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A ZXXX is the best option. 😁

I struggle with the same thing, Tim, and the timing/experience is very similar...glad you posted the thread. I've always been in my best shape when I had something to be in shape for. I've never been able to motivate myself to work out just for the sake of it...not for very long, that is. As I hit my middle age, I started to become hypertensive and my doc wanted me on meds...what choice do you have in a decision like that? I prefer not to have a heart attack or cause any long-term damage from high blood pressure but then it put me on a mission to get off of the meds, and I did. Well, fast forward though a couple of high-intensity career years and I have let the fitness part of my plan fall too far down the priority list. With mixed martial arts, I had a very good motivation to be fit. I also picked up significant injuries over those 24 months. I'm now contemplating going back to martial arts but this time with more art and less martial. Aikido will likely be my next adventure there. I have conquered my diet for the most part. Took a long time to adopt the mindset that food is not always entertainment, it is sustenance 90% of the time. 10% of the time (1 or 2 meals a week, typically) it is for the flavor. That gets me an 'A' on diet each week and is the reason I'm not gaining weight. A friend of mine put it this way, and I'm going to attempt to adopt this mindset too: Think of exercise like you do your diet or sleep. Would you plan to go a day without eating? Without sleep? So, I'm now reflooring my basement (which is a workout all by itself!) with the intent of having a space where it is workout only. Make it convenient, right in my face, and always available. (Not unlike your man cave!) I like the idea of putting the progress and workout tracking up front and center too. I think I'll move a whiteboard into the area too, great thought, tuffguy. My last piece of my personal philosophy on being healthy is this: I don't have to get an 'A' on every workout. I don't need to hit any specific goal except to get some exercise. I am perfectly fine with getting a 'C' on days where I am pressed for time or not feeling 100%, as long as I do all of the workouts 6 days a week for cardio and 3 days a week for resistance training. Showing up is most of the battle for me.

Darn, that was on my 2015 list to pick up, I snoozed!

AFR!!!

Not a phrase I'm familiar with.

No, it really isn't. What if I throw in some soft chamois towels that are perfect for wiping off the water on a freshly cleaned vehicle?

$75?

I like your garage. :-)

When I lived in El Paso, I delivered pizza for Domino's and several of the employees were triathletes & runners who had moved there for training reasons. Two guys were Olympic-bound Kenyans and they didn't deliver pizzas by car. El Paso was their destination because of altitude and terrain. They said running there made everywhere else seem easy since there was so much more oxygen everywhere else, and a few of them raced all over the world. Going from 80 to 20 degrees was likely a 10+% increase in O2. There are air density calculators that take humidity, altitude, and air temp into the formula, it is worth thinking about as you increase your personal expectations. (Turbocharging taught me a few practical things too)

A constant temp is ideal, even if 34 degrees. I don't like fluctuation above/below freezing.

Yeah, in fact, I just had it on the dyno and spun a bearing. I'll send the motor your way!!

The trike (aka TriXXie) is back in-progress. Mr. Wizard shipped a package my way that arrived this week -- the final pieces for the dry sump. More to come!

Is there an AT&T-compatible pay as you go plan out there? If so, consider it sold!

Classic!

That's actually pretty fast!!!

Update: I managed to climb a 5.10c in a couple-hour belay practice session. This gets easier as I get closer to my target weight and stay active. My daughter and I did the Devil's Lake trip and had limited success. Both of us were overcome with a fear of heights in that big open valley being 1500' up. We spent about 6 hours (92 degrees and humid dammit!) being taught how to build a safe top anchor and that was a great time for us. It's amazing how many fail safe features you have to build into what ends up looking like a simple set up: But when it came time to stand on the edge and set up for the climb, it was too much. The 20 minute bouldering up to the top was challenging enough. Their definition of "advanced hiking trail" doesn't quite capture it. Here's a picture I took as we neared the climbing site: I would need to drop some coin on some gear to do more...friggen rope is expensive! I guess it pays for itself eventually by not having to pay to climb indoors. I'm still undecided how far I want to go with this sport but it made for a great father/daughter adventure!

True... But your NOT supposed to Turn on a Dragstrip..... Sorry I just had too.... NBLB. Stoppies? Ummmm.... on a Dragstrip..... No. LOL. I totally misread that sport.

True... But your NOT supposed to Turn on a Dragstrip..... Sorry I just had too.... NBLB. Stoppies?

I never had handling issues until I tried to turn.

ID increases are easily calculated -- it will increase the speed in which the fluid moves by reducing friction and subsequent functionality of the liquid circuit. Typically, however, there are restrictors in the distribution blocks that make the ID a required minimum but increases in hose ID typically won't do anything positive or negative for you. It is worth looking to see if the hose diameter maximum even matters. That's about all I recall from my Toro era.

Found this link.

Ummm pics are in first post. And I have a pic of the size No, not THOSE pics and THAT size. Sheesh.

Suck, squeeze, bang, blow -- if one of those isn't working properly, it won't run. One easy test is to grab a can of starting fluid and open up the carb, give it a little squirt, try to start it. If it runs on the ether, it is a fuel problem. If not, check spark. And to do that, you remove the plug from the head, plug it into the spark plug wire, ground the end of the tip to the motor (you can usually just lay it there), turn it over. If you see blue spark, it ain't spark. Then it gets a little trickier. Hope the $.02 helps.

Not enough to drive a car built for a female college teen. Wait, are we talking about the Miata now? Big guy getting into a little car reminds me of Tommy Boy when he did his "fat man in a little suit" routine.

Need pictures before and after -- have to somehow show the differences in lights, please!