Beer Drinker's Appreciation Society--Always Open (Page 18)

Originally posted by nicole14e Welcome Ryan! We are happy to have you! Any questions you may have, ask away! I like "here beer." I might steal that I recently discovered I love stouts and porters as well. Always thought they would be too heavy but they are SO YUMMY. Had a chocolate PB recently that was basically an alcoholic milkshake.

Normally don't do a stout either, but tried this last week:

Definitely a here beer as got it in a cafe 0.5 miles from mine AND the brewery is only 5 miles away and yes it was good!

Yay! My side of the pond Holler on here or pm's if you want some ideas aside from drink Guinness when you are here!

LOVE the idea of weekly beers Also your marathon is on my birthday so yay!

Hey, folks.  Been off the grid (again) for the last 3-4 weeks traveling for work and dealing with all that is involved with my wife's FIL passing.  Hopefully life should get its act together here.  No work travel on the books for a while.  Like everyone - REALLY sick of winter.

I've been loosely training...mostly cycling and yoga at this point.

@Andrew - glad to hear it's nothing serious but I hope they figure it out so you have piece of mind; I've dealt with some weird stuff going on in my chest over the years which we found out was more reflux than heart-related (though I do have the athlete's heart flutter and hardening of the heart walls TMI )

@Gretchen - glad the butt is OK! 

@John - your foray into self maintenance is admirable - I'm one of those people where even if I do something small like change a cassette (or even a tube after a flat) I'm afraid the bike is going to disintegrate around me LOL

And a big belated welcome to Ryan (I like "here beer" too - there's a new brewery that opened about a mile from my house that I want to try out).

Best of luck bulfrog! Also so sorry about the shooting in Christchurch. Thoughts out to you and your country. 

I had Guinness cake yesterday after a ride - quite why I though going out just after a hale storm, whilst it was sleeting, on muddy tracks, straight up a steep hill with no warm up, and then along more mud, up horribly steep canal bridges, all on my road bike seemed a good idea! 

Anybody got a spare bit of brain to donate?!? 

On the good news front I did my furthest ride this year (only 12.55 miles...short for most of you!!!!) and realised that only eating a small brekkie and a decent sized dinner is not enough the day before! Plus i might get to indulge in some maintenance like firebert  - pats fans fix bikes! Think I'll need some new brake pads after the accidental exfoliation yesterday! 

Poole's Island Brewing Company - they're located right off Route 43 towards Martin State Airport.  They JUST opened like a week ago so I doubt he's been there yet.

Wow - tons going on!  Glad so many of you are starting to find the first signs of spring and getting outside again!

Jenn - always good to hear from you.  I have no idea how I would survive never mind have a workout schedule if I was in a hotel room.  Props!

Andrew - sorry about the chest tightness situation.  You've done the right thing and you will get it figured out one way or another.

Gretchen - you deserve a rest week!  Good luck with the surgery and recovery later this week!

Mike - good to hear from you too!  Good luck in getting back into the workout schedule.  It seems like spring is happening fast, Nicole was out playing beach v-ball.  You know on the actual beach.

Sappho - you're mad!  I don't even like to ride in rain never mind sleet and hail!  Sorry for the wipeout (though I will have to use the term 'accidental exfoliation).  Check out SwissStop brake pads for replacements.  There's another brand too that I forget but they are better than the regular Shimano stuff.

My workouts - after my nearly 40 mile ride Saturday, (during which I had to stop at one point, take out one of my insoles, and carry it in my jersey pocket due to a severe hotspot on my foot - happen to anyone else?) - I managed my longest run of the year yesterday, at 7 miles.  Was worried about doing a long run after such a long ride but then I thought of all the iron-distance people for whom a 40 mile ride and 7 mile run would have been Tuesday morning's brick workout, with a 3k yd swim scheduled for Tuesday night.  :D  I'm glad I went out, weather was perfect (like 55 deg and cloudy) and I tried out a new route which I rather liked, fewer road crossings.  I managed to keep pace from mile 1 all the way to mile 7, which for me is almost unheard of unless I start out really slow.  

I'm happy with how my fitness is coming along, just need to figure out a race calendar..  It's tough here, there is zero in the heat of summer so there's like a spring race season (March and April) and a fall race season (OCtober and November), and I'm just not used to planning my calendar that way.  It's usually like 5k/10k maybe a duathlon in the spring, tris over the summer, and longer road races in the fall.  

Beer - I'm trying to justify a beer store trip, they got their shipment of Kentucky Breakfast Stout in.  They also have some new stuff from Victory and Bells that I want to try out.  The issue is that the KBS is $28 for 4/12 oz bottles....  I love this beer, I don't know if I can justify the cost though, especially while buying other stuff...

Didn't wipe out, fortunately! Was just all the grime/grit that has probabaly aged my cassette/pads by about a year! lol!

Sounds great!  Wouldn't mind doing a Gran Fondo type bike event as well.

So it looks like I might need a 10 miler or HM between now and October 9th for corral placement for the 2020 Dopey Challenge.  Haven't signed up for the Dopey yet but I want to, will just depend on family agreement.  Oct 9th is the deadline for posting a time for corral assignment.  Haven't had too much luck so far in finding an actual (non beach, non trail, actual USAT certified) 10 miler or HM in FL before Oct 9th....  So if you see anything let me know!

Nicole almost forgot - I'm jrgiza on Untappd, expect an invite soon.