Waving Hello - July 7, 2009

I had an easier time waking up at 5:00am to go fishing this morning than waking up early for a big day of training.  That's just how it goes sometimes.

Above is a picture of downtown Buffalo from the direction of Lake Erie.  On Saturday we were fishing in Lake Ontario and today we were fishing in Lake Erie.  One of the cool things about growing up in Niagara Falls is that you have access to many fisheries that includes Lake Erie, the Upper Niagara River (above Niagara Falls), the Lower Niagara River (below Niagara Falls), Lake Ontario, the Finger Lakes, Chautauqua Lake and various streams all within 100 miles (and most within 30 miles).  For a quick geography reference see below;

Niagara Falls is just north of Buffalo and that is Lake Erie on the lower left and Lake Ontario on the upper right.  The size of these lakes are enormous.

If you refer back to the picture at the top of the post of downtown Buffalo, the skyscraper on the right is HSBC Tower.  That's where my brother is currently working and today, not only is it his birthday (happy birthday bro), he was up there working while we were down below fishing (it doesn't seem fair that he was working and we were fishing but that's how life goes sometimes...)

I know what you are saying, "Nice bass."  I caught my limit today.  I was holding it up towards HSBC Tower but later at dinner my brother acknowledged that he never even looked out the window today.  He's not that into fishing so he wasn't that impressed with my bass catching abilities.  But I know you guys are impressed and that's why I'm sharing :)

I was actually a bit sore in the quads from the criterium racing yesterday.  That's why I thought a recovery day was in order and I did some fishing in lieu of training.

By the numbers;

• 183.2 - today's weight (January 1, 2009 weight was 184.2)  Goal weight for 10/25/09 is 165
• 111 - Days until the Marine Corp Marathon
• 173 - Total days trained in 2009
• 27 - Missed days of running in 2009
• 0.00 - miles run today
• 11.00 - miles on current pair of shoes
• 966.25 - Miles run in 2009

Comments

[Jim]

funny about sleep.

I can get up at 4:00am to hike 2 miles to get to my favorite salmon pool, but I have to drag my ass out of bed to do a Saturday 3 hour ride.

Ha Ha Nice Bass, I just got it.