Dreaming of a Life Less Ordinary

    I am not sure why I have not said this before, it isn’t a secret or anything.   I meant to tell you, but   I think got busy and well I never formally announced it.   Anyway, here goes…   I hired a cycling coach and she is awesome!   In January I decided to sign up with Jennifer Hoban to help me complete my goals this year of doing a century ride, and climbing Mount Diablo.   For weeks I have been saying I have been paying for harder cycling workouts and Jenn is the person who has been giving those to me.   It is really cool because when I send up with her I also got access to her entire team and a Facebook group called Finding Fast.     Maybe the coolest thing of all is that this pairs me with a former team and training teammate and one of my best friends again on the same team.   Rachel Greathouse has been working with Jenn for a few years.   Over that time Rachel has urged me to talk to Jenn and see how she...

  Surviving the Game   That is me up there or at least my avatar, and like most days on the Neo, I feel like I am getting yelled at by the game because I am not moving fast enough but at least I did get my avatar some sweet black shoes.  What I would love to tell you is that each and every ride I do on the Zwift / Neo is super easy and I do it without any issues and it is all bliss.  However, that would make me a liar, liar pants on fire, and I don’t want to be one of those.   The workouts I am doing on the Zwift / Neo are hard.  I pay for them to be hard.  I pay for them to challenge me and that is what they are doing.  I both love them and hate them.  More love than hate.  However, you know when I get challenged I can find myself in the bite me zone.  The bite me zone has me screaming at my laptop and my neo asking why on earth it won’t give me a break.  This leads to the Kona dog running around like a crazy dog because ...