And [Maggie] [s]he writes letters with [her] birthday pen
Remember a year ago? That's when I announced that, since I was turning 40, I'd try to raise a little more money for the MS Society and do the big July bike ride across Minnesota and the mud run in addition to the 150-mile bike ride. It was a fun year. I'm older and wiser now, which means that I hesitated less when signing up for all of that again this coming year.Tonight I finally cleaned my crusty old bike chain and put my bike on the bike trainer. (I was a little sick and a lot overwhelmed after the last many weeks of work travel, so I needed to wait a bit.) I don't know what I rode in the last few times I took my bike out, but whatever it was, it needed to come off of my chain. It was good to sit on my trusty 2010 sangria and black Giant Avail, although the basement isn't nearly as nice of a place to ride my bike as the outdoors on a summer day. I also swapped out my rear tire for a trainer tire and remembered how much it stinks to put on/take off good tires on a road bike. That alone was a workout.
Next up? Christmas and all that entails, including my brain's inability to remember the correct words for the carols. Instead of "haste, haste to bring him laud," my mind insists that the babe, the son of Mary, be given some lard. And, instead of conspiring by the fire, the fires in my mind must be hot, because later on, we're instead perspiring by the fire.
In that vein, here is my winter greeting to you:
Dashing through the snow
Wishing I was on my bike
A little too wimpy though
Too scared of all the ice (yikes, yikes, yikes)
Bells on bikes can ring
Making spirits bright
What fun it is to ride yet sing
A biking song tonight.
Oh, cool road bikes
Mountain bikes
Biking all the way
Oh what fun it is to ride
All around the coun-tray, hey!
Cool road bikes
Mountain bikes
Biking all the way
Oh what fun it is to ride
All around the coun-tray.
Happy Holidays!
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