My 8 yo is always craving mom/dad time. So I asked if she wanted to go for a rumble on her bike. I asked if she wanted to go farther than last time, and the smiles she had. No concerns, only grins and smiles and questions and let me show you’s!
It called, so I went
ight as the kids were about to go to sleep, I looked outside, saw how much light there was, and was like, “I’m out of here.” So, went for a gravel grinder. I was able to leave right from my door and then go up to what we call the switchbacks. In the Greater Cache Valley, we have the Logan River Trail system.
I need to keep riding and riding and riding. I don’t have races on my radar at this point so its time to just build. Sure come July I have the Cache Valley Tri, but let’s see what base I can get in. There were two major efforts in this ride that were 2 miles and 3 miles efforts and for being in a come back phase – I am pleased and grateful for the outputs. As they say, just keep on pedaling. on!
I do this so that when I am in an event and have to make decisions, I can be as most prepared as possible to read my body despite all the things beyond my control. I chose this ride as it was suggested to me, and this one was great, I didn’t finish as i was fitting it between meetings, but combine this with yesterday and I have the volume I wanted between the two sessions.
“Solitude allows you to reflect while others are reacting. We need solitude to refocus on prospective decision-making, rather than just reacting to problems as they arise. You have some external stimulus, then you go back to your experience, your education, and you see what needs to be done.”
From retired four-star Marine Corps General James Mattis
This ride is funny because the visual and the rout have time drifts as its just virtual and not a preferred or supported Rouvy route, but this gives me some insights on the profile of the course. Having ridden this section 4 times in a 70.3 and a large section in reverse during Salt to Saint, there are a lot of different memories that occur on the course virtual or in real life. Well, here we just keep going.
Honestly, I’m still trying to process it all. It was 45 minutes of interesting. At least I got in another 13 or so miles of recovery with a few efforts . What just happened.
Planning for things is always an adventure with 4 kiddos. I was monitoring work as I rode at first too. I was able to come back and finish this one out strong and even got to ride my physical gravel bike to go fetch my kiddo.