I really should be working right now. It's not as if its the weekend and I can sit around in my PJ's browsing the web all cozy like with my laptop. No, I'm at the office with various files open in the background that I should be working on. Instead I've been giggling delightedly over the latest posts on Fat Cyclist, a blog I discovered this week thanks to a blurb on one of my favorite sites, Pioneer Woman Cooks.

I am still very new to cycling and very rough around the edges, and it is great to read about someone who has a biking persepctive years in the making. Elden, the site's creator, has been blogging about his passion for cycling for almost four years now in a very funny, tongue in cheek voice.

So far I've loved his posts on "So You Want to Be a Cyclist?" in which he perfectly sums up the purpose of bike shoes- "...You’ll be pleased to know, then, that cycling shoes are in fact the most special-purpose footwear you will ever own. These shoes, combined with special pedals, actually lock you to your bike, making it so you theoretically can pull up on the pedals as well as push down on them. In reality, of course, their main purpose is to entertain your fellow cyclists when you fall down at a stoplight, hopelessly tangled with and pinned down by your bicycle...."

And I am absolutely IN LOVE with his (somewhat playful) conclusion that junk food is the perfect biking fuel. I totally agree that if I could rig a cooler up to my bike I would bring ice cream to every Saturday practice. I can't tell you how many times I've shelled out $1.20 for a Clif bar or some such and wondered if I wouldn't be better off with a $.65 Snickers...Of course it would probably melt into a peanuty chocolate puddle in my jersey pocket. A delicious peanuty chocolate puddle, but probably not the easiest thing to eat at 15 mph.

When the blog has failed to reduce me to a childish fit of giggles, it has succeeded in moving me to tears. The blog's humor is tempered by stories about Elden's wifes battle with breast cancer, which is perhaps another reason why this webpage resonates with me. He has been successfully using the blog to raise money for the Lance Armstrong Foundation for fighting cancer, raising over $97,000 so far.

It has been a joy to read, I highly recommend checking it out in your spare time.

This week we will be making up lost time by heading back to Malibu for 60 miles. I have been promised at least one big climb, but I'm not complaining. I have grown to love Malibu as an exceptional biking location, hills and all!