Wheelie Bins

Have I mentioned I love wheelie bins?  I hire one, and own three.  I purchased two off a guy at work years ago (as you do!), and inadvertently stole one, although I actually ended up making a payment for it, so I don't think that can be classed as theft then eh?!  Or maybe responsible theft!

I have mentioned I love gardening?  Hence it follows I love wheelie bins.  I also love the "tip", although while I haven't had a car, I've had to rely on the wheelie bins. Tomorrow is the official wheelie bin day.  Today has been spent filling up  2 wheelie bins (one the regular one, the other a pay as you go one).  I use the other two for compost.  So, a "gardening day".  But not of the Correctional variety.  I'm waiting for the contract paperwork to come through (and on this occassion trusting in the slowness of the 'HR department' ) to allow me to have a couple of days to catch up on my gardening and a few other stuff I need to attend to! "Being on the road" at the weekends eats into my gardening time - although when I get "meaner, leaner, and faster", it may do so less.  Or, hopefully, I'll be able to balance gardening and cycling a little better.  At the moment gardening is coming second to cycling which means my garden post spring is rampant.  Rampant.   I like that word which is why I repeated it.    That's how I'd like my life to be, rampant.  Full of growth and no holding back...

Massive sleep in again today.  Slept in until noonish - after getting up and then going back to bed.  What's with that?  My body is not tired from the ride yesterday - or maybe that's because I slept it off?

Next Saturday or Sunday I will aim for 130 or 140km and then "taper off" - although I don't think I've peaked yet! I still have a long way to go until I will peak.  It's not going to happen before Taupo, at least in terms of the wider "journey".   I'm viewing Taupo though as a significant milestone in terms of good foundations being met.

I am concerned about maintaining the speed I need on Taupo day,  accounting for a few rest and water breaks, to come in under the 8 hour mark.  I'll just need to work out the segments of the ride down into what times I need to achive for each.  I think overall my riding was better yesterday, than at Whitemans, so I'll just have to hope that the few improvements I can make will keep me within the 8 hour mark.

Eating: Home grown grapefruit - from my young grapefruit plant, which is why this excites me, and is worthy of note.

Listening to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtMhtMc1GW8&NR=1
And here, I post for you a thing of beauty - although not as beautiful as my first flush roses: