Gulp. Five weeks from today is the first day of the MS 150. I'm technically on track with the training, I think, although I'm not as fit as in previous years, and am at 81% of my fundraising goal. Time to keep moving forward on both fronts!
Today is kind of cool and wet, on the heels of a couple of snowy, sleety days (which gave me an excellent excuse to skip out of work to go see Ironman 3 with my brother Bob - woo hoo!), but it looks like 5 p.m. will be an ideal time today for a quick, 20-mile ride. Hopefully I still will be energized for the 35-miler scheduled for tomorrow at 8 a.m. Brrr... Gotta get psyched up for that.
When I decided that I will go for a ride at 5:00 on a grey day, I was thinking that I will hope for a 5:00 shadow - - a shadow on the pavement due to sun in the sky, not some lurker who needs a shave... I decided then that I need more information about 5:00 shadows. Amusingly, this site shows Ryan Gosling (I think so, anyhow, I've been a bad pop culture person for the past 7 years) to illustrate the term. It also explains the source of this term. It's related to tea time - as in don't be scruffy at tea time. I can get behind tea. And sun and shadows.
Maybe I'll luck out and see this guy and his 5:00 shadow on the trails.
Does it count as skipping out of work if it was a planned afternoon off? Probably not, but it sounds more rebellious that way. The things I mull over in my spare time...
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