It didn't rain yesterday, but nonetheless, it was my hardest ride so far.
In the morning, I was flying at the front of the group with Chad and Hana. It was sunny ish for a while, but then it turned murky grey again ... We were low on lunch food, so Hana and I biked back into town for some footlong subs. Unfortunately for me, the footlong was a bad idea: my legs were feeling really sore for the first time up the hills after lunch. Also, I was having a hard time temperature controlling, because it was chilly going downhill, but hot going uphill. Even after I was warmed up again after the first 10 miles, it was all I could do to hang on to Lindsey's wheel into Youngstown. It's funny, I told people how tired I was afterwards, and they were all really surprised because I was going a decent pace. I guess you learn some tricks through the years.
Anyway, in stead of blogging, I opted to take a 1.5 hour nap and felt a lot better afterwards :)
In contrast, today was sunny, beautiful, warm, and not that hilly (finally). I stuck with Julie and Katharine for the morning, and chilled out at lunch. We'd gotten a huge donation of day old grocery food from Hannah Dubansky's counsin (thanks Hannah and cousin!), so we all chowed down on donuts, croissants, baguette with cream cheese, carrots, bananas, etc. I ate the perfect amount today. Plus, lying spreadeagle in the sun for a while is always good for the soul.
I'm really looking forward to the land flattening out. I'm sure some people are going to complain about the landscape becoming boring and unchanging, but hey, the cornfields are where I started cycling seriously anyways. I don't mind the monotony.
Anyway, tomorrow's a build day, so we'll be able to rest up :)
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Do you remember that one sunday last summer. after came back from church. we had noodle as lunch, and I went out for running. I planned to run 13 miles. But after 3 miles, I could not run any more. I was sweat, having cramps at stomach, my legs were heavy, etc. I turned around at mile 3.5 and almost walked back home. I had never experienced that before. So I blamed the heavy lunch.
The lesson was that however I feel hungry, I should not eat excessive food before running!
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