Sword Maze

I have been using Sword Maze- on my forehand with either a 729 hao shao (HS) blade (using it on the card side) or on a double fish (DF) chen qi blade (double sided carbon) and have been pleased with the balance between power and control. It has listed a 42 degree sponge-which is less than what I have been using on rubbers in the past. I have various euro/jap rubbers on my BH. Juic Nano Spin 2 on my HS blade (which I used today at the club), Tenergy 80 and Razka 7 on my two DF blades. Having the faster rubber on my BH side is a little non-conventional except for chinese players. I have been tempted to try bluefire M2 or T80 or tibhar evolution on my FH but I am way over budget as it is. I really need to work on consistency and game play with this current combination. It may not be the best, but it feels good and I can play naturally with it. I do have to adjust between blades, but that is more a function of the different BH rubbers.

A long ride

As I get more and more "afeared" of riding on the roads and want to ride more off road I am tempted to do an occasional event ride. There is a ride in honor of Tony Balboa, a local who was killed a few years ago. LINK Although I have not been doing rides that long and been either on the trainer or on trails or my short work commute. I have just become aware of gravel riding which also intrigues me. It uses mostly cyclocross bikes or other non-road race bikes and bigger tires. I first heard about it from another pediatric pathologist who has rode bikes with pretty good success for years. These gravel rides appear to be pretty big on endurance. Things like unsupported 200 mile rides in Kansas (Dirty Kanza 200) in which the first finisher takes 14 hours! Pretty overwhelming. Link to How Will see if I stay off the roads or give one of these rides a try. I still have never done a Century (ok, maybe a metric one but not a real one). Would be fun to do on one of these:

Back to the Blog

I think I may use twitter to link to my blog to explore some more issues that have been on my mind and just do not fit well with 144 characters. Particularly some thoughts on Christianity, theology etc. Looking back I am not sure why I have several posts in decemeber 2012-except they probably are old posts from my phone.