Conditions: cloudy, 70 degrees, and 5 mph wind (a relief actually!!)
This was my first night ride, and WOW what a great one it was!! Besides the little gnats that get in your nose (EEEEEWWWWW) it was gorgeous outside. Nice little breeze too. So, Kevin went with me, and he survived the 10.5 miles we rode! This was his inagural outside ride, and he tackled it! Ugh...it took me a week and a half to do this...ugh...MEN!!! I mean, what a great coach he has been the past week and a half (wink, wink). Nothing too noteworthy this time. There was a cop that had someone pulled over two different times when we passed him. We rode through a sprinkler to cool off toward the end of the ride. A good decision. I introduced him to the apple cooldown technique, and he is now a believer. So, tonight I can revel in the fact that I have now been 10.5 miles. I am a quarter of the way there with a month to go. Onward ride!!!
About Me
- Joanna Birchfield
- We all have the good and the bad in our genetic makeup. We give credit to good genetics when it includes those features that we are proud of, those traits that make us successful and confident. Then, with bad genetics, we start pointing fingers at our elder ones, who have obviously caused our perfections to go amiss. Well, it's my turn. So, I will now do my own finger pointing. From my dad, I've started having cardiac "concerns" that include a history of high blood pressure and high cholesterol, and from my mother..."My Natural Girlish Figure" (which Mom loved to call "the Applebaum stomach"). This is my journey to thwart bypass surgery and diabetes, both of which happened to my parents. My journey includes several lifestyle transformations with the goal of becoming a more holistic person. And, although it's hard to see, I'm eating a piece of cauliflower in my profile pic.
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