Disaster Averted

On my bike ride in to work this morning I was totally out of it just completely zoned the whole way which isn’t a good thing on your  bike.  The f said I crossed the street right in front of him and didn't even notice, luckily he was nice enough not to honk.  I’ve been so tired lately yet keep waking up earlier than I need to.  On the first downhill a skateboarder crouched down low to the ground to bomb down the hill as he yelled “Hello!  Good morning!  How are you?!?!”  I could barely muster enough enthusiasm to mumble a response with my best impression of a person who was awake.  Just as I thought he wasn’t going to make the turn onto the the flat side walk he yelled out  “woohoo”  Why can’t I be that awake and chipper in the mornings?  Later on my ride there were about 10 FBI agents lining the road I went down looking very serious!

Weekend ride

So yesterday my boss came in to my office to ask me if I could take over a training session he had on Oct. 3 that he’d trade me one of mine.  I said I can’t I have a ½ marathon that weekend in Florida.  His eyes got real big and he asked “Was it on the calendar?  Because my wife just booked us a flight to Chicago.”  I said, “Noooo I must have completely spaced putting it on the calendar and I was going to tell you about it but then we had a meeting start.”   Long story short I was going to have to cancel my trip because of my STUPID mistake of not remembering to put it on the calendar and they have a rule that there always has to be 1 person from the team in the office, but we are the only 2 person team.  So he asked for an exception and I get to go on Thurs. as planned but had to change my return flight to Sunday instead of Monday.  I will be a zombie because  the ½ is at 10pm with an after party but at least I still get to go!  I learned my lesson on that one.  I will not confirm or deny that I had to go into my office, close the door, and have a panic attack for about 5 minutes. 

This weekend I got some good training in and I’m so glad I got up a little early to beat the heat.  On Saturday it was already feeling hot at 7 am but I did 7 miles.  On Sunday it was cooler about 70 degrees but the high that day got up to 102.  We saw big groups of people headed out as we were getting back I could not imagine!  It took us 2.5 hours to do 33 miles but it was some great hill training!  We went roughly from 5650 ft to 7600.  What is your favorite kind of bike training?  My favorite is tough hills!  Then when you go back and work on speed on the flats it feels so great!

Pic of Los Alamos on my way to a race there 2 years ago, this is the place that is now evacuated and on FIRE!  Hope it is contained soon!