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I did my first metric!
Hello everyone!
Saturday I completed my first metric century and I'm so pumped!
It didn't start very well... DH and I were late and got a 15 minute delayed start so we were pretty much by ourselves for the first 10 miles. No problem with that really, except that the cycle gods decided to punish us with a heavy downpour at mile 5. We were soaked. Water was slushing in my shoes, I couldn't see, I'm sure you all know the feeling, but it was a first for me. At the first rest stop we found that it was a microburst - that no one else got it. People looked at us and asked how we got so wet.... they thought we were profuse perspirators I guess.
It was a hilly course but beautiful.
Just had to share my joy as no one here in the workplace understands.
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Congratulations! Sounds like it was quite an adventure.
V.
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Congratulations!! I'm green with envy :D <--- see?!?!?!?!?! Hope it was fun and you have many more..
Pat
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Congratulations!! Glad you had a great ride. Other than the rain I mean. Don't feel alone, that would be what would happen to me. I'd be the only one rained on. :rolleyes:
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That's awesome!! Sorry about the rain, but it's gotta be funny in hind sight! :D
Keep on riding!
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Congratulations!!!! I know how it is when you accomplished something over the weekend and you tell people at work that you road a metric and they go huh? like on a bike? like a pedal bike? what's a metric? that sounds easy?
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Um, no! It's not easy and it's a great accomplishment!!!! Congratulations!!!!!
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Roshelle from Milwaukee
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Congrats on completing your first metric century!!! Yay for you!
Sounds like it was fun (minus the rain) and that you had a good time.
While the people at work don't undertand, WE surely can appreciate how awesome an accomplishment that is! :)
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Well Done and welcome to the club! so................when is your first century? lol
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Thank you guys... appreciate the support!
and CorsairMac, I hope my first century is just around the corner!
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Good Job
That is a great accomplishment! And, because of the rain you have a great story for your first metric century. IT's always those crazy things like rain or running over a squirrel or the day you saw a bald eagle that makes you remember things more vividly!
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What a riot about the rain and it only catching the two of you. Everyone else must have been so confused. lol
Very happy for you and your DH and your ride. :) Congrats!!!
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Congratulations. May you and your DH enjoy many more rides. :)
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Oh, that's great! Thanks for the mini ride report. Sorry about the rain, but as someone else said, it makes for a good story afterwards.
It's nice that you had someone to ride with. I did my first metric by myself, though I did find someone to ride with after starting--at about mile 7, another woman and I found that we were about matched in pace and we did the whole ride together. But no one at home understood--then. Since then, I've done a little indoctrination process so never again did I or will I arrive home to "ho-hum, so you rode your bike all day, big deal."
On the other hand, you couldn't find better congrats and encouragement than we get at these TE forums!:D
