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April 23, 2006
To Bike or Not to Bike?
It finally stopped raining this morning after raining all day yesterday. The grass grew about 2 inches in 1 day - I kid you not! We were making hay out there! So O and I went to church, came home, ate lunch and then I sat around for about an hour wondering if I should attempt an outside ride or not. It was beautiful and sunny with big, puffy white clouds in the sky, but the weather channel warned of ominous thunderstorms coming our way. I didn't want to get stuck 10 miles from home, digging myself a hole in the ground to keep from getting hit by lightening!
Finally around 1:30 or so I decided to go for it. And boy am I glad I did! It was a beautiful day and the thunderstorms never came. Yipppeeee!!! I rode my usual 14 mile loop (with a slightly higher average speed of 15.8 MPH) and then added on a little through town to total around 17.8 miles. It was pretty windy at times so I was getting blown about, and for some reason I felt like my wedding band was falling off my finger the whole ride, but otherwise I quite enjoyed myself. I almost wished I would have gone further!
Other than the ride, I've been enjoying the day very much so. Despite my lack of motivation yesterday O and I ended up being quite productive (cleaning the whole house, getting lots of odds and ends done and I even finished my take home final!) such that we had a lot of time for relaxing today. Alas - it's dinner time and I am very hungry! Hope everyone has a great start to their week!
Posted by beth at April 23, 2006 5:10 PM