I haven't really felt like posting lately, but it's not for lack of things to say. I'm just going through one of those phases where I think I'm really boring, and don't want to subject others to my boring dorkiness. It's not that I feel bad about having a boring life, necessarily...it just doesn't seem worth writing about. You know?
So anyway, here are the highlights:
-Hit a wasp on my commute home last Thursday, and boy was he PISSED. Bounced off the handlebars and onto my right thigh, where he exacted his revenge before dying. I nearly did an endo over the curb trying to brush him off, and had an angry red welt on my leg for nearly 3 days. Stupid wasp.
-Finally started A Million Little Pieces and HATED it. I got two pages in, then put it back in the return envelope. It's a darn shame, too, because I really wanted to read it, just to see what all the hoopla was about. However, his writing style annoyed the crap out of me. The present tense was bad enough, but the thing that really pushed me over the edge was the Pointless capitalization of ordinary Words. Ugh.
-Mother's Day was good. We went to lunch with Rob's mom, then she took Noah to the pool, so I had some time to take the commuter to the bike shop to install a rear rack and a different computer. The installation was going to take a couple hours, so I walked over to Barnes & Noble to spend my mother's day present. Picked up a journal (I'm a forgetful shopper, so I'm using that one just for keeping track of things I want/need to buy), an LED book light, Case Histories, 102 Minutes, Queen Bees & Wannabes, and two books for Noah--Hardy Boys #1 and Wayside School is Falling Down. He isn't a big reader, so we're hoping to get him interested in a series of books this summer.
-My club ride starts this Saturday. I'm still pretty nervous about leading it...what if I make an ass of myself? This past Saturday, I rode the route I'm going to use, and it's mostly fine. There are a couple of left turns I'm not crazy about, but it was still the best 20-mile loop I could find around town. I also decided to ride to the starting place, which added another 18 miles to my total distance. With the times that I took a wrong turn/tried out an alternate road and then doubled back, my total ride was just over 44 miles. I'm going to try very hard to make the club ride a recovery for me. I've been really neglecting the long, easy workouts lately...I like to get out there and hammer away every time I'm on the bike, and it's not doing much to improve my endurance. It is making my thighs stronger, which would be good if I was also losing fat, but I'm not so much. So it's just making my pants tighter. Aargh.
-I tried a little running on the track Monday. It went fine...ran a total of about 7 minutes (two songs, with two walking songs between). My legs felt really heavy on the second interval, and I'm still paying for it today with some hip soreness. My knees feel fine, though, so that's good. I wasn't wearing the HR monitor, but I'm sure my heart rate was ridiculously high. That's going to need more work, but I think I'm going to wait until the fall before I run again.
-I signed up for the Katy Flatland century in July, and also a metric out of Hempstead the second Sunday in June. I figured that'd be a good way to gauge how far out of century shape I am, with a month's training left to go. Last year's Tour de Pink was out of the same location, and the course is not too bad. I'm hoping to have a faster time on this ride in June than I did last September.
-My (hopefully) last blood draw for hcg testing is going to be this afternoon. The last one had me at 21, so the doctor wanted to wait a few weeks before testing again, since those last 25 seem to take the longest to go down. I've waited about a month, so I think it's time. I'm torn between hoping it's down to zero, and fantasizing that they'll tell me I'm pregnant again. I haven't had a period since the miscarriage, so anything's possible. I'll be fine either way. We've got time.
Posted by Joy at May 17, 2006 09:55 AM