I made the mistake of happily ‘complaining’ that my life is nicely boring to someone last week. This is a good thing; my life can be WAY too interesting at times and it gets tiring. Interesting is hard to keep up with.
All that changed this Monday.
Quick review of the past few days:
7/21 – Tagged along on a Category 1 semi pro cyclist’s recovery ride. That was fun, and it is very amusing to be told that I am good to practice with because I “keep him slow”. Love it. Also told I’m “funny”. I get that a lot. I guess I’m humorous*. Yay.
7/22 – Family member passed away. I am going home soon to help spread her ashes
7/23 – Helped a friend buy a bike but didn’t get time to ride
7/24 – Sheer laziness and blamed the heat, did not ride (#fail). Tried to console Dad – one of his closest friends (of the past 25 years!) committed suicide after a bad prescription cocktail completely messed up his mental demeanor**.
7/25 – Got a phone call during the day that has now changed not only this week but my entire life.
I can’t share the details yet. Still getting my head wrapped around the situation.
Someone asked me today, “why aren’t you crying? why aren’t you screaming?”
Yesterday, another person mentioned “you sure are taking this well!”
Well, what can you do? First of all, I am super blessed in life. I have access to resources that many people don’t. Ultimately everything will be OK. I have my family and friends to support me. It was really hard telling my family, I don’t want them to be scared or worried.
It left me a little distracted at work today, which is inexcusable to me. So I am hoping that mind dumping/blogging about things can help keep me more focused. And not wake me up at 3 AM.
SO! Let me tell yah – life is NEVER truly boring. And just when you are hoping it will be, bam! Right in tha kissa!
*Being humorous does not get me dates.
**The god awful Percocet. Side effects include depression and suicide. I am not kidding. I had this exact reaction to the drug myself after getting some wisdom teeth pulled and taking it as a pain killer.
Although I will pretty much summarize the same thing in my ‘About Me’ page, I figured I’d make an opening post.
This blog will heavily focus on my dream to do a double century – two hundred miles on a bike.
I have already done two centuries – one this last weekend, and one a month prior. Also signed up for a double metric century (126 miles) for August. Oi, I have a lot of training to do!
By end of April, I was in great shape. I had no problem with the first century (Tour de O.C.) and felt I could KEEP ON BIKIN’! Then I got nose surgery (to fix a twice broken nose that was causing me a ton of pain, and YES, we did a cosmetic fix on the tip, since it was collapsed since childhood due to one of the breaks). If I could do it again, I would NOT. I couldn’t do anything for weeks, and sat around the house. My cat died right before my surgery, and I got laid off right after my surgery. Needless to say, maybe not my best month, eh?
So when I did my second century (L.A. River Ride), which is ALL FLAT, it took my seven hours to complete and those last 20 miles were BRUTAL. I really need to get back into shape for the Cool Breeze double metric in August! Needless to say, I’ll be turning 32 in August, so .. oi!
Another thing I am working on is losing 20 lbs. I was a stable 145 (5’10″ tall) since high school. Then two things happened:
1. I turned 30
2. My boyfriend got in a motorcycle accident
which means we sat around the house while he healed, and I didn’t work out/go to gym/etc. We both gained weight. He lost his like.. overnight… and I am still carrying mine. It has been a lot harder to lose weight than in my 20′s. I really dedicated this time to get back down 15-20 lbs, so I can
A. Fit into my clothes better (when you are tall, you can pack on 20 lbs and still fit most of your clothes)
B. Be a better cyclist
C. I hate being overweight!!!
So we have a lot of information in this post. To summarize:
1. I want to bike a double century (200 miles)
2. I love cycling and will use this blog to blahblahblah about the many facets of road cycling
3. Hope to gain some readers that can participate/provide feedback/etc.
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