{"id":1915,"date":"2012-01-01T12:59:19","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T20:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2012-01-01T18:31:29","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T02:31:29","slug":"ha-im-back-i-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/2012\/01\/ha-im-back-i-think","title":{"rendered":"Ha, I’m back! I think…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m having a D\u00c3\u00a9j\u00c3\u00a0 vu… Oh yeah, I said the same thing back in 2006<\/a>. But that was when I took a long break from rock climbing and before I started mountain biking. This time though, it was after a long break from my extensive riding (mainly mountain biking) in 2010. I guess I just went cold turkey. We also started our house remodeling in August, DIY style. Not that we’ve been working on the house all the time — we were not. Busy with work during the week, and Erik regularly working one day a weekend, we’d be lucky if we worked on the house one day a week. But still, I would feel guilty if I went away to “play”. Long story short, I had been off my bike for a while.<\/p>\n

That was until… I told Patrick that I would be “back” in 2012<\/a>. What did that mean? I wasn’t really sure. Will I be back to doing those long rides like the 84-mile Tour ‘de Peninsula ride<\/a>, or Everything Skeggs ride<\/a>, or even the Death Ride<\/a>??? I don’t know, but I got so anxious that as 2012 was approaching, I got a panicky feeling. I had to prepare for my “come back”! <\/p>\n

So, I rode my bike almost everyday in the last two weeks of December blessed with the wonderful Bay Area weather.<\/p>\n

\"riding<\/p>\n

We got hooked on two fun Skeggs loops so much that we kept going back to them, which I’ve added to my Skeggs Ride Collection<\/a> (Rides 7 and 8). And the lengths were short enough for us to go impromptu when things were going a bit slow during the holidays. My interest about mountain biking has been rekindled. Yes, Patrick, I’m back!<\/p>\n

But then… I also just got back into rock climbing recently (in the gym mainly, but fairly regularly) after my previous partner Jeanne retired (temporarily) to have a baby. With a new strong partner, I also regained my interest in pushing hard on the climbs.<\/p>\n

Yet… the living room is still filled with tools (table saw, chop saw, jig saw, Skil saw, you name it). The walls are wide open and the cats have been having a lot fun walking through them. We probably should get back into our remodeling too; no, we definitely need to. I’m in charge of the house rewiring and still have half of it to go…<\/p>\n

Oh, and while framing, an idea suddenly came to me and we now have a short pony wall framed in for my “sewing center”. Yep, you heard me right! I’m going to have a sewing center.<\/p>\n

Oh, yes, I’m back! Back to what? We shall see. 2012 will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m having a D\u00c3\u00a9j\u00c3\u00a0 vu… Oh yeah, I said the same thing back in 2006. But that was when I took a long break from rock climbing and before I started mountain biking. This time though, it was after a long break from my extensive riding (mainly mountain biking) in 2010. I guess I just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mtb","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1919,"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions\/1919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}