vigorous

Interesting/odd. I was just using Bicycling Magazine's calorie calculator out of curiosity, and they claim that 14-16 MPH cycling is "vigorous effort" and 16-20 MPH is "racing." I max at > 25 (up over 30 at times) and average 16.8 over my whole commute (dropped down significantly by hills and gravel road) and I don't feel like I'm even riding aggressively, I ride so that I'm just pushing enough to sweat.
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This is worth watching

Dylan Ratigan: the entire political, investment and banking system is corrupt and is destroying the country. Both parties were complicit in building this system over the last 20 years. Congress is owned and entirely corrupt. The democrats only put on band-aids to get through the next election and the republicans want to burn the place down.

As an aside, the page linked to here is the first major page I've seen with a Google "+1" button on it.
Dylan Ratigan, Mad as Hell: His Epic “Network” Moment
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Camera fail

It figures. I had a doe and her two fawns just sauntering down the road in front of me after I turned a corner on the way home this evening. They just walked along for probably 30 seconds as I slowly gained on them (having slowed way down) until the rear fawn turned and looked at me. I said "well, go on, get outta here" and they all just turned and looked at me. I gave them a tiny air horn toot and they decided to exit into the corn field. Then a few seconds later they decided to go to the corn field on the other side, the doe bounding beautifully up the embankment, the fawns following, as I held back the car that had rounded the corner behind me until they were clear.

The battery on my helmet cam died about 2 minutes before this. feh. Really anxious to get my savings built back up again so I can get a HD cam with bigger battery.
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