1. I'm strong, tough, and fierce.
2. I pinked my ride.
3. I've put in the work. I deserve this.
4. I have gone through some pretty tough times over the last 6 months, yet managed to pull out 10 PR's through the process, far surpassing my goals in 10 of the 12 races I have done in that time period. The 2 races that didn't go as well were both my third race in as many weeks on hot humid Houston days. I'm not going to worry about those 2 - I'm going with the 10. I haven't just met my goals in each of these races, I have smashed them.
5. I completed 4 century rides in training this year. Last year I did 1.
6. I had strong 18 and 20 mile training runs (the 20 miler run faster than marathon pace). Last year my longest run was 16 miles.
7. I have put my race on hold at 2 different races in the last month to help someone else. Surely karma can help me out there!
8. I'm racing several lbs lighter than last year - lbs that I shed last fall as part of finding my identity as the "new Kathleen"
Today was my last bike ride before packing up my bike to send off on Tri Bike Transport. I rode with the Sugar Cycles crew along with Chad, Michelle, and Shellie. I had no idea where we were going or how far and it was fabulous. Sometimes it is fun to totally give up all control and just literally sit back and enjoy the ride. I think we ended up going around 32 miles. We headed to Twin Lakes afterwards, first stopping at Starbucks to get some warm drinks to thaw us out. Funny our last training ride of the season was one of our coldest.
It took a while to find motivation to jump into a 60-something degree lake on a cloudy 60 degree morning. We finally did and I swam ~2000m. Of course, no lie, the second I got out of the water the sun came out. The temp rose 10 degrees in the 20 minutes it took me to get home and now that I'm settling in for a nap it is a gorgeous day.
I cleaned up my bike a bit before taking it to Bikesport for its little journey to Tempe. It cleaned up pretty nice, if you ask me!
2. I pinked my ride.
3. I've put in the work. I deserve this.
4. I have gone through some pretty tough times over the last 6 months, yet managed to pull out 10 PR's through the process, far surpassing my goals in 10 of the 12 races I have done in that time period. The 2 races that didn't go as well were both my third race in as many weeks on hot humid Houston days. I'm not going to worry about those 2 - I'm going with the 10. I haven't just met my goals in each of these races, I have smashed them.
5. I completed 4 century rides in training this year. Last year I did 1.
6. I had strong 18 and 20 mile training runs (the 20 miler run faster than marathon pace). Last year my longest run was 16 miles.
7. I have put my race on hold at 2 different races in the last month to help someone else. Surely karma can help me out there!
8. I'm racing several lbs lighter than last year - lbs that I shed last fall as part of finding my identity as the "new Kathleen"
Today was my last bike ride before packing up my bike to send off on Tri Bike Transport. I rode with the Sugar Cycles crew along with Chad, Michelle, and Shellie. I had no idea where we were going or how far and it was fabulous. Sometimes it is fun to totally give up all control and just literally sit back and enjoy the ride. I think we ended up going around 32 miles. We headed to Twin Lakes afterwards, first stopping at Starbucks to get some warm drinks to thaw us out. Funny our last training ride of the season was one of our coldest.
It took a while to find motivation to jump into a 60-something degree lake on a cloudy 60 degree morning. We finally did and I swam ~2000m. Of course, no lie, the second I got out of the water the sun came out. The temp rose 10 degrees in the 20 minutes it took me to get home and now that I'm settling in for a nap it is a gorgeous day.
I cleaned up my bike a bit before taking it to Bikesport for its little journey to Tempe. It cleaned up pretty nice, if you ask me!
Comments
You're going to be amazing next weekend! You've had the heart and the ability all along-- I'm glad that you finally realize it. Kick some bootay!
I love your bike!! Love the pink flowers!!
I saw you out on your ride this morning. I did a swim with my gang out at Twin Lakes and we went over to Manvel HS to go run and I saw some pretty slick triathletes peddaling by.
Nice flowers. How can I get flames on my bike???
(Note to self: she's put the pink stickers on the tri-spoke wheels that would have worked nicely on my bike.)