105 Miles

Sorry, but no pictures with this blog entry.

Lots to recap though from my last two weeks.

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Two weekends ago I was a groomsman in my buddy Aaron Seifert's wedding. I had an awesome time!

For some reason, I was just on an emotional high all weekend.

The rehearsal dinner was great. Jamie Olson Seifert has awesome friends from college and I also got to reconnect with all the guys from Aaron's bachelor party. It was a fun group.

By like 9 pm I was doing a keg stand, and the fun didn't end until much later that evening.

I was tweeting throughout the weekend and ended up getting a lot of good-meaning shit about it! By Saturday, people were actually telling me what to Tweet.

I also learned that quite a few people seem to be reading my blog. Cool!

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The Seifert wedding on Saturday was beautiful. I got up at 8 am and managed to kick out 4 miles before my delayed hangover set in. I was ready to go though in time for pictures and ended up having a great night of dancing, meeting new friends and eating Papa John's pizza at 1:30 AM. Congrats to both of you Aaron and Jamie! Shout outs to Joel, Redman, Sharon and Heather.

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Just a couple days ago I took part in the Jesse James Bike Tour in Northfield, MN. I signed up for the Century Ride (100 miles) and learned when I got there that the route was actually 105 miles! Yikes -- that was 20 miles farther than I had ever been on my bike before.

Luckily, I immediately joined up with a bike club from Northfield and latched onto their pace lane. We flew through the first 80 miles and eventually had about 20 people in our pace line.

It was such a rush. We were in a huge pack going 21-23 mph most of the time and riding inches away from each other.

With about 15 miles left, I started to bonk. I had to drop off the group (which was by then down to about 6 or 7) and finish the rest of the ride by myself.

Felt really good to accomplish my first century ride though!

I zonked out that afternoon at Charlson's and then we went to Stadium Village to watch the Gophers game at a couple bars. As hard as Joe and I tried, we couldn't muster enough energy to stay out all night and we ended up calling it a day.

On Sunday, Joe and I went to Tiger Sushi and Norm Coleman happened to walk by us as we waited for it to open.

By the way, you all have to try the Volcano at Tiger Sushi. It's made up of strawberries, mango, various raw fish, vegetables and a great sauce. For only $10, it was the most filling thing I've ever had a sushi restaurant.

I went to IKEA and bought a TV stand in the afternoon and headed back home with hundreds of ideas running through my head about how I want to pimp out my new townhouse. Oh yeah, I might not have mentioned that over the last two weeks I've been moving into my new townhouse on Sweetass Lane.

I'm a homeowner. Zen minimalism is coming to Indian Springs.

Look out!

Enjoy the ride (and a good night's rest),
Damm