Powernap

Woke at 5am after a brief night of restless sleep. Dark, hot and humid. Got my gear on and got out the door with the sun around 6 and road my bike up to Nyack, a 70 mile round-trip. Got home around 1:30, with the intention of hitting up yoga at 2:30. Showered, got on the couch at 1:45 with the idea of chilling for 10 minutes, and then....it was 8pm. -sigh-

Drank over 80 oz of water on the ride out of a Camelback, and stopped 3 times to eat instead of the typical once on this ride, due to high heat. Ate a really good pumpernickel bagel and lox in a very suburban neighborhood in NJ, a little bagel shop that was outside of any commercial district, just randomly thrown in a corner of a residential neighborhood. The fact of it's high quality speaks to the probability of a whole lotta fellow Jews in the area. We can do without a dry cleaner or a grocery nearby, but we better have fresh bagels and lox at our beck and call!

BREAKFAST: 5:30am, smoothie, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

BREAKFAST 2: 8:30am, lox and cream cheese on a pumpernickel bagel, 20oz Gatorade, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

AM SNACK: 9:30am, cheesy poofs, 20oz Gatorade, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

LUNCH: 1pm, 1 slice streetza, 16oz bad root beer, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
At a place I like in Queens by the Triboro. On a plastic bottle of A&W Root beer designed to look like an old fashioned brown-glass bottle, there was a little call-out, "Made with Aged Vanilla!" It's unusual for a mass-produced soda to trumpet ingredients, so I had to try it. Same old corn-syrup sweetness, same old loud generic root beer taste....and conforming with the law, did not list vanilla as an ingredient, just "artificial and natural flavors". Hrumph.

DINNER: 9:15pm, big home made salad, sushi, shumai, seaweed salad, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5