6 more days and counting!

• Posted on 12th May 2008
• in This-n-that
• by Dragonfly

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?. It’s 0400. Where are you?

A. I am waking up and getting my things ready for a training ride outside.

?. Why are you doing it at that time?

A. because that is when I need to be able to get my things done. So I can still come home and be a mom.

?. So how did it go this morning?

A. Rocken’ I left the house at about 4:45 rode to the school so that I could drop off my stuff for swimming and running. Got everything set and was OFF. Man it was amazing…. SWOOSH SWOOSH! The feeling of the wind through my helmet. Than the ups and the downs of the road. I have never been on a bike that fast. The road was going by me in such great speed that my eyes were unable to focus on any one thing as it was flying by. I left the school at 5:02…. Wow I was one mile by 5:04. What an amazing ride. I am so ready to see what this baby can do. So let us get into streamline and hunker in for a nice long ride. Than I felt this sudden swoosh of air with great force on my leg …. What in TARNATION? I look down as I am slowing to see that I have blown out a tire. YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME? Yup I blew out the tire. So what do you think that means? Yup, call the hubby tell him I blew out a tire and I need to walk back but I needed someone to know I was on the trail walking. You know JUST in CASE! I know it is Alaska. But you never know. So I walk with my bike on my shoulder….. so as not to ruin the rim….All the way back. What took me 3 min. to do. 1.5 + a little miles took me 13 min. to walk back. DAG NAB IT!

?. You figure out what did it?

A. Yeah I did. Sad to say it was a slash in the tire that took me. So the rubber gave and so did the inner tube. That was my demise.

?. You get that fixed?

A. YUPPERS! Went out and talked to the good folks over at our local bike shop. Only one for 3 cities. And they helped me look at the tire and than I changed the tire and the inner tube…. BY MYSELF!

?. Could you do it on the trail if it happens on Sunday?

A. Yeah I could but here is the thing. I am not sure that I would. It is one of those things that took me 45 min. to do at home than I had to find an air compressor to get in enough pressure 120 PSI in those things. I can’t touch that with the little pump I have on the bike. But I suppose that in a pinch I could ride the bike with less than desirable PSI and I would get there just slower than I would if it was all there. So I guess we will have to wait and see.

?. once you got to the school what did you do than?

A. went on with a normal work out. Got an hour in on the stationary bike and than about 45 min. in the pool. With all the other stuff going on I didn’t get in the amount that I normally would have… another hour in the pool. I needed to get the bike taken care of ect. So I skipped. But I did have fun. I am currently looking for a bike for myself now. 😉

?. Successful day?

A. any day that I am able to wake up, get moving , and get in a small workout…. is a successful one.

 

So now. Before I go out I will be checking those tires to make sure there are no knife/glass marks in the rubber. Darn poppen tires. LOL

DF OUT

P.S. My mother’s day was WONDERFUL! thank you to those that have asked. How was YOURS?