Going straight forward...antlers 5th thread.

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The kids were sick with the flu and strep throat this past week; stayed with me for 3 nights and I kept them home from school...spent some QT with em', and loved taking care of them while they were sick. They left this a.m. and went out of town with their mom. My son and I are tight! Daughter less so, but getting better.

Took a 52 mile bicycle ride this a.m. Riding has been to me what Coach's dog was to him! This quote really says it for me...

"Perhaps the genius of ultracycling is its supreme lack of utility. It makes no
sense in a world of spaceships and supercomputers to ride vast distances on a bicycle.
There is no money in it and no fame, frequently not even the approval of peers.
But as poets, apostles and philosophers have insisted from the dawn of time,
there is more to life than logic and common sense. The ultracyclists know this
instinctively. And they know something else is lost on the sedentary. They
understand, perhaps better than anyone, that the doors to the spirit will swing
open with physical effort. In riding such long and taxing distances they
answer a call from the deepest realms of their being - a call that asks who they
are..."