{"id":22,"date":"2007-03-19T15:26:38","date_gmt":"2007-03-19T21:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/?p=22"},"modified":"2019-12-05T03:41:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T09:41:31","slug":"michael-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/2007\/03\/19\/michael-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael update&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to start cycling more. I mean, I already REcycle, and since I&#8217;m doing something again and never really started doing the first place&#8230; I&#8217;m all about balance. And not having a heart attack when I&#8217;m 40.<\/p>\n<p>It seems rather contratictory, considering the TW Viper news, but BJ Powers and I have committed to doing the MS 150 in 2008, and we&#8217;re recruiting. Yeah, it&#8217;s nuts (or at least crushes them), but it&#8217;s a personal achievement (and good story to tell the grandkids&#8230; &#8220;I biked 150 miles up hill both ways and crushed my right testicle on flat rubber &lt;snicker there&gt; tires on an Interstate you DROVE on&#8221;. It&#8217;s bound to fascinate them.) And as luck would have it, my company sponsors a rather successful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.team-csc.com\/ny_index.asp\" title=\"Team CSC\" target=\"_blank\">professional cycling team<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Team CSC<\/strong>: Tell us your qualifications.<br \/>\n<strong> Michael:<\/strong> I  let your computer work.  Sign me up or read snail mail.<br \/>\n<strong> Team CSC:<\/strong> &#8230;your CYCLING qualifications.<br \/>\n<strong> Michael:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/buycbdproducts.com\/\">https:\/\/buycbdproducts.com<\/a> have a bike.  With pedals.<br \/>\n<strong> Team CSC:<\/strong> Do you speak French?<br \/>\n<strong> Michael:<\/strong> Only when it rhymes with &#8220;69&#8221; or &#8220;menage&#8221;.<br \/>\n<strong> Team CSC:<\/strong> What your longest ride?<br \/>\n<strong> Michael:<\/strong> About 97 minutes.  And we were both sore.<br \/>\n<strong> Team CSC:<\/strong> It was a tandem ride?<br \/>\n<strong> Michael:<\/strong> Heck ya!  Can you imagine a jar of vaseline lasting that long?<br \/>\n<strong> Team CSC:<\/strong> &lt;befuzzled&gt; How do you stay on the seat with vaseline?<\/p>\n<p>well, I can just tell that converation wouldn&#8217;t go well, at least for THEM.<\/p>\n<p>so, as I get my 34 year old legs into shape, I have a plan of SELF TORTURE in store to inspire me. I hope to God Sheli doesn&#8217;t get ideas. I will NOT clean at ALL if she gets the whip out. Or if the kids all have tasers in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, on the Team CSC thing&#8230; I ordered a jersey from them. I found I get a 50% discount from the cycling company that&#8217;s behind the team (Riis cycling). Now, they just have to ship it.. from Sweden I think. Now, wouldn&#8217;t THAT be a sweet call for support ;)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to start cycling more. I mean, I already REcycle, and since I&#8217;m doing something again and never really started doing the first place&#8230; I&#8217;m all about balance. And not having a heart attack when I&#8217;m 40. It seems rather contratictory, considering the TW Viper news, but BJ Powers and I have committed to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/2007\/03\/19\/michael-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Michael update&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eb30-m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}