5.12.12 Mission Bay to Rancho Santa Fe and 5.13 recovery??

So followers, the last of my training ride blogs before I ride out.  Here is the catch. I don't remember the rides!!  After our Rancho Santa Fe ride on 5.12 (remember, the blog dates are out of order right now :)) I left my self a voice message at work with the details, intending to report back during a lunch break from work.  Well work has a 14 day cap on messages and it is now lost forever as it was automatically deleted.  But that also says something for how much of a whirlwind my last few weeks have been.  So with that said, I will recap the moments I remember and move on to last Sundays in a blog later today.

on 5.12.12 we went for a 80 mile ride starting in Mission Bay.  UP the coast we go (no, cant post the garmin link, garmin is acting up :() up through Rancho Santa Fe.  Romi and I pretty much did this entire ride together.  It was super fun.  Romi has the same pace as me and we kept each other entertained.  The moment of moments was when Romi and I got moderately lost.  We pull over, find our way and turn around.  Well Romi, fell over.  Hilarious!!! She just ate shit trying to peddle in a circle.  She was fine.  But I remember the look on her face as she went down.  She knew she had no where to go, so she released, smiled and fell over.  We laughed hard together.

The ride up and through Rancho Santa Fe, Escondido and down the beach was nice.  Very quiet day, the smells were overwhelmingly beautiful. Fragrant flowers, campfires, toasted marshmallows, pine, spring time smells.  So delightful.  No Zen, Will report on that in my final blog post tomorrow, but overall a great ride.

We do Torrey Pines hill where I had my moment.  I rode into the hill.  Yup.  Just started veering right.  Went straight into the hill.  Again, hilarious!!!  And I am glad a new friend was there to witness it and laugh at me, and with me :)

Here is a pic from that day.  I love it as it has all our bikes and a fantastic red ribbon jersey!



OK.  So Sunday, we go on a recovery ride.  Something to keep the muscles in gear and keep us in the saddle.  "Alright Team San Diego, here is an easy 30 mile ride".  Lets do it.  Since when does an easy ride include hills??!!  Great ride, but difficult.  We start in Mission Bay and go uphill towards Soledad.  Is this me finding Jesus again?  Not sure, but it is a hell of a ride up a big hill.  We get to the top, I may have said a little prayer "lord, save my legs" at the base of the controversial and then down to La Jolla.  Again, this ride details are lost in the abyss of voicemail land as the notes were deleted.  But I do remember the down hill being SWEET!!  Super fast and fun.  A little ride through La Jolla and then up Scripps road hill.  This hill was TOUGH!!! Tough!!!!! NO joke, it was tough.  I wanted to quit.  A shout out to Jen though who was in front of me.  We rode up the hill and slowly just kept peddling.  At one point I say "Jen this is tough".  She said I know, but we can do it.  Just them three Italian guys pass by who were participating in that days triathlon.  They passed us, slowly, they were taking it easy I am sure.  But it hit Jen and I.  One, they were cute and gave her and I motivation to peddle faster (just kidding, a little) but two, we are biking next to true athletes.  Awesome!!  Wait a minute, that means..... were athletes.  Damn Jen, lets take on this hill.  This is easy.  We are doing it.  We are athletes!!!!  We get to the top of that hill, but not before having dirty thoughts about food.  Yes, Jen said it best.  "I am having pornographic thoughts about food right now".  When you exert that much, all you can think of is that juicy steak with melted blue cheese on top.  So juicy and so good (I got that steak Memorial day Monday with Jose!!! A Sizzler pit stop) and it was good!  Off to Encinitas, quick pit stop, turn around, up Torrey (is this ride over??) and back home.  It was a great ride.  Difficult, but well worth it.

Well Followers, one more blog post, then off to finish packing and shopping.  Tonight, my final blog and then I ride.  TTYL

Until next time,
Keep Peddling!