Planet Earth

There's nothing much going on for training right now, except I'm approaching full panic mode as our cycling trip to mountainous Asheville, NC is looming large. The swollen knee from volleyball is about 90% and should be back to normal for the last two games Tuesday and Wednesday night. Our team captain brought my free duffle bag to me from the "C" city league, emblazoned with graphics declaring us 2006-2007 champions. It's pretty nice, but smells funny. Since we'll be playing the "A" and "B" league champions and by all rights should get our arses kicked, it's likely that the bag is the end of the free schwag for this season.

On a side note, if you haven't seen it already, you owe it to yourself to tune in to the Discovery Channel and watch the 11-part series "Planet Earth" that premiered last night. They're repeating the episodes frequently, so check them out. The ground-breaking new camera technology will leave you staring in awe at your television. Watching a snow leopard pursue a mountain goat at high speed along death-defying vertical rock faces is just one of the many first-time-ever-filmed events that will take your breath away and leave you amazed at the diversity in life, weather, water, and earth on this little blue spaceship we call home.