Update: The Week that was, from the Man who was not here....
151 Miles ridden since my last entry. 42% of those came in one ride. It has been a wild and crazy week. I won’t possibly be able to sum up everything
that has happened. I am not even going
to try to. What I will say is that I was
exhausted on Sunday, so I didn’t pick up the pen, and then work has dominated
every aspect of my life the last 96 hours.
We all know the “All work and no play makes Billy b a dull boy!” At least while being busy with work, I was
also able to make time for workouts this week.
Three bike rides: Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. One session of weights with Clayton. Total of 40 minutes walking with Shiner today
on my rest day. So, I guess all work and some play makes Billy be, something,
something, something.... who knows I lost it.
Wednesday 8/3:
The hilly hotness of a 21.8-mile ride.
I climbed from the south of Cross to Patterson pass. Man was it hot. Cranking out the bad gunky the day before
wasn’t such a great idea in hindsight b/c my legs were tired on the 3rd. The heat was well hot, and it made for a
really bad ride. Also, that fine Italian
seat continued to hurt my bum.
Saturday 8/6: There
is so much I wanted to say about the ride on the 6th, however, most of the
ideas and thoughts have left me. I do
know this, David Daggett, AKA the Beav, should be considered for sainthood. Man after putting up with me over 64 miles,
2500 feet of climbing and 5:51 minutes in the saddle, he really should get an
award or a medal. I won’t lie, if Wednesday
was hot and hard, then Saturday was just awful for me. The fine Italian Seat broke me. We talked about pulling it off at Mile 20
when we did a rest stop at Mi Casa, but I was pig headed and thought I could
power through. You know what comes with
a sore ass? Back pain. The Bite Me Zone. More Back pain. Also, for the first time since I started
riding again, I was wishing I had not.
At mile 30 heading out to Manning Road, I was toast. I didn’t know how I was going to make. I powered through. David stayed with me, although I didn’t
always make it easy on him to do that. I
was a bit of a bear, as I will be when I am having a bad day. I am not one who hides my emotions very well.
Although if you asked me, I would tell you I do, but I know I am lying when I
say it. Again, the man needs to be sainted
for putting up with an asshole like me.
In the end our 60-mile ride turned into a 64-mile ride and that was
ok. I did think about dropping my bike
at the 60 mile make and telling him to go to those and get his car and come get
me. I was just afraid he wouldn’t come
back for me. The firs thing we did when
we got home was take off the fine Italian seat and put my old saddle back
on. At some point I will burn that Italian
saddle and then pee on the ashes, it hurt me in a way few things have hurt
me. It made me question my love for the
bike. Bastard. I am really proud of myself for doing the
distance on a bad day. I know I can do
it now and I know I can do the climbing.
September 3rd will be hard, but we will do it and enjoy it or
at least enjoy the BBQ afterwards. I
know I can do it now and that is what matters.
I also am only doing 30 miles this weekend. I feel like my body needs a little break from
the long hard hot rides. Maybe next
weekend I will do 60 again, we will see.
Thank you again Saint Beav, I know I owe you and the nachos don’t make up
for it.
Bike the Bridges:
Almost forgot this. David and I
signed up for Bike the Bridges in Concord area.
We are riding 31 miles and raising money for a great cause.
We are The Evil Empire… if you live in the area and cycle or
cycle and want to join us come join the Empire there is always room for more on
the Dark Side. Que imperial march please
and thank you. Please stop by Saint Beav’s
(Below)
https://p2p.onecause.com/bikethebridges/david-daggett
Right now, The Evil Empire has as sizable lead over the rest
of the team in the fundraising teams at $3,495.
Let’s keep raising money for the Special Olympics and help a great
cause. David and I will be each riding
31 miles and climbing over 2,300 feet.
Donating really is the easy part.
Monday 8/8: Nothing
could stop me with the new bike seat on.
Immediately, ass pain gone, back pain gone. I cranked out 23 miles on Monday. It was awesome. It felt great to be back in
the saddle. On a nice soft saddle that has
gel in it. Stupid Italians and their rock-hard
asses. It was a good two-hour training
ride.
Tuesday 8/9: Another
1-hour ride instead of the pool, but this time without the anger or bad gunky
from the week before. I just knew I had a lot of work to do and couldn’t make
it to the pool. So, I went out and did a
nice loop. I felt really good. I didn’t mash around in the big ring and blow
out my legs. I ended riding 14 miles on
most flats. Good stuff.
Wednesday 8/10:
All the stress at work had been leading up to Wednesday and the two-afternoon
meeting I had. I was nervous. I never get
nervous about meeting anymore, but this time I was stressed. Probably snacked a little much over the
week. Must talk to my health professionals
about that, not bad snacking gonna gain weight snacking but snacking where I am
not going to lose and not recording it properly, so I am skewing the
details. Anyway… what is the best way to
start off a stressful day? Not a 7:30
a.m. work meeting but after that, is the right way, you go out for a 22-mile
ride and you attack hills and climb close to 1,000 feet over two hours. Hard yes, but does it put you in the right
frame of mind, yes. I realized that nothing I was going to do the
rest of the day was going to be any hard than climbing up Cross form Patterson
heading south to Tesla. Once, I did that
the mind was balance and I nailed my meetings and boom, Billy b wins
again. Really riding and swimming has
changed my life and my outlook on things.
I feel fantastic and I feel better after the working out.
Thursday 8/11:
No rest for the wicked. Another
busy day at the office, but there is a rest day for this wicked man. That day is today. I took some small walks with Shinner. She walks slow and I let her sniff
around. It is really more about getting
the legs moving and letting the lady have some time sniffing around. I am really tired and can’t wait to go to bed
tonight. I feel like I have earned
another good night of sleep.
So, now you are all caught up on why I haven’t been here. Working and riding leaves little time for blogging. Although, I feel caught up now. Tomorrow we are doing weights w/
Clayton. Saturday, I am going to sneak
out on the girls and get in 30/40 miles.
Probably 30. Then Sunday meeting
with Clayton again. Then we decide if we
have one more 60 miler in us and then we start to taper for Tour de Fuzz. How exciting.
By the way do I not have the best puppy ever:
Look at that stick! Good Girl!
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