Banana Man

At work I'm pretty well known for two things: riding my bike and eating lots of bananas.

Bananas are nature's energy bars; packed with carbs, potassium (to clear out all that nasty lactic acid in your legs), and even have a little bit of protein (really!). And they come individually wrapped in their own little biodegradable package.

I like having them at my desk because they're sweet, they're healthy, and they're a lot less messy than any other fruit (such as apples which tend to dribble their juice down to my elbows). So I've been know to eat as many as four in a given day - there is a pretty short window of time where they are in an ideal state between ripe and overripe.

I discovered a disturbing trend, though when I buy bananas too green:

Today's green-to-black bananas on my desk. (Yes, I finally figured out how to get pictures off my cell phone - hooray!)

They go directly from green to black. "Do not pass go, do not collect $200." They still have an unripe flavor, but get mushy as if they were ripe. I hate that. So I've become a very picky banana buyer. I'd sooner pass on bananas than to risk a green-to-black travesty.

Fortunately, the bunch we have at home are yellow and nearing an ideal ripe-ness. So before my long run tomorrow I'll have one (or two) and probably even have one when I get home. I'm looking at a good 20+ miler starting at "O-dark-hundred", now that I've solved the picture puzzle of my camera, I'll try to take a few pictures of random oddities to post here.