Shifting Gears
OK, life is starting to come back together now, those potholes in the road really rattle everything.
All right, where to start...OK, first, the kids love the new preschool. We love the new preschool, I've put the teachers through the pre-K equivalent to the Spanish Inquisition and they've all endured it smiling, and without missing a beat. Hard to fake that kind of dedication, so I think that this place is a keeper.
Next, I managed to get out for a 20-mile ride today, and I got to use a new gear on my bike!!! Seriously, I thought there were only so many, but it turns out that there was just so much gunk in the gears that I guess number seven was stuck or something. After taking it to Cool Accent Bike Shop Guy, I now have another big gear, and this translates into another 2-3 mph on the flats and the downhills. I just wish that I'd have figured it out on SEBA #1! Maybe then I'd have only had to eat a few flavors of VM and Shelley's dust, and not the whole Baskin Robbins collection. BUT, it looks like SEBA #3 might be a go after all, so maybe I'll get a little redemption out there next Tuesday.
On a side note, I like the shift that's happening now. I'm not sure what it is, exactly, but life without Steelhead stress and panic is a good thing. The race is two weeks away now, and I'm still good, still calm, and still in the no-freak-out zone. I guess that it's all finally in perspecive - life is about more than a race, even if it is the race of your life so far.
All right, where to start...OK, first, the kids love the new preschool. We love the new preschool, I've put the teachers through the pre-K equivalent to the Spanish Inquisition and they've all endured it smiling, and without missing a beat. Hard to fake that kind of dedication, so I think that this place is a keeper.
Next, I managed to get out for a 20-mile ride today, and I got to use a new gear on my bike!!! Seriously, I thought there were only so many, but it turns out that there was just so much gunk in the gears that I guess number seven was stuck or something. After taking it to Cool Accent Bike Shop Guy, I now have another big gear, and this translates into another 2-3 mph on the flats and the downhills. I just wish that I'd have figured it out on SEBA #1! Maybe then I'd have only had to eat a few flavors of VM and Shelley's dust, and not the whole Baskin Robbins collection. BUT, it looks like SEBA #3 might be a go after all, so maybe I'll get a little redemption out there next Tuesday.
On a side note, I like the shift that's happening now. I'm not sure what it is, exactly, but life without Steelhead stress and panic is a good thing. The race is two weeks away now, and I'm still good, still calm, and still in the no-freak-out zone. I guess that it's all finally in perspecive - life is about more than a race, even if it is the race of your life so far.
posted by Wil at 3:26 PM
5 Comments:
Im glad you are getting some perspective on things. Sounds like you had great ride today.
good... you're back in the right gear... spinning 90... everything's right in your world again!
You be groovin', girl. Go!
Kermit
Freeee speeeeeedd! I'm glad that you got your bike fixed and everything is working more smoothly with it now.
You're in the zone!! And that's a great place to be!
"...the race of your life so far."
Heh, heh. That little phrase kinda sums it all up in a perspectively-pressured kinda way. :)
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