0430 fridays

For the past 3 fridays, I have been slowly slipping out of bed away from Maria and precious sleep in order to drag myself to VQ sessions - and it really feels good to be back. I kind of miss getting up so early (well, maybe not this damn early) and hammering out the last remnants of dreams to cadence drills, core workouts, and SE pops. I also missed making ride lists for my headphones. After reading some other blogs out there, I have a nice backdrop understanding of the various music that joins folks as they crush through the base miles of a colder midwest early training season. So tonight, after getting housed in Wii tennis, I decided to grab some new tunes to create a better playlist for tomorrow's one-leg drills and cadence ramps. Here goes:

Rays On Pinion - Baroness
Roots Bloody Roots - Sepultura
Bareal's Blade - The Sword
The Trooper - Iron Maiden
Wizard Fight - Weedeater
Lay Down - Priestess
Sea of Spears - The Sword
Cavern of Mind - Saviours
Honey Bucket - Melvins
Woman - Wolfmother
Epidemic - Slayer
Unsung - Helmet
3's & 7's - Queens of the Stone Age
Times Like These - Foo Fighters

to those that know a younger me, this may come as a surprise - but don't worry: last week was The Avengers, Black Flag, Blitz, Effigies, Husker Du, Articles of Faith, The Partisans, Youth Brigade, DOA, Antidote, Bad Brains - just name (quite) a few. So yeah, each week seems to have a theme. How do I figure out Cannonball Adderly, Coltrane, Chet Baker, and the other greats of jazz? Maybe it is all soft-pedaling, or maybe I save that for moments off the bike with Maria this Saturday. It is, after all, all about the options.