at 8:00 AM. I made my appointment and then rode over to the hospital to spend some time with my mom who started her chemotherapy treatments on Thursday (her third time). Then it was time to go home and get some sleep. Which I finally did at 12:30PM.
Wednesday and Thursday summary: 26 1/2 hours, 55 cycling miles, 10 hours of work, 3 hours of school prep, and 0 hours of sleep. But I did get a cool shot of a hot air balloon getting ready to take off while I was leaving work:
It's there in the background. It looked a lot closer before I took the picture!
Thursday I woke up too late to be able to ride to work, so I had to take the van to work. My boss emailed me a story about bike-to-work day and I said that I would be definitely riding to work on Friday which is the official bike-to-work day. I had to since I have a face book group about Bike-to-work day! After that is when all the real fun began.
Not too long after I got to work my fiance texted me to tell me that her daughter, from a prior marriage, was in the ER in Northern Ca. They didn't know exactly what was wrong yet but were running tests and were pretty sure it was her appendix. After a few hours of no news we did find out that she was going to be having her appendix removed so we would be on our way up north after I got off work.
We took a rental, the money we save in gas over our van pays for the rental and I don't have to put any more miles on it, loaded up the kids and we were able to get to the Bay Area around 5:30 PM. Everything went OK with the surgery and we were able to bring her home and spend some time with her while she got comfortable. We did get to visit with my Fiance's sister and mom before some sick members of our family forced us home.
We got home around 1:00 AM and the rental place at the Palm Springs Airport closed at midnight. So in the morning I got up and dropped the car off and rode the bike the 11 miles from the airport to my grandmas house where we left our van. I am so grateful for the bike. If I didn't ride it to drop the car off, I would have had to get 2 sick kids and a sick fiance up at 6AM and drive to the van with them and then have them follow me to the airport and then home. Not to mention the 30 or so miles of gas I saved on that trip!
Monday, May 17, 2010
Cycle Eastlake
Yesterday my brother and I rode in an 18 mile Mountain Bike and Poker ride called Cycle Eastlake. The ride supports the Eastlake Educational Foundation which raises money for schools in the Eastlake area in Chula Vista, Ca. Now I'm not much of a cause guy, but it is kinda cool to know that I can contribute to some good while doing something I love.
We rented a Nissan Altima Hybrid which was pretty cool because it had a push button ignition which was actually more handy than I thought it would be! The gas mileage didn't seem to be too much better than what we would have got from a regular Altima but I can't say for sure since I haven't driven one! The trunk was really small. But we did manage to get both of our Mountain Bikes in the car without using a rack!
We got to Chula Vista around 5:00 Saturday evening and decided that we would go see the 7:30 showing of Robin Hood. While we were waiting for the movie to start we decided to go ahead and bring the bikes in the hotel room we were staying at and get the bike ready for riding. My bike had a flat front tire that I hadn't fixed so I figured it would be better to get that taken care of right then rather than scramble around in the morning and try to get it fixed before the ride.
So I replaced the bad tube with a good one and started to pump it up. After about 10 minutes of trying to get the tire pumped up, I realized that the tube was bad. So we had a mad scramble to go find a sporting goods store that was open to get tubes. Since my bike only takes Presta valves my options were even more limited.
This is where I learned about the true magic of a smartphone.
I had never been to Chula Vista before in my life. So I obviously had no idea where to go to find bike tubes let alone where to find presta valve tubes! So I used my handy Droid Eris to look up some bike shops in the area (which were already closed) and a Sports Authority store that was about 5 minutes away. Complete with driving directions! So we went to the shopping center where the Sports Authority was located and saw that there was a Big 5 there also. We went in to Big 5 and discovered that their Cycling section consists of one little rack with about 5 inner tubes. Of course none of which had Presta valve stems. So we went over to Sports Authority and found the tubes with Presta valves! Saved the day!
The technical problems didn't end there. We were getting the bikes unloaded and ready to go when we discovered that the brakes on the bike that my brother was using weren't set up correctly. Now, the bike he is using is my old Marin hardtail. It has cantilever brakes which, in my opinion, have to be the least user-friendly brakes that you can have on a bike. So that means a lot of time wasted on adjusting, remounting, and having to pedal harder than you need to because they are rubbing on your rim. Anyway we wound up starting the ride about 20 minutes late and I'm sure we were the last ones to get on the ride.
The ride itself was fun! After about a 2 mile road ride to get to the trails around the lake we were in business. Now it is a ride and poker run so along the course there are stops where you draw a card to make the best 5 card hand possible. We were so late in getting started the people at the first card stop had left! Luckily one of the later card givers let us draw some extra cards to make up for the ones that we missed.
Oh, and another drawback to starting late is that you have to be careful of the riders who are already on their way back. The trail looped around in one section and you had to go back on the trail the way you came. It was quite a shock to be riding along on the trail and all of the sudden see 3 riders coming from the opposite direction!
It was overcast out so it wasn't too hot. Actually, it wasn't hot at all. It was probably about 65 degrees out. I took the picture above probably about 6 miles into the ride.
The trails themselves were nice. They were well maintained and clearly marked. They weren't too strenuous so the casual rider can ride them with ease. As a matter of fact, my brother, who hardly rides at all made it through the whole course! This is a guy who thought that the small wooden bridges that they put down to get over the watery areas were dangerous because he couldn't keep from going off the sides. When I explained to him that they were just as wide as the trail he was riding on, he tried to tell me that it was different because there was ground on either side. I told him: "Yeah, ground covered with trees!". There was one little creek that didn't have a bridge over it. My brother thought that it was the craziest thing in the world to try to ride through that. I rode across it and he opted to carry his bike.
We finished in just under 2 hours. Other than having to wait multiple times for my brother to catch up, the ride was pretty smooth. I almost qualified for a prize with the my poker hand too. I had a 10, Jack,Queen, and an Ace. I only needed a King on the last card to make a straight and I got a 9. Oh well. I don't even know what the prize was I could have won. We had some Rubio's on the way home and we got home safe and sound.
It was a good day!
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