Ride Report

30 miles round-trip today.

Ride in: On the iPod--Beck--"Guero"
Only 96 for a hight today in Tucson, so this morning was nice and cool--77 degrees. Rain clouds hung on the mountains. I left from the YMCA and road Ina to Skyline to Sunrise.

So got in and talked with Dr. Steve (head doctor at TMC and cyclist) who was just finishing up in the locker room. He told me he's been using this stuff he gets at Trader Joe's. It looks like Slim Fast type stuff. I might try it. Slim Fast is crammed full of potassium and calcium--but there's a lot of junk in it too. Then there's Ensure. Some of the Randonneurs swear by Ensure--which I thought was just for very old sick people. But the TV adds have healthy greying baby boomers driving in a red Corvette, and drinking that shit. Also the ad implys they have hot monkey love because they drink Ensure--like its fortified with Viagra. Mainly its crammed full of patassium and calcium...

I was so hungry when I got into the office--my time for the 15 mile commute (mostly climbing) was 56 minutes. That's 4 to 5 minutes off my regular time. I was so hungry that by 10 am I ate all the lunch I packed, and had to go buy a lunch in the cafiteria at Noon. Some creepy TMC employee lady kept making snort sounds and stood too freakin close to me in the line.

Ride home--head wind. But I didn't have to stop and rest at the Circle K on La Cholla and Orange Grove like I usually have to do. That's because I drank as much water as I cold about an hour before I left for home--like my belly was swollen. And I ate a cliff bar so I didn' bonk.

The best thing about today is that it wasn't 90 degrees at 6:30 am for the ride in, and wasn't 106 degrees for the ride home. It was like 10 degrees cooler. I felt really happy and things seemed green and spring-like. My heart was light!

For the first time in a long time, there wasn't that feeling that the sun was steadily vaporizing my body and soul. Damn! Where is a pretty girl to kiss when you need one? That's how good it felt not to ride home in a blast furnace!

Luv