School days, school days

Kids-will-drive-like-fools days. So, school is back in session. It's no more apparent than when I'm leaving our development in the morning for work. We live right next to a high school, and this one is notorious for spoiled kids with nice cars and crap attitudes. They never disappoint during the first few weeks of school. It makes it even tougher that I have to basically do a U-turn out of our development into the daycare on the other side, forcing me to cross the evil traffic twice. It gets worse: two lanes merge to one right at the entrance/exit to our development. Today, as some nice person was letting me through, some little punk in a BMW (older 3 series) was trying to get a high speed award from the local constabulary in attempts to cut off the normal traffic waiting their turn, so I slowly turned in front of him forcing him to stop. He gave me a dirty look! It goes along with what my buddy Eric wrote about today, regarding parental involvement in child development. Too many times they aren't there for the early years, so it's hard to expect they will pick up the ball when it's time to teach kids how to be functional members of society. But I do try to be the adult that was around when I was a kid: involved in the development all kids around me. I believe that it does take a village to raise a child, but without the parents there it's so much more difficult...and futile.

In other news, I rode my bike at lunch today. I decided to follow my normal lunch brick/TT route of about 14.2 miles, roughly. I expected it would take me about 45 minutes or so. I finished...

HAPPILY! 14.15 miles in 42:20 @ 20.06 mph avg

This is about 1 mph avg off my normal - and under 2 mph off my best - average speed for this route. Not too shabby, and today I was on my road bike so I had much less aero advantage! Hooray for recovery, and the remainder of the tri season is looking promising to me. All I have to do is get in the pool and survive now.

Mendy, I can't wait for you to come home! :-) Grace is sooooo sweet. All the time. Until late at night. And very loud. Yep, extreme intensity sweetness. Hurry!