I don't normally post in these threads but had to get this humbling experience off my chest--yesterday I was passed by a jogger while riding my bike!

I was taking it really easy yesterday (I had been feeling like crap, achy and bad headache and some tingling/numbness in one arm for about 24 hours, so I had gone to the doctor and discovered that my blood pressure was really high for no apparent reason; possibly just stress, possibly viral, possibly Lyme - I had an unfortunate encounter with a tick about two months ago. But in any event I wasn't going to push myself last night) and was riding a loop around a college campus where I knew I could get in a pretty good workout without anything especially challenging. On my last loop around, there was a jogger in front of me. It took me a bit to catch up with her at the bottom of a hill when I was going about 12 or 13 m.p.h. but I passed her and kept going. But when the hill got steeper I slowed way down and she apparently put on her jet pack--she flew by me and made it to the top of the hill long before me! I was going about 8 m.p.h. when she passed me.

I have to keep telling myself that she was half my age, probably a competitive college athlete, probably hadn't come off a 9 hour shift at work after being up in the night with a sick kid, and probably not suffering from high blood pressure. But really, back when I was a competitive college athlete with no particular responsibilities outside of my own interests, I could still not have run that fast!

And she was really cute, too.

Sarah