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Archive for May, 2009

Life is a Highway….

I’m going to ride it ALL WEEK LONG!
Tomorrow I fly up to San Francisco to register / check-in at AIDS LifeCycle 8.
I am excited, intimidated, humbled…. it will be a wonderful week. I hope safety and a sense of calm encompasses me. This past week has been challenging: physically and mentally.
Knowing [...]

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Life’s bumpy roads

This past week had some metaphorical bumps in the road.
AIDS LifeCycle 8 is in one week… ONE WEEK. I’ve been scanning checklist after checklist, making my customary supply piles in the middle of the living room (i.e. shirts, socks, cycling gear, etc.).
This past week had only one swim since I figured traffic would get [...]

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Reality bites…

T-minus two weeks before the incredible 545 mile AIDS LifeCycle. Biking from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 7 days.
Less than four months before Ironman Wisconsin. We just purchased our plane tickets…
Holy crap, time flies… reality sets in.
Hang on tight, buckle up – let’s fly!

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Yesterday was CVC’s Cruisin the Conejo. The organized ride offers several different lengths for riders ranging from shorter rides (30) to metric centuries (62 – challenging – in the Santa Monica Mountains, 68 – moderate – outside the canyons and in Thousand Oaks, Oxnard, Simi Valley, and finally, the big bad century: 100 [...]

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It’s official….I’m signed up for next year’s Ironman California 70.3 – Half Ironman.
Here we go again!

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