My stint with "The Crud" is over and has been for a week. I am back on track with training and feeling almost 100%. I have been seeing my ART doc and my knee is feeling soooo much better. I am very excited about it. The SCTS schedule came out this past week and I signed up for my first 2 Olympic distance events. I should start having more to post as the season progresses.
I can tell you that yesterday, I had the pleasure of cycling with several IMAZ participants. In planning our ride, we utilized the GMAP feature to pick our route. Seemed easy enough. We headed out on our bikes confidently and came to our turn which didn't exist. It was actually a dirt driveway and perhaps had we been on mountain bikes instead of road bikes, we could have traversed through the woods to our next destination on the route. Nevertheless, we took the road more travelled and wound up in somewhat familiar territory yet uncertain which direction we should go. So being women, we asked...we got multiple answers in the span of one conversation with respect to the estimated distance we would need to travel in order to reach our destination. Then, we were met by a group of male cyclists who came zooming in on their expensive bikes only to share with us the massive distances that they had accomplished already on this day and then to go on to share unsolicited information about how much riding they've done this month. A quick comment about our "wanker bars" as they referred to them so politely and off we went. We enjoyed the ride despite someone having fun with turning a sign in the wrong direction...a few tenths of a mile later we realized that this was not the correct way. We laughed a lot about this adventure taking on the attitude of a scavenger hunt of sorts via bicycle.
Nevertheless, it was a great ride overall, good company and a good route. Beautiful weather was very much a bonus. Today is an OFF day...what's that?
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