so another week down! i'll post measurements & weight tomorrow..cuz i forgot to do both today..my bad! i did get up & ride 8 miles twice by myself this past week...i'm NOT a morning person so this is quite a feet for me!
it's been a rather crazy weekend...i had every intention of going for a long ride on Saturday afternoon even after Tasha had to bail on me. in fact, i was getting ready to walk out the door to go on my ride when my phone rang at approx 2:03pm & it was someone from the radio station asking where i was with the station van for the remote i was assigned to that was taking place from 2-4pm...oh snap!! so i said a few choice words children shouldn't hear & hopped in my car & flew down town. then i hopped in the station van & floored it to the Legends. this trip, if driven at a legal speed would normally take a little over an hour...i made it there in 45min. so maybe i didn't get any cardio done on my bike but my heart sure was pumping as i avoided the law on the interstate in a company van with logo & a huge mast antenna attached on top! this would only happen to me.
this morning i ventured out to meet up with folks for a long ride around the downtown air port. but as i was leaving my neighborhood, i stopped at a stop sign & let a truck turn then proceeded to pull out...but was quickly thrown off when a woman on roller blades started yelling at me, telling me i had a stop sign & should obey it! clearly she was in my blind spot & i yelled "so sorry!" but she couldn't hear me because she was angry with head phones on. all i could think was i must have gone back to the future cuz i didn't think anyone roller bladed anymore...what is this 1992?!
so that was a good wake up call for the morning. the longest i've ridden in one sitting is 12 miles...well, at least since i was a kid. we ended up riding almost 30miles today around the downtown airport...it was about 8 times around to get 30 miles in. we had all the bumps & cracks in the road memorized by the end & plus the pot hole that had hair in it..random. a few planes flew over me & Kristin as we were riding & i'm pretty sure if i hadn't ducked, one of them would have hit me with their landing gear...good thing i had my helmet on! the only hard part of the ride was the freaking wind! riding against it makes it about 10 times harder! but i didn't even stop once thru out the whole thing..thanks, Kristin, for falling back from the group & staying with me! i'm pretty sure half way thru my legs were just on auto pilot. who cares that i was lapped on a few occasions & i couldn't seem to catch up to a wheelchair rider...hey he had strong arms!! but at least i was going fast enough to pass some runners! i know to some people and other bike riders, 30 miles isn't a lot but its kind of a big deal for me so i'm just gonna enjoy the satisfaction of accomplishing this task for at least another day or two!
so that's my random weekend not completely related to the normal topic at hand but it's just another random blurp from my life so just be entertained by the fact that none of this happened to any of you in a 48 hr period!
good night & have a pleasant tomorrow.
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Amy...you made it further than me at the airport. And 30 miles is a big deal. I only rode for 25 today and thought I was going to pass out. I am very proud of you. Keep up the good work.
ReplyDeletethanks Tash! but you would have finished had your 17yr old bike tire not popped on you! can't believe you went back out & did another 25 today. that's awesome! we're that much closer to surviving in September!
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