Scrap Booking, Anyone?

Well, I think this pretty much sums up how I'm feeling about my season (or lack there of). My body is still not cooperating so I haven't been able to ride very much. When I do try to push through I end up knocking myself down for a week or two with a nasty flare-up.


I'm looking into other activities to fill my time. Trying to read more (relaxing but not fun), catching up with the DVR (I can only take so much), walking the dog (he's 11 and he can only take so much), cooking, cleaning (Kidding! I haven't lost my mind)...someone at work asked me to go to a scrap booking class (seriously? WTF!!! I'm sure they'd love me). Another coworker asked me to go to an Irish dance class (Really? Have these people met me?). Somewhere out there there is an activity for me. I just have to find it.

Everything I would like to try defeats the purpose and is just as taxing as the cycling. If there was full contact scrap booking I would probably be interested.

Kamikaze Chipmunks

Happy to be off-road!

Very proud to have trashed her bike and body

wow...at least my monstrosity of a zit got covered by the mud

Well, you know these aren't my circus freak feet...

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Finally my tri friend Stacey has decided to do a cross-country race. The Darkhorse Gallop will be her first XC race since the 90s!

You never really know what to expect when you ride with someone for the first time in the dirt (Are they going to endo? Are they going to freak out about the mud? Are they going to make you look like a jackass? Where is the nearest hospital?). I didn't know what to expect.

Having raced and ridden the road with her I knew she had a huge engine (well, I guess the 3 or so Ironmans had something to do with that). She didn't make it easy for me today. I could feel the hours I've put in this past week on the bike as well as those weeks I spent holding down the couch. It just goes to show you-- if you're fit, you're fit. It doesn't all necessarily have to be on the bike.

All in all it was a good day. The weather was so so but the ride was a good one.

Leo