That cold I had was a bit of a doozy, making my riding last weekend very slow, calm, short, and mucus-filled. I'm glad I got to get out, though, and meet some of our new riders and learn more about them. With 60 riders on our team, there's no shortage of people to meet! Also, the weather was warm and I got to visit a couple of lemonade stands on my bike, which I love to do, so I made lemonade out of lemons, as it were, with respect to my cold. (I always want to say that I made lemons out of lemonade, oddly enough.)
This past week was horribly rainy, greatly limiting my ability to ride. Again, in the lemonade out of lemons category, I took advantage of the crummy weather and my awesome, visiting cousin Sarah's perspective, knowledge, and enthusiasm, and ended up spending Friday going bike shopping. I'd post a picture of my bike, but I won't be picking it up until Tuesday night.
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| Erik's Bike Shop guy helping me figure out my frame size. |
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| Rain, schmain. With Sarah at the very overflowing Minnehaha Falls. |
Sarah is one of my most favorite people. If she weren't my cousin, I would make her be my friend. She does sustainability work for a health system, leading bike initiatives, healthy food improvements, clean energy investments, and all sorts of interesting stuff. She was in town for a work meeting and stuck around for the weekend. I had such a fun time bike shopping, eating yummy food, going for a walk in the rain, bowling with my brother and his family, and going to a movie. It was a great weekend. The rain finally stopped late this afternoon, and I should have gone for a ride in the cold, damp weather, but guess I'll make up for my lack of riding in other ways.
I spent a lot of time tonight forcing hugs upon my dog. Her good buddy and my pal, Grady Green the poodle, was diagnosed with advanced cancer last week and died today. Besides just being sad about the loss of a quality guy like Grady (he and I snuggled a lot when we dogsat him) and feeling sad for his family, I'm slightly freaked out because he was about a year younger than Piper. I'm not ready to even begin considering entering that phase of life. Rest in peace, you goofball rooster of a dog, Grady. We will miss you.
I've got $89 to go to meet my goal for the MS150, but am only at 4% of my $2,000 goal for the 5-day MS TRAM. Yikes!
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