Yep, for some reason (perhaps GLOBAL WARMING) the weather is a balmy 70 or so degrees out today. Yesterday it was terrential (SP?) downfall and cold. This calls for a celebration. Oops, I forgot to vote. Well, it gets dark at 6, so I have time to run home and get 30-40 miles in prior to the darkness and prior to the polls closing. I just can't pass up the opportunity to get a ride in in February without knee or arm warmers in! And, for once my feet will not hurt.
This is my pretty road bike I got last year. It was the Discovery Team's race bike last year. Of course the Discovery team doesn't exist anymore, and Trek has come out with a much better race bike. I will be on this one for not much longer. Smap has aquired the ability to sense when I need new bikes (which is frequently!). Soon, I hope to have my new single speed frame in possession as well as my new Fisher HIFI carbon full suspension bike. Truefully, I really could care less about the HiFI. I really LOVE riding my single speed mountain bike the best out of any bike I have EVER had. This says a lot about me. Coming from a girl who use to cry when Smap took me mountain biking. I just use to get so completely frustrated because I couldn't stay with him or the other guys like I could on the road bike rides. It took me a while to be able to ride fast, but thankfully Smap introduced me to the single speed. It has changed my world of riding (both on the mountain and the road). I am so very thankful for my one geared bike. My technical ability on mountain is 100 X's better as well as my strength and speed....just because of one gear. I could tell on the Tuesday night CBC shop rides how big a difference it made for my road riding last year. I would be able to hang on to those super fast rides just by channelling strength from my core into my legs...it was amazing. I am looking forward to more channelling this year on both my road and mountain bikes!!!
Not much more to talk about today except that I don't have kids today due to teacher in-service!!! WAHOOOOOOOOO... teaching rocks. I do need to plan, so I will plan to blog a little more tomorrow about my ride today.
Cheers!
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