I couldn't train today if I wanted to...

I got home last night at 2 am, my flight was delayed and it was nice to sleep in my own bed. It was also nice to get back to my morning fruit protein shakes. At 10 am the painter arrived to finish staining the bar. 

I committed to changing the front look of the bar before I became "budget boy", as John Barclay likes to put it. I had the bar front redone by Henry, who is a friend of Johnny, a guy who works for me and someone I consider a good friend. Henry is a certified carpenter and for the past 30 years had constructed movie sets for many big budget Hollywood films. He's amazing. If they need the oval office created, he does it. He actually built the plane for the Amelia Earhart movie from photo's they gave him. For the movies, Henry shows up with his 53 foot semi trailer full of equipment. Henry finished the carpentry yesterday and had Rob, another movie guy, come in to stain it. Rob is more than a painter, he creates all types of stuff for the movies. For the Incredible Hulk he created walls that the Hulk broke threw, sewers, caves, distressed apartments and basically anything they needed. He also does great back drops and can make anything out of fiber glass. For one movie, the materials he used, alone, cost over $1 million dollars. The movie business is really slow right now because the actors don't have contracts, so these awesome craftsmen were available to do my bar. I just told them what I wanted, showed them some pictures of bars I liked and they went to it. They didn't need any direction, I just sat back and let them due there thing and they gave my bar a face lift.

Henry did a great job in building it and I was nervous about Rob staining it the right color, but he did a great job. The only problem is that the house stinks, it's toxic from the lacquer. Alice and I both were feeling sick from the smell. The kids are already legitimately sick. From yesterday's dehydrated run, my legs are still really sore and I was only going to do an hour ride just to loosen them up. But because of the fumes, and the fact that my bike is downstairs beside the bar and I didn't want to move it, I decided to push the ride into tomorrow. I ended up spending the day finalizing the races I'm going to do this season and then for dinner, Alice and I had no choice but to get out of the house. Right after we left we started feeling much better.

Rest day

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