RAMROD

Thats ride around Mt Rainier One Day
It is 3:50AM and the alarm will go off at 4:00 plan to start at 5:00. Weather looks to be clear and cool. Ideal cycling day!

YeHa 100Miles

Well almost anyway but I didn't feel like staying in the saddle for the extra 4 miles to round it out by riding around and around the neighborhood....
Someone in the crazy group of cyclists I associate with decided that getting up at the crack of dawn July 5th and going for a 100 mile ride would be a good thing. So I hooked up with my Tandem buddy Max and we decided to join in the fun. As she put it - "A flat ride with a visit to a bakery, I'm in!"
So up I got at 5:45AM with the Greg, Ruth and Max meeting at my house at a little before 6:30. We then rode on down to the Montlake bridge to meet up with Barb. We then rode on down along Lake Washington to Renton and off towards Black Diamond Bakery for lunch. Then off to flaming geyser and back up along the lake .
At the end of the day we rolled back home with just under 100 miles. A good day!

Sometimes it's the little things....

Been feeling rather low the last few days.... Too many aches and pains and not enough hugs in my life or something.

Today I got to go in to a podiatrist to try to figure out what was causing the foot pain I have started having on the bicycle. It has gotten better since I moved my cleats back a quarter inch (!!) during rides but after the rides now I have severe pain on the outside of my foot/ankle. Mostly it has been on my left foot which is my "good" foot. My right which was smashed when Ginger my horse fell on me back in my teenage years has always been picky but was not the one that was really hurting this time. Anyway got in to see the Doc. and he asked lots of questions poked and prodded (ouch!) and took X-Rays of both feet.

While going over the X-Rays with me (don't you love the digital X-Ray technology that allows them to pull up the pics on a laptop in a few minutes!) he was amazed at the amount of damage in my right foot. Evidently it was fractured and dislocated across the ball of the foot and never correctly set. I remember they just treated the whole thing like a sprained ankle, wrapped the foot and gave me crutches. He mentioned that it was a good thing my exercise of choice was cycling that running or track would have been out. I said I did do track and gymnastics - his response: "After this injury?!" "Yep!" he said if he showed the X-Ray to his colleagues they would never believe the person with it had done sports afterwards....
But wait it gets better - he was curious whether I had kids and whether they where as active as I was. When I told him I had a 25 year old daughter he was shocked - when I said I was 50 he was quite surprised - Said he must have the age on the chart but I did not look or act 50.... SCORE!

Yep Little things... Made me feel good all day.

Oh and the foot? Shot of cortisone and a very good wrap job - oddly enough the tape is on the bottom of the foot and just slightly up the side and over the area behind the toes. It really feels better - I am hoping to get on the bike today and try it. Next week I go back for orthotics and hopefully he will teach me to wrap it myself. He had explanations for what was happening but it will probably be a bit of a trial and error getting the foot happy on the bike. He did not think I should curtail my activities so that is good enough for me.

Flying Wheels 100

We Did It!

100miles, minimal training, but still fun!
We even finished in plenty of time to enjoy the finish line festival.

Quote of the Day: You can't depend on your eyes...

"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
-Mark Twain

Quote of the Day: Point of No Return

"You get such a wonderful view from the Point of No Return."
-Moist von Lipwig

Quote of the Day: Gravity

"Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off."
-Terry Pratchett, "Small Gods" (1992)