Now, a couple of weeks ago when riding with Crilli and Egg a suggestion was made for New Year's Day. Since neither Goose or I are much on New Year's Resolutions it was taken kinda lightly in the beginning. After riding for another hour the discussion started up again. It revolved around Goose was going to be stuck with me for about 10 days, I would not be able to do anything that would require lots of energy, Goose had to work on Jan 3 (Sat) and couldn't get started early on Sun (Jan 4) - so why not! It was a fairly weak commitment in the beginning, but as the days went by, he said "Why not? I'm in" At first I thought I could just get on the bike and "spin" for a couple of hours, well 6 days after surgery, I knew I couldn't. Couple of people thought about riding, but either didn't have trainers, or trainers that were easy to move. So, why not let them use mine.
I guess discussions had been with Tim and Chuck and Chuck decided to bite on the offer. Chuck gets here about 11:30 with Egg to follow about 11:45. At noon they are off and riding. Chuck had plans to make it as long as he could (which was just a little over 2 1/2 hours - I think). During the first 2 hours I sorta walked in and out of the ride (not happy I couldn't attempt it, smart enough to know the Dr would not be happy with me if I did).
They were all smiles before the riding started!
At different times during the DVDs I kept hearing "Now that is motivation". I finally decided to see exactly what their motivation was AND --- she was it -
Chuck was deciding if he was going on - his wife gave him the green light to stay, but he said his legs were telling him something different. I know Goose and Egg were thrilled he came up and stayed as long as he did. - Side note to Chuck- we begged Coach Troy not to let the air out of your tires (lol)
After Chuck left Goose switched off his fluid trainer to my mag. Goose's first expectation was to make to to 4 hours and then see how he felt. As Crilli would say, come on Goose what is another 3600 seconds? At the 4 hour point Egg looked over at Goose and said "toughen the F%CK UP!! " :) And, he did! I was really happy to see Goose and Egg make it to the 5 hour point. The 100 miles was reached within the 5 hours and I really am not sure why they continued to ride. I tried to get a picture of the 100 miles and it didn't turn our but the time did -
Long day for them riding - time seemed to go by quickly. I can say it is more fun to ride on the trainer than watch others ride.
Once again all smiles. As Coach Troy promised one rider, cold beer afterwards, Goose got his PoPo Juice and Egg his Rootbeer.What a way to start out the new year! Thanks Egg and TKO for giving Goose something to do!
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