Tough Love

This blog will have to wait until Monday. It certainly was a full house with TKO, Goose, Red Dog, Guru, Big Tim, Rhino, Egg and Noose. I am too tired (but satisfied) to blog tonight.

Missed a Few Days

I can tell I haven't felt well - my mind was fuzzy and got days/dates messed up - unusual for me! Anyway - Egg came up Wed night with the reassurance that I am not contagious. I did stay away while they rode. Egg chose my favorite - Hills Baby :) I knew Goose probably would not have ridden, so I am glad Egg was in the house. I could hear him starting to push buttons about half way through - it felt weird to hear them and not be riding. Goose seemed to be happy with the ride, He has been working really hard this month (and it is ONLY January - Yes Jeff we know that ----- but you lose that excuse in a couple more days!). Between running hard and riding hard - hopefully he will see a big difference when he gets on the road (earlier than last).

Egg plans on coming up Friday night - I am still up in the air if I am riding. Sunday will be a long hard day - not sure if I want to chance not being over this crap.

Monday?

Yep it was Monday - that is what the calendar said! Goose did his normal workout at the Y. He actually got out of work on time - not many people at the Y so he workout went fast.

The cold that I caught from a couple of kids at school caught up with me. Decided to take a night off - not what I wanted to do but thought it was best. I get a little ticked off when people send their kids to school sick - love it - Oh I didn't know they were coughing that bad - or I didn't realize that green/yellow stuff was coming from their nose!

I think Jeff was feeling Fri/Sat/Sun hard workout in his legs. I'm lucky - my legs feel good - it is just the stuffy head that is getting me!

Good Day of Training

As long as the weather is crappy there is a standing time on Sunday for trainer rides. They are typically longer and you just never know what it will be or who is coming (well except the usual nutz - Goose, Egg and me). Today it looked like TKO and Red Dog were heading to Tipp also. Got an email from TKO that his daughter was sick and needed to stay home. Mad Dog left a message last night that he was definitely in.

Saturday Jeff ran with Mark and they got in about 9 1/2 miles of trail running. Jeff said his legs felt "OK" for the miles he ran yesterday.

After the good ride Egg had outside with Rick, Tim, Vince and Todd I had sent him a tweet about adding the Prologue and Super Spins at the end of No Slackers to the end of Dropping The Hammer - he was in - we just think Goose needed to know ahead of time.

We warmed up to Lance TDF for a few minutes and then it was time to get down to business. There were a few times that Egg was the only one able to talk - so he talked, cheered and coached us. That hour went by very quickly - everyone was working hard. I put in the second DVD - Goose knew we were doing the Prologue but didn't listen to everything we said, so he went all out and thought he was done - nope he had a little more to go - the look on his face was priceless! For the cool down he got off a little early - so he had to ride a little extra for his penalty time.

After the ride we chatted for a couple of minutes and everyone headed home. Another excellent training day in the books. Thanks Egg for the coaching - Mark glad you were able to make it ------ Now next Sunday - is another run of Tough Love ---- hmmm who will show up (well beside Egg, Goose and I)?

HA HA HAAAAA

Friday night trainer ride in the books - thank heavens. Egg got here a little early so we could get a few minutes warm up before Goose got home. He announced what was on the agenda - I asked if told Goose - Yep and he said Goose was up for it. I wondered if he talked to "my" Goose!

Goose got home and changed, jumped on for a few minutes of warm up and it was time to get busy on No Slackers. This has an excellent mix of everything we need - fast spins, standing, 5k Prologue. Goose is usually making his famous sounds about 10 minutes in - tonight he hung tough and barely made any noise. The one time I could really use him to drown out the room with his calls - he doesn't. I have to admit I let out a little one, hoping nobody heard it - wrong - Egg casually mentioned it while we were eating.

It was a good ride - Egg and Goose were spinning their legs off - I was hanging on but having fun. Of course, I asked Goose if he had fun - Yep - since we were all done - which is the usual answer for him.

Dinner after was just as fun as ever. We (err me - ha ha) solved all the problems of being married which brought laughs from the guys. Talked about upcoming events and had lots of laughs. Isn't that what life is about - working hard, playing hard and laughing about it afterwards?

Sunday will be a long day on the trainer - looking forward to it.

Recovery Day

After last night's trainer ride, recover was on tap for Goose and I. Goose had planned a water workout to get the junk out of his legs. I wanted to spin, a very easy one. I had to go to Sam's Club first and I always stay on I-75 during rush hour - headed down 25A and got about a mile from the house with a detour. Couldn't tell what was going on - looked like maybe a wreck. On the way home - started home on 25A - almost got to the old Ginghamsburg Church and total stand still - pulled a U turn and headed down back roads again.

I was 30 minutes out of sync with the time I wanted to be in - do I ride - to say to hell with it. I serious changed my clothes and sat down on the couch - kicked my self in the butt and changed into my cycling clothes. One hour in the saddle and feel great - best thing I could have done.

Just watched the news and found out somebody had put a bomb in the house that had been foreclosed on in the area that was block off. Just found out somebody I worked with was showing the home and found the "bomb" ticking. Luckily got everyone out and called police ----- People are Nutz!

Riding Away the Stuff

I think most are aware of what is going with Egg's mom and many have expressed thoughts, prayers and support to get through this life's trial. It looks like everything was discovered early - which is excellent. Many years ago I was diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer in Stage 2. I was young and probably in denial. I had a family and it was my job to take care of my family. I somehow think Egg's mom will probably be the same. She is going to have a rough road for a while but will come out strong. After all, Egg had to get his hard head and determination from somewhere - which I would say is from his parents.

Tonight's agenda was Hillacious. Egg, Goose and I rode our hearts out tonight. I think in our own little way we were helping Egg's mom through the night. We all rode hard. It was a quiet ride, which is VERY unusual - but we all had our own thoughts and agenda for tonight.

Afterward - dinner, rut beer, popo juice and good conversation. Once again, thanks Craig for an excellent workout and positive talk afterwards. You say we could do it without you - no we couldn't - we wouldn't want to.