I am a bad person

[singletrackmind]

Some of 'em are scared because some of us are faster!

[LBTC]

Smurf, you are NOT a bad person. At least you are doing something *else* you enjoy when you aren't riding your bike. I've been completely unmotivated for months!! It was 4 weeks ago (or was it more?) that our friends were here for the weekend. That was the last time I was on a bike. Prior to that was about a month, too. It's not like I'm doing much else with my time, either. I mean, life is busy - work, food, dogs, house renovations, photography....but I can think of many a time that I've simply veg'd out and done nothing, when I could have gone for a ride, or even put the bike on the trainer. And lately I just eat non-stop while sitting at my desk. The work is too detailed and I get lost in it and need to.....well....anyway, so between eating too much and not riding my bike for no good reason, I feel like I don't deserve all of you! I have still been kickboxing whenever I can make it (missed 2 classes to a "stomach flu" last week), so I'm not completely slug girl....

And Queen and Trek, my DH is about to try the work 2 days, have a 5 day weekend. The weekend shift is 2- 10 hour shifts and a 12 hour shift in a 48 hour stretch from Friday night to Sunday night, then all week off. He'll get paid for 40 hours, too. We need him on that shift for when (I refuse to say IF), I get a transfer to our Vernon office. It will be about a 4 hour drive once a week, so we hope he likes the shift. Also, with all those days off each week, we should make great progress on our house's facelift. The sister-in-law may come for Christmas (if we're still here) and the new flooring and paint and doors and other niceties shoulld be done by then.

Anyway, I'll let you know how he likes the whole 5 days off thing. Too bad I work the 5 days he gets off, eh?

So, smurf, you are definitely not nearly as bad a person as I am, and I insist that I'm only a little bad!!

Namaste,
~T~

[Michelemarrano]

Hi ladies--I ride a Bianchi Boardwalk outfitted with racing wheels and racing crankset. I do charity rides (the MS 150) and I log appx 50-70 miles per week while working full-time and having a family with a husband, two girls and a dog.

I'm now 44 years old and when I started my family, I outlived my mare, a Five-Gaited American Saddlebred whom I had from high school into my early 30's. Before I met my husband, most men were really put off by my equestrian hobby, not to mention my livelihood as a FedEx station manager (since 1984!!).

In 1986 I brought my then future husband out to the barn to meet my mare after dating him for a few weeks. My mare ALWAYS had commentary on the company I brought out to the barn and had a bag of tricks reserved for those who she deemed "undesirable". She fell in love with my husband instantly and looked out for him when he attempted to ride her. Eventually we bought him a Saddlebred bay gelding which he rode as a hunter-jumper. We have been married almost 20 years now.

Then came kids and our having outlived our horses. I felt a void in my life until I really starting cycling 5 years ago. My mother, never a horsewoman, was smoking a cig in my garage, eyeing the acculumation of bicycles which have engulfed my garage and said to my husband,

"Jeezus!! It's as bad now with the bikes as it was with the horses!!"