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Sunday, 10 June 2007

Look at me out on my bike!

If you could have seen me working that pace line! I went to a bike clinic w/ a few girls from my team this morning. I got a ride from one of the girls and had to bike out to her place in Brookline to meet her. It was only ~5.5 miles, a good warmup, and good thing it was 6:30am because otherwise the traffic would have scared me.

We get to the clinic and I realize it's co-ed, for some reason I thought all women, but it was an intermediate clinic so no hard core people. The funny thing was I walked over to join the group and I see this guy I recognize and he's this guy I went on a date w/ before and he's a big cyclist and I heard one of the instructors introduce him as her boyfriend. So funny! I wanted to run away. No way was this guy teaching me anything about riding. Luckily though he was in street clothes and drove away, maybe I scared him off, but anyway that was the last sighting of him, though a funny story.

We proceeded to talk about biking skills and I learned stuff about shifting gears and I have to say I did shift lots today which I usually don't do and we did pace line stuff for the 26 or 29 mile ride we did. It was frustrating in the beginning because this bitchy woman was inconsistent and would slow way down on uphills but then wouldn't pick it up on downhills so i kept really creeping up on her side because I didn't want to break and she'd yell at me that I was in the wrong gear, though it was this crappy lady's problem that she was in the wrong gear but this happened several times where she would tell me I was in the wrong gear and her personality in general was awful. The first half of the ride went very slow, starting and stopping, etc. There was another woman on a mountainy bike w/ normal pedals that was friends w/ the bitch but she had no problem being left behind w/ one of the instructors. Finally at halfway we somehow got the bitch to go w/ her friend and an instructor and about 7 of us went w/ this other instructor who worked us real hard in a pace line and we were up to 20 mph (minus downhills) at some parts which for right now is awesome for me because I usually feel so slow. My teammates have invited me on their Saturday morning rides from now on because we're about the same pace they said and they invited me to do this triathlon in July w/ them but for now I have to work that weekend, unless I can switch w/ someone.

All in all it was a great clinic and ride, though it cost me $40, at least I got out on my bike, even riding in the city, have an invite to future rides and finally feel once again that I want to race.

Now I need a nap, I couldn't sleep all night too nervous about riding today.

Posted: Jun 10, 2007 13:55

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Jenn wrote at 2007-06-11 16:10:

Good job! Now keep going on the Saturday rides and go more on your own too - the time to go is definitely early morning, which only sucks because of how hard it is to get up. We went about 32 miles on Saturday and 14-15 on Sunday. Both days leaving later than we wanted to but not too late. But Sunday coming back traffic sucked.

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