UPS Useless Poor Slackers

NYCEWheels - agreed to split the cost of ship my wheel to me UPS Second Day Air for a Saturday delivery to my home. So I got up before 8AM opened my front door so there would be no confusion about if someone was home and waited. At about 10:30 AM I called Useless Poor Slackers and asked about my delivery because I was told I would get it by 10:30 AM and I was told that no they did not garunity when it would be delivered but that it was out on a truck and would be delivered, At 12:30 and 2:30 PM I called again and was told the same thing. At 4:30 I called and the young lady told me HO well it should have been delivered by now let me see if I can get a estimated time of delivery - a long time later she came back and told me that she did not know why my package was not delivered but that the depo was closed and I could expect my package on Monday - she said all this like I should joyful that I would get it Monday. Needless to say I was very very angry and I told her so - when she would not give me any more information I went through two level of supervisors but noe one would help me - one one seemed to care about the fact that I had waited all day and that they had ruined my day and weekend.

Good news

My wheel which has been broken and sent back for repair is suppose to be delivered to my home Saturday morning. I am tracking it and it is in transit. So I am really hopping to be able to ride this weekend.

First Friday ride

This did not turn out to be a very good ride for me - most of it was OK but not special but it ended poorly for me. I was having trouble keeping up with the group I was with and got separated at a traffic light. I tried to caught up to them but they disappeared and even after looking for them for 45 minutes I could not find them - I do not understand why they would drop me like that when I had told them I was having trouble keeping up and did not know where the stop after Art Space was. My fault I guess - guess I should not go on ride where I can not keep up. I hate being old and fat and slow! I let it mess up my whole weekend - I knew I could not ride any of the group rides but I had plan to do something solo but could not get myself out of the house.

Greenfield Parkway

Rode again last night - went to the Greenfield Parkway in Garner and rode with Winnie. We had a nice ride but I was so slow she was having to wait for me - she was very nice about it but is always brothers me when people wait - I always feel like I am interfering with their ride.

I only rode 7.9 miles Winnie rode 12 plus, my avg was 9.6 her was 10 something. When I turned to cut the second loop short I ran head first into the rain shower we had been playing cat and mouse with all evening, I got soaked, it is not a problem it was just interesting by Winnie doing the complete both loops she missed most of the rain and when I left to drive back home in Garner within .25 miles the road was completely dry. LOL

This is a nice place for trainning rides - the loop is a bit over 6 miles and even though I thought it was flat it is not there are three short but pretty steep climb between 5 and 7% and some roller - this also means there are some nice descents. There were at least half a dozen other cyclist out there and Winnie say sometimes there are a lot more. I plan to ride here more especially while I am trying to recover stamina and legs.

My Weight was 354.2 today

Turtle rides again and again

Posted this on the forun today -

Just to let those of you who have been asking. I am doing better. I still have a ways to go but it is nice to be better.

I did a short ride today - I still have a ways to go.

I will put more about the ride in my Blog.

Well I found my self back at the ATT today. It took every bit of will I could muster to get myself out of the house today but I did.. I was not feeling great but a lot better than I have been feeling.
When I first started to ride again I would go to the ATT because the trail was mostly flat and easy to ride . . .

Really tired - more later,

OK awake again but I still feel very wore out - I thought I would feel better after sleeping - I do not feel sick just wore out.

The ride was good but I had a good bit of trouble for about the first two miles but I felt better after that, It was hot but only 91 to 94 for the ride. Hot but not to bad for one - one good thing about grow up it south Louisiana. I stopped at the north end of the trail and drank and ate a South Beach bar. I then rode around the pedestrian mall there to see it and cool off a bit. I then returned to the southern end of the trail.

LOL - fell asleep while writing here last night - feeling much better this morning

I did not get any GPS data from my ride because I found out that if you do not charge you GPS even if you do not use it the battery goes down at least mine did. I also did not take any pictures - I have lots of pictures of the trail and there was nothing that was interesting.

From my cycling computer I know that I rode 13.45 miles @ 9.00 mph average and the ride lasted 1:41:50. Avg cad 46 max 87, I climbed 409 feet during 3.78 miles of the ride with an avg grade during the climbs of 2% and a max grade of 6%. The trail was i good shape and there were a few other people using the trail but not many guess it was too hot for some folks.