Last week we were scheduled to have our first team bike ride. Unfortunately, the weather didn't cooperate, and we did a 3 mile run in the rain instead. Rain isn't that big of a deal, it's the wind that sucks. Thankfully, I had previous experiences with running in the rain, and I remembered my garbage bag. What I didn't think of was to bring some extra bags with me and work on my fundraising. Damn lack of enterpeneurail spirit. Oh well, maybe next time. Who am I kidding! I'm keeping my fingers crossed that there's no more experiences with rain during training times. =)
So I had an extra week to anticipate my first team bike ride. Thankfully, I had some distractions, no work, and preparing for Thanksgiving to keep the nerves at bay. So on November 27th, I woke at 5:30 so that I had plenty of time to have food, and get myself to our meeting site approximately 20-25 mins away. Thankful I had gotten myself an early birthday present of a portable Garmin GPS navigation system to use for my car. I made it to our meeting spot w/ plenty of time, to attach my bike wheel, and get some of the butterflies out of my system.
Coach had a lot of information to go over with us, and standing around in the cold wasn't any fun, again, thankful to my previous training experience I dressed in layers and was ready to listen. Then it was finally time to get into our groups and start our ride. We were doing a 2.5 mile loop approximately 5-10 times, depending on ability level. I went 5 loops and was relieved to have bought and worn my bike shorts. I don't know if I could have dealt with sitting on a bike saddle for that length of time with out 'em. =)
With the first team bike ride going so well, I got out to join the team again today for another 10 mile bike ride. There were rolling hills on the course today, and I felt good. Let's see how the legs hold up for my birthday swim tomorrow.
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