Frisbee and Biking

Although I've gotten pitifully little exercise in since I got here, I managed to find two events on the same day that would qualify as athletic.  First, met up with a group of frisbee players, mostly ex-pats.  I'm used to simply playing, running around with little warmup besides biking to the Mall.  But these guys take their warm up seriously, it was 2 HOURS of tossing, stretching, calethenics (can't even remember how to spell the word, let alone do them!), and drills.  Finally we played.  A good-sized group at a pretty high level of play, so I didn't get as much playing in as I wanted (I'm happy playing 4-on-4 and running around a lot), but I was very happy to be playing.

That night, I did a ride with Critical Mass.  It really didn't qualify as exercise, but it was very cool to be riding around Buenos Aires from 10 to 11 at night.  The goal of the group is to bring awareness to the public about biking.  To accomplish this, they carry a huge boom-box playing at full volume, and several bikes have car alarms attached as horns, so at any point they can blast out the universal "I'm somewhere else and you're trying to sleep but my car alarm is going off and making you think about putting a brick through my windshield" noise.

Once we finally got to a restaurant and sat down (around midnight), the group was nice enough, but I hate noise.  Couldn't believe I was part of it.  Doubt I'll do it again with the group, but riding at night is pretty cool.