I’ll hopefully be back on-line soon, folks. I’m am experiencing technical difficulties. My main computer’s power supply is dying a slow death. First it had trouble cold booting and now it just makes my computer lock up. At least I think it’s the power supply. I’m going to replace it today and hopefully that cures my problems.

As a quick update, training is still going OK. My last long run (which I’ve been meaning to post about for a laugh) and my last long ride are done! Now, I get to really taper (it’s hard to call something a taper when you’re still doing two hour runs and five hour workouts, but those are done now!).

I went to the Minnesota state fair yesterday. Lets see… I ate cheese curds, a papa pup (a foot long corn dog, basically), a three foot beef stick, a pork chop on a stick, some french fries, a cheeseburger wanton thingie, a deep fried turkey sandwich, an egg roll, a turtle brownie, a large cup of ice cream, and a Corona. And despite my attempt to kill myself with deep fried saturated fat goodness, I also got my cholesterol checked! I don’t think I’ve ever had that done before, and with at least some heart disease in my family as well as some folks with high cholesterol, I was a little bit worried about the results. But it turned out to be for nothing - my numbers were good! My overall cholesterol was 192, my HDL was 54, and my cholesterol ratio was 3.6. The lady who spent time explaining the results to me basically said I was good to go in all three categories.

“I have nothing to lecture you on. Just eat well - lots of fruits and vegetables. And make sure you exercise.”

State Fair Cholesterol Checking Lady

Lady, you have no idea… :)