It is time to get back out there. I am mentally preparing for a training ride the way I used to prepare for a race. I am nervous, I am mentally going through checklists of what I need to have set out, what I should eat tonight, what tomorrow will be like, if I will get dropped and so on. What do I have to worry about? Nothing really I will be fine, I just feel like I am stepping back in when training is more than half over and I have less fitness than I can really remember. I feel slightly like an outsider too, no bike bonding time with my teammates in such a long time. Many I have never ridden with at all. Got to just get back out there.
I have been on the maiden voyage with my new rain bike Reid built for me. Nashbar aluminum frame, carbon fork and seat post, disc breaks, all black with silver accents it is good lookin' and the fit is perfect. My plan is to drive to the start, I never do that I always add my 6mile bike commute to the ride but tomorrow just making it to Seward with the team is going to be a challenge, then (hopefully) spinning back to Zoka's for our post team ride meet up. If I am lucky I will get back before they do after they head to Jones Rd and back. Ha! (that is a joke, I betta' be back before them or I might as well put on some tyvek, buy me a recumbent and call it good)
Maybe I will see you out there tomorrow, hope so I really miss all my biking buddies!
Friday, January 16, 2009
Saturday, December 20, 2008
White Christmas
Wow it has been a while. I am so far off the back cycling right now it seems pointless write anything. My rain bike is still not built up but with the current weather conditions it wouldn't really matter.
Yesterday the girls and I escaped Seattle with all the icy roads it took us 35 minute just to get the the freeway. Then we had slippery roads up the pass, cars spinning out, jackknifed trucks resulting in 30 mile detours and one very frightened driver (not me) going no faster than 25mph down all of Blewett. 7 1/2 hours later we made it. Glad to be in Mazama at the cabin with Reid and the girls and a very happy mountain dog.
Today we go out on snowmobiles to find a Christmas tree. It will be my very first time on one and I am the driver. Wish me luck!
Yesterday the girls and I escaped Seattle with all the icy roads it took us 35 minute just to get the the freeway. Then we had slippery roads up the pass, cars spinning out, jackknifed trucks resulting in 30 mile detours and one very frightened driver (not me) going no faster than 25mph down all of Blewett. 7 1/2 hours later we made it. Glad to be in Mazama at the cabin with Reid and the girls and a very happy mountain dog.
Today we go out on snowmobiles to find a Christmas tree. It will be my very first time on one and I am the driver. Wish me luck!
Sunday, November 09, 2008
Sunday
was a great day. I woke up to a clean and almost ant free kitchen. Odorous house ants are very difficult to get rid of. They love sugars and yes, my house is still stocked with Halloween candy from my girls that is now safely in Ziploc bags and more importantly not in my gut. :)
I played with Miley who was in need of some rough housin' then got ready to go to Emily's last soccer game of the season. The game was great they tied 1-1 Emily scoring for the tie, that's my Emmy! Then it was off to the pizza party, only bitter sweet part is that this was my last year to coach since she will move up t a level that I am not skilled enough to handle and I couldn't coach due to all that happened, the sweet part was Megan empathizing with me and how I must feel even though I said nothing, that's my Megan. I love these two people so very much and know I am so very lucky to have them in my life.
After the pizza party I said my goodbyes and head to the IMA (on a Sunday! 1st time ever) to ride the life cycle and do my exercises, it was good and I appreciate every drop of sweat and every sore muscle. A month ago I could barely get off a couch.
Next it was home to feed Miley then head to dinner with my good friends Shan and Jason. I managed to leave my keys in the house and realized it just as I shut the front door oops! Miley was very curious why I was walking around the house with her inside, "hey, open the door good girl!" Alas, she is a dog no oposable thumbs and even when she sits when I say "sit" she doesn't really understand English. Luckily I have a supper secret key just in case, this is not the first time I have needed it either. And no it is not in a fake rock! Dinner was great, Thia yum yum and the company was even better, I love these two people they are such a good couple and both such true friends. I am a very lucky person indeed!
I came home to my lovely girl and my guardian Miley, she is always happy to see me and I to see her. We watched TV for a while, bear attacks and how to survive, then headed up to bed. She is now sleeping next to me after getting her night time belly rubs and I am on the computer
that has taken up residence where I used to have pillows. I will watch on more episode of "The Office" on Netflix watch instantly, hopefully I wont fall asleep this time halfway thorough and wake up in the middle of the night with my glasses and the lights still on, how embarrassing!
Monday I will go to work and PT then see my team, many for the first time and then the week will fly by and soon another Sunday will be upon me, I can only hope it will be a wonderful as this one.
I played with Miley who was in need of some rough housin' then got ready to go to Emily's last soccer game of the season. The game was great they tied 1-1 Emily scoring for the tie, that's my Emmy! Then it was off to the pizza party, only bitter sweet part is that this was my last year to coach since she will move up t a level that I am not skilled enough to handle and I couldn't coach due to all that happened, the sweet part was Megan empathizing with me and how I must feel even though I said nothing, that's my Megan. I love these two people so very much and know I am so very lucky to have them in my life.
After the pizza party I said my goodbyes and head to the IMA (on a Sunday! 1st time ever) to ride the life cycle and do my exercises, it was good and I appreciate every drop of sweat and every sore muscle. A month ago I could barely get off a couch.
Next it was home to feed Miley then head to dinner with my good friends Shan and Jason. I managed to leave my keys in the house and realized it just as I shut the front door oops! Miley was very curious why I was walking around the house with her inside, "hey, open the door good girl!" Alas, she is a dog no oposable thumbs and even when she sits when I say "sit" she doesn't really understand English. Luckily I have a supper secret key just in case, this is not the first time I have needed it either. And no it is not in a fake rock! Dinner was great, Thia yum yum and the company was even better, I love these two people they are such a good couple and both such true friends. I am a very lucky person indeed!
I came home to my lovely girl and my guardian Miley, she is always happy to see me and I to see her. We watched TV for a while, bear attacks and how to survive, then headed up to bed. She is now sleeping next to me after getting her night time belly rubs and I am on the computer
that has taken up residence where I used to have pillows. I will watch on more episode of "The Office" on Netflix watch instantly, hopefully I wont fall asleep this time halfway thorough and wake up in the middle of the night with my glasses and the lights still on, how embarrassing!
Monday I will go to work and PT then see my team, many for the first time and then the week will fly by and soon another Sunday will be upon me, I can only hope it will be a wonderful as this one.
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