tough times.

Right now... a really serious accident occured last week in on of our club races and a nice guy called Davy McCall died. Hit by a car from behind. Not good.
More info here:
http://cyclingulster.com/index.php?thenewsid=2852&newstable=news

I was going to race that night, but didn't.

To be honest, its taken the shine off of racing for me at the moment. We had a meeting to determine whether or not we would be running anymore races this year, and I'm pretty much voting 'no'. I think we need to take time and reasses the race courses and get over whats happened.

Tragedy is the only word to describe it.

:-(

i couldn't say it any better myself....

read
this..

i think it sums up exactly how I feel at the moment about this crappy weather.

on visual studio.....

....and the art of sucking donkeys.

older versions just are not good. no support for refactoring, i can't even encapsulate members.... arghh. no support for testing.. yuck. why on earth does it look in the GAC for assemblies when I've told them its in a specific location?

and .net 1.1.... don't get me started. No anonymous inner classes or generics.... bah.

Although vs 2008 is supposed to be good..... we shall see.
Bring back Eclipse a proper IDE and some java development! all is forgiven....

more on cameras...

damn things.
i didn't read the ebay listing properly... doh. silly me.
it stated.... 'sold as faulty as doesn't power up right'..... and my eagle eyes missed it.

so what to do? send it for a repair or sell it and get a nice new-ish one? dunno, man. its confusing.

it's also car m.o.t. month - suckage!

quick update....

its been a while!
been really busy in work this past while which has kinda impinged on the training business.... but even so have managed to get a few runs in.... still not getting the fitness back though :-( its taking longer than I thought to build it back up and my wind (heh) isn't what it was....

i'll get there though.

new bikey bits on the way too:
- canyon f10 2007 unibet
- centaur group with chorus levers
- brakes....

ah the brakes... I would like some blue frm cl2's but dam they are expensive but very pretty.....

back on the bike

back on the bike... properly now.

so far:
thursday : 20
friday : 21
saturday : 46 (hilly route up crumlin rd, sheepwalk etc)
monday : 36 (few lumps and tried to go full gas)

so not too shabby. trying to take it easy today on and will probably just put in the 21-22 to get to and from work. Then try for it full-gas tomorrow again.

a much longer ride planned for sat with rich and dt including buns. all good.

cameras

so I decided to get me a digital slr.
on recommendation of a friend I took the plunge and got a canon 350d from ebay... then a 28-80 lens... and the other bampf too.

should be delivered tomorrow hopefully, then we enter into a new age of hi-def pics.

in other news, I'm back on the bike... so far I've done about 40 odd miles in two days and its hard enough going as I'm finding my chest can't hack it so well at the moment, legs don't feel too bad though...

it will get better :-)