Dreaming of a Life Less Ordinary

  I CAN’T RIDE: 55     OH, WAIT YES, I CAN!     ALL RIGHT! ALL RIGHT!! ALL RIGHT!!!   Last week was a tough week.   Bike accident. Headaches.   Getting yelled at by doctors.   Trips to the hospital for cat-scans.   More headaches.   Stiff neck.   Oh, and to top it all off it was the last week of the fiscal quarter and that is always fun.   So, why not cap off a shitty week with something epic, like a 55-mile bike ride with buddy the Beaver.     Now if you ask that pesky Ole Beav about the ride, he will tell you that it was only 54.58… Him and his silly Strava app trying to bring me down, but I don’t think so, nothing could bring me down.   Plus, see the Cateye read out below.   55.32 I says it and that is before I road an extra mile around the block to test out my new bike seat.   The Cateye don't lie! Long time in the Saddle Getting ready to role for a new distance: I want to...

  5:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. on Tuesday July 27, 2022, was an insane chain of events.  I don’t even know how to describe it.    I was fine on Friday night, Saturday, and I want to say most of the day on Sunday.  I think might have had a little bit of a headache on Sunday but if I did it was mild.  I feel like I slept pretty good over the weekend.  Did light workouts with Clayton, nothing to crazy.  When I got up Monday even, I felt fine.  However, I got tired about a half hour after waking up.  Then my head where I hit it on the ground started to give me some trouble.  It was just achy, didn’t really hurt, it almost felt heavy.  I noticed as I was on Zoom calls trouble keeping my eyes on the screen.  However, the headaches were mild, so I just figured I slept on my neck wrong, or my neck was still sore from the fall of the bike and that was hurting my head.    Monday turns to Tuesday; I get over seven hours of sleep....

  Leg is healing up nicely from the Fall Another view from the top from Friday Withdraws, Training and Quarter End   I haven’t seen my bike or been on it since Friday.   I am starting to have the withdraws.   I should have ridden it at least once already this week. The bike shop called on Saturday.   The bike should be ready today.   I am tempted to get an uber over there and then ride back.   I like the idea.   You know I really do.     I knew this week was going to be tough with quarter end.   My entire schedule is in shambles because of work.   I feel to pressed for time because of the quarter end, so swimming is off this week docket.   I haven’t been to the pool in two weeks now.   July was a bad swim month for the kid.   That is ok, next week is another week and a new beginning.   Live happens and you must roll with the punches.   Overall, my training is in a really good place with over a mon...

  Just getting Started Friday Ride:   The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly   It would be easy for me to sit here and talk about failure.   It would be easy to say having to get a ride home ten miles short of your longest ride ever was a bad thing.   Perhaps, that is my brains natural state.   To go negative and pick on myself for the things I didn’t do. However, I was out there on Friday, and unless you were out there, you’d never really know the efforts put in, or work that was done or the gains made.   A year ago, I couldn’t ride a bike and now look what I can do.   I just started riding again in May.   So, no matter what happened I’m proud of what I did on Friday and sometimes things can’t be perfect and that is ok.   Sometimes you take what you can get.   We learn from things that don’t go our way and we move on.   So, let’s talk about Friday’s 50-mile ride and how I’ve come to think about 24 hours later:   the Good, th...

  duunnn dunnn... duuuunnnn duun... duuunnnnnnnn dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dunnnnnnnnnnn dunnnn –   Special Jaws music for special socks.   I rolled with my other Shark based socks yesterday.   I need to wear socks that could gobble stuff up because my feet and legs were gobbling up climbs and sprints yesterday.   Plus, these socks are just really freaking cool.   It was time to go back to Cross from Patterson Pass. I had set out to do it the week before, but we know how that ended, with a flat back tire and me having to fix it.   I have 90 miles on that tire now and it seems to be doing good.   So, I do what I do every Wednesday when I am going to ride a hilly secluded road alone and I put on my bright yellow they can see me from space neon jersey.   I call it my Coach Janna jersey because she loved her bright yellow tri and walk gear, I have gloves that match, because I am fancy.   I just want to make sure on thes...