Training and Training Some More!

I have been training up a storm getting ready for the 2008 season! Today was my longest day of the week. It was an endurance ride of 6 hours (90mi.) which capped off another 20+ hour week. I do not exactly live on "flat" terrain. The longest flat stretch of road that I can ride is about a 1.5 mile and slightly downhill. So going down and up, down and up can get tiring after awhile considering I do not coast (unless I'm cornering). My coach, Aidan Charles, has really helped me alot in giving me proper training. I have improved so much since I have had him as my coach.

On the other side of training, the Super Bowl (or as I like to call it Super Bowel...well alot of chips and dips are consumed). So anyway the Super Bowl weekend brings out many "interesting" people on the roads before the game. During todays ride I had to stop and get some water at a convenient store, and while I was in there a guy who looked like he had seen better days was buying beer. That is fine except when he was reaching for his wallet his hands were shaking up a storm, his eyes were glazed over, and he could not communicate in complete sentences...not that he ever could. The cashier did not even blink when she sold him the beer. My thought was to get the hell out of there before this guy could figure out how to turn his car on and start driving. Other than that I only had to use my middle finger once. I live in an area where one "rotten egg" lurks among the rest. Meaning, many of the drivers on the road do not cause me harm, but there are occasional ones that believe that they should be the only ones on the road.

Thanks for reading,
Rachel