As I’ve mentioned, I’ve been doing the best of training to get ready for this race. I decided, since it was so nice out today, to take a little jaunt on the fixie.

I met up with the Golden Knuckle and we headed out towards Mendon. I have to say that it was kicking my sorry, fat, old ass. My hamstrings were trashed from counter pedaling in the race last night and I wasn’t feeling a hundred percent when I awoke this morning due to my own stupidity. I have found the weak point of the KHS Flite 100, the saddle. After an hour on it, I felt like I had been straddling a pole. The worst part is you can’t stand up for very long on a fixie so relieving the pressure was a tough thing to do. I will be swapping it out for a WTB saddle in a quick flurry.

We made it to Mendon and then wound through Wellsville and back to the highway for the straight shot back to Logan. Of course, neither of us had really ridden in quite some time and both came ill-prepared. Luckily, I packed my cell phone. About a mile or so from the 10th west turn off I noticed Kevin’s back tire was becoming surprisingly flat. We stopped and he tried to inflate it enough to get home. We didn’t have any tubes. He picked up a wire of some sort and the tire was not going to inflate enough to ride it more than a block. So my lil sis came to the rescue, driving the Mooseknuckler-mobile out to pick our sorry cans up.

All in all, I think we may have done 20 miles today. I feel fine now, but it really hurt doing it. So I’m not sure that my training regimen has worked out the way I had planned. I guess I’ll be well rested, that has to count for something.

To be completely coy with you all, I’m not too interested in racing. I know, I’ve said it before, and I have even said that maybe it could be fun. But when it comes down to it, I just want to ride my bike. And if I get to ride my bike with Kathleen that is just an added bonus. So I’m gonna drive across the country so I can ride my bike and it is going to be an awesome weekend and I don’t care if I only do one lap and it takes me 4 hours to do it. That will be just fine and dandy with me.

Life goes on. Ride it on a bike.

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