Long story, but I'm going to tell it anyway. I took my car in to get new brakes and tires yesterday morning, well at 3:00pm last night I called to see if it was done and they told me I needed new shocks as well, and that my car wouldn't be done until 7:00. Well that did me no good since it was Britt's birthday yesterday and we were planning on going out to dinner, so I caught a ride home with a co-worker. I could have got a ride back to work this morning with the same co-worker but that would have totally messed up my workout so I decided to man up and pull the ol' bike down. Charged up all the batteries last night, (yes my bike has lots of batteries to charge) took it for a spin to make sure everything was working, and got out all the bike gear. This morning the thermometer said 38 degrees, not bad for running, but biking is different. dug up as many cold weather clothes as I could fit on and headed out. Wasn't too bad, but in the summer going over the point of the mountain I always have a nice tail wind, this morning it was a massive headwind. I wasn't too cold except for my fingers and toes. I definitely need to figure that out if I ride to work in the cold again cause my toes were really miserable. I took it pretty easy because I'm paranoid of wrecking, and going downhill fast was way to cold, but man some of those uphills kicked my butt, running fitness and biking fitness for some reason aren't the same. I was suckin' air pretty hard going up the hill from 13th to Wasatch. Anyway, made it to work in 1:25, I think my best time is around 1:12. I don't feel bad about missing my run this morning at all. I was suppose to do 1200's but really at this point is not doing a VO2 max workout really going to change my time in Boston? Oh! one last story. I had no clothes stashed at work so I had to carry a backpack with clothes. I rummaged through our closet and the best backpack I could find was Britt's hiking Camelback, problem is it's bright pink. I asked my 9 year old if he thought people would make fun of me if I had a pink backpack. He said "nope" I said "why not" he said "cause it's better than nuthin', I think they would make more fun of you if you didn't have any backpack" I have the smartest kids on the planet. I wore the pink backpack with pride.
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