How do we do it? I often sit in awe reading about these long rides taken and I ask myself "How do they find the time?"

Today:

Up at 6 - Take care of job related paper work, get the princess off to school, confirm tonight's little league game with DH, start laundry.

Realize the boy's too sick to go to school, medicate him and get him settled in for the morning. Make a couple of business calls, move the laundry around (washer to dryer, dryer to basket)

Head out for a ride - a rolling 22 mile loop.

Stop back at home to check on the boy, return a couple of business calls. Make sure all is well, head out for a ride - a flat straight shot out to the ocean and back (22 miles)

Get home, feed the boy, move the laundry, shower, grab the boy and head out to run errands before the princess gets home and Mom's taxi opens for business.

I'm riding in the Tour de Cure on June 2. I'm trying to get out on my bike every chance I get to get some miles under me. I'm telling you ladies - I don't know HOW you do it. After work, by the end of the day after dinner, chores, errands and parenting I'm exhausted and in bed by 10. Tomorrow I'm teaching 8 - 3 then 5 - 8pm.

Weekends are filled to the brim with Little League, traveling baseball, in law visits, chores, errands, take the princess here, pick her up from there. If I can squeeze a 90 min ride out it's a miracle and even then my cell is bound to go off at least once while I'm out there. (I almost never ride on the weekends)

If it wasn't for this June 2 ride coming up, I probably wouldn't care. Being a wife and mom, holding down a job, these are all things I love and embrace in my life and am more than happy to invest the time to do well- but with this ride coming up, I'm starting to freak.

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