Bike
I had to go to Marin to pick up Ryan's bike this morning. I took advantage of being up there and went for a ride. Ryan (with his dad) are doing The Relay, a relay run from Calistoga to Marin, so I was alone for my ride. It was nice being out on the road with my thoughts. It is how I remember riding when I first began to love cycling.
The road out caught me by surprise with a good climb at the beginning. This was followed by a long gradual descent. The descent made me nervous because I felt like I was riding down hill forever and had no idea how I was going to make the climb back up. It ended up being NOTHING, when I got to the top I thought I was just at the beginning of the climb. I guess it was really gradual. The ride was nice, nothing special as far as effort or distance, but nice.
I think I am getting sick. blah
Follow my journey as I prepare for Barb's Race on July 31. This will be my first half ironman as well as my first time to follow a strict training program. I am nervous so hopefully writing will keep me grounded!
Scheduled Triathlons
5.23.10 - Sprint Distance - Auburn Triathlon - Railhead Park Soccer Fields - Auburn, CA06.27.10 - Olympic Distance - Golden Gate Triathlon - Crissy Field - San Francisco, CA
07.31.10 - Half-Ironman- Barb's Race - Johnson's Beach - Guerneville, CA
About Me
- Kimberly Mowbray
- I live in Northern California with my sweet husband Ryan and our moody dog Samara. We spend all the time we can outside enjoying the beauty that is around us. I also recently got my MFA in photography...check out my website KimberlyMowbray.com
How this got started
To give you some background...A bit of a tradition started for us last year. My husband decided to 'celebrate!?!' his 30th birthday he would ride a crazy bike ride called the Terrible Two. The Terrible Two is a 200 mile bicycle ride that his dad put together years ago. His dad did this to try to create the most difficult double century and by many accounts he accomplished it. This is the madness that I married into.
Our tradition came to be over dinner one night when my husband, Ryan, asked me what I planned on doing to celebrate my 30th birthday. Now celebrate is a very strange choice of words if you ask me. He is really asking me 'how would you like to suffer' and somehow in his athletic mind this translates to celebrate. I said I would do the Double Dipsea a 14 mile run with 4500 feet of climbing. Ryan's response to this was that the quad dipsea was closer to my birthday and I should try that WHAT?? His expectation was 28 miles and 9000 feet of climbing. That threw the whole dipsea idea out the window. Ryan quickly learned that his dismissal of my goal was hurtful and frustrating to me. So when I settled on the goal of a half ironman (who knows where the idea came from) he did not think to say 'maybe you should challenge yourself with a full ironman,' although I am sure that the thought did enter his mind.
To train for this event I am following a training book that I purchased. I will be swimming and running Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays cycling Tuesday, Thursday and Saturdays and blogging often. I also threw in that I would not drink Diet Pepsi and limit my alcohol intake to once a week . I think the real reason we do this is to go into 30 the healthiest that we can. Maybe it takes the sting out of being done with my 20s??
Our tradition came to be over dinner one night when my husband, Ryan, asked me what I planned on doing to celebrate my 30th birthday. Now celebrate is a very strange choice of words if you ask me. He is really asking me 'how would you like to suffer' and somehow in his athletic mind this translates to celebrate. I said I would do the Double Dipsea a 14 mile run with 4500 feet of climbing. Ryan's response to this was that the quad dipsea was closer to my birthday and I should try that WHAT?? His expectation was 28 miles and 9000 feet of climbing. That threw the whole dipsea idea out the window. Ryan quickly learned that his dismissal of my goal was hurtful and frustrating to me. So when I settled on the goal of a half ironman (who knows where the idea came from) he did not think to say 'maybe you should challenge yourself with a full ironman,' although I am sure that the thought did enter his mind.
To train for this event I am following a training book that I purchased. I will be swimming and running Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays cycling Tuesday, Thursday and Saturdays and blogging often. I also threw in that I would not drink Diet Pepsi and limit my alcohol intake to once a week . I think the real reason we do this is to go into 30 the healthiest that we can. Maybe it takes the sting out of being done with my 20s??
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