Babe
It seems so long
Since you went away
And I
Just got to say
That it grows darker with the day

This album takes me someplace else..

Accident

This




...is what happens if you're observing speed meter on the bicycle instead of the road while going downhill, fast. And sand on the road helped too.

Fortunately I didn't wear a helmet, else it would be scratched by now..

Five little monkeys

Five little monkeys jumping on the bed.
One fell off and bumped his head.
Mumy called the doctor and the doctor said,
"No more monkeys jumping on the bed."

Breakfast

The omlete, my way. Seen the recipy on Oprah show few yeras ago, been folowing it since :)

When the corn is ready, it's time to harvest it..

3 hectars of corn, 10 people, 6 tractors and 1 combain.
Combain shreds it, 4 transpotres - delivering it home, 2 driving over it and arranging it in a neat pile, 2 helping, 1 drunk observing, 1 cooking.

In 5 hours time, the most important job for the farm is completed. During the whole year this corn will ve transformed into milk and meat...

Poli maraton

Poli marathon is the biggest cycling event for amateurs in Slovenia, and as I heard also one of the biggest ones in Europe of this kind. Since the course goes pass our house, of course I couldn't avoid it.

There was 6200 participants. There's just beautiful to see so many bikers at one place. And the weather was also sunny and very nice. Organisators did a good job, feeding all these people. They a bit exaggerated with fee, which was more than 20$. You also got a T-shirt, but I'm not very excited about cycling around advertising a sausage.. Well, we even got a medal at the end..



Today my legs are sore and I can hardly walk, because I was pedaling like crazy, maintaining speed at about 30 km/h most of the time on straight roads. Which is not so easy at all considering the course was 65 km long and considering that my bicycle is mountain bike with wide wheels, not optimum for such paved road, and this way alot of energy goes in vain comapring to specialised racing bikes..

Here's some snapshots, of not such good quality, taken with my phone:


Bikers gathering at end of the race..

Guys wearing the Poli shirt

One of the many after marathon parking spaces

Foooood

Crowd gathering in a tent after tha marathon

Conclusion: The even was extra nice. If there's a chance I'll definitely go next year again. I heard the rumors they're preapring even a longer course for well prepared cyclers, 100km long. Good motivation to train more.. And I'm still searching some fotos taken from helicopter from above. It must have been a great view at the start of the event.

And here's the schema of the course:



More photos can be found here and here and here and here and here, and a video here.

Flickr

Excellent photo sharing thing from Yahoo!.

Plenty of features, very nice design, many easy ways to upload, organise, share and do whatever you would expect from an online gallery. And all for free.

My gallery: http://www.flickr.com/photos/prostoborut/
*if you want to see my private photos, you have to be my friend :)

Tour d'slovenske gorice (I wish)

I put on my cycling pants, tuck in my white undershirt, put on my cycling top over it. I put my phone in my back pocket, plug in the earphones to it, lay the earphoes cable under the shirt, and switch on Radio SI. It is 6PM, I'm thinking if I go now.. after 2 hours it still won't be too cold, so it's ok. I take the helmet, go in front of the mirror, adjust it, take some money. In my mind I'm deciding which course will I take today. I feel kinda lazy and I don't feel like too much hills. I'm thinking 30, 35 kilometers.

I go to the garage and... NO BIKE! What? Where is it? oh.. my brother! Damn. I call him. The phone rings in his room. DAMN!

And what am I gonna do now??!