I woke up yesterday to pouring rain so I decided to cancel my Saturday ride, of course, within hours the weather cleared and I felt guilty all day for not riding.  I travel approximately 40 minutes to my ride start locations, so it's difficult sometime to know how the weather is at the ride location vs. how it is at my home.

Today's ride was cancelled yesterday due to predicted thunderstorms, and if it's raining up in our ride location, it's not raining down by me.

I intend to spend lots of time this week on the trainer and at the gym to make sure that I don't lose too much time not riding and to make sure that I'm strong and ready for a 60 mile ride this coming Saturday and the recovery 20 miles next Sunday.  Ride start times are now an hour earlier in the morning to accomodate the longer rides, so I'm up earlier to be ready.

I'm really looking forward to getting back out on my bike, I'm finding I really miss my rides when circumstances cause us to reschedule.

More updates next week, stay well!

A little late posting to my blog this week, my schedule was a bit hectic.  Saturday's ride was over 4 counties and included several challenging hills that I struggled on during past rides.  I was successful and much stronger riding them this week.  I had some trouble with the gears and derailleur on my bike up one of the hills, so Coach Pam Sag'd me to the bike shop for repairs which delayed me a bit.  All in all, I was a little disappointed that I lost some mileage and some time, but it was a good ride all things considered.

I did not ride on Sunday 3/22/09 because I stayed out late Saturday night attending a Fleetwood Mac concert.  They were fabulous. 

That's it for last week, thanks for checking in on my progress.