Pizza
Last year’s trip to Italy was wonderful. We intentionally avoided ordering pizza during most of our trip, but it is impossible not to have the occasional pizza. We loved the crispy crunchy crust of the Florentine pizzas. Back home, the pizza I ordered delivered was good, but had the typical bready even soggy crust that’s the hallmark of most “American” pizza. I decided to make my own. I found a well regarded, if small, propane fired pizza oven and a great pizza dough recipe. Over the months I’ve nearly perfected making an authentic Italian style pizza. Then I ran out of two Penzey spices that underscore that great pizza taste. I ordered Mexican Oregano and their Pizza Spice blend on 7/8/18.
Jess King
Peloton
Today’s scheduled exercise in self flagellation was a 45 “theme” ride. Theme rides vary wildly in difficulty and music genre. The live classes this morning were 30 minutes long. Peloton has roughly four thousand “on demand” classes. I selected Jess King’s Trap music workout from the on demand list. Trap Music? So I must have missed the 1990’s musically. From Wikipedia:
“Trap is a style of popular music that developed in the late 1990s to early 2000s from Southern hip hop in the United States.[1][2] It is typified by double or triple-time sub-divided hi-hats,[3] heavy, sub-bass layered kick drumsfrom the Roland TR-808 drum machine, layered synthesizers and an overall dark, ominous or bleak atmosphere.[4][5] The term “trap” referred to places where drug deals take place. In the 2010s, artists crossbred trap with dubstep to create trap EDM.”
Jess is a beast. Look at the size of her thighs relative to her waist in the photo above. She pushes hard. So hard that I hardly remember any of the trap music, just the beat that I pedaled to as I struggled to keep up. In overall leaderboard rankings for the class, I did “ok”. I finished in the top 1/3 in terms of output. In terms of keeping up with the class effort, I bailed; often. This was a kick ass class.
Tomorrow’s scheduled self-flagellation is a choice of an endurance ride or a theme ride. We’ll see.
Penzey’s
Off the cycle and updating my riding history I heard a car pull up playing trap music! What? OK, sure. That’s strange. I had been meaning to check on my Penzey’s order. We’re headed to San Diego soon and I hoped the order would arrive before we leave. It’s been over two weeks. The order status email had a link to track the package, click on that, copy the tracking number, *POP* UPS states “Delivered”. Oh Crap, check the date: Delivered 7/25! That’s today. The spice order had just been delivered courtesy of trap music. How funny. Pizza anyone?