Gotta Get Back on that Wagon

I sort of cut myself off on my last post and what I didn't get to mention was that after I got confirmation I could indeed join the ride, and had filled out all the necessary paperwork, written a cheque, got all in an envelope, addressed and stamped it, I had a revelation. I'll be in Canada for almost the entire ride. Hard to be riding in Calafornia when your body is in Vancouver and Calgary! I'm still ticked off about that.

Another derailment of my training was a trip to Vancouver last week for my MIL's 80th birthday. It was a sort of surprise. She knew Bob & Don (sons) were coming due to a slip up, but didn't know me and our kids were coming. The parties were fun but the weather stunk. Unless you like rain and overcast skies. I've been whining about getting out of the snow, and I did. I went to rain. But now that I'm back in Frisco it's snowing again. I have to admit it was sunny and warmish this morning. I did a drive around town to see if my running route was all dry roads and it was. Of course, that was then and this is now and now they're covered in snow again.

I got up at 5:25 to go to spin class this morning. You would think that by the middle of March the classes would be getting easier but such is not the case. I seem to be losing conditioning with each passing week. So, in an effort to get things going the right direction, I did a slow mile on the treadmill after class and then did hall lunges around the track. ONCE around the track. I thought I was going to keel over. I'm sure my butt will be singing tomorrow. I'm going to try and go to spin again tomorrow morning as it seems I'm not going to start running outside anytime soon. It's supposed to snow off and on until Sunday.

Bob is going to meet with the bike guy tomorrow to work on getting his new Ritchey Breakaway set up. I hope he likes it when it's all done. I personally am not fond of the paint job so I've been looking at custom paint jobs online. There's way more info for motorcycles but I did find something I like a lot through Trek's Project One site. I'd post a picture but I can't figure out how to pick it off their site. Guess what? It's got orange and yellow frames coming into black. Very very cool! Hot actually.

While we were in Vancouver, I decided I needed to get a pattern and yarn to make a Siwash or Cowichan sweater. Great idea but bad timing apparently. The company that makes the yarn stopped production in 1996. I thought, no problemo, I'll go online and find it. Hah! so I thought. I found one person on EBay selling off the remnants of some skeins but nothing else. And yet, there is a website from a tribe in BC who are selling sweaters that are made to order. Where the H E Double Hockey Sticks are they getting their yarn? The tricky thing about this yarn is that it is unspun so it isn't a simple matter of substitution. You have to find unspun yarn and that is turning out to be a challenge. Always a day (or a decade + in this case) and a dollar short! Oh well, when would I find the time anyway?

Dang, I'm In Another One

Well, I got into Ride the Rockies. And my training has fallen completely off the wagon. Never mind the details but getting the flu after returning from Mexico was not good. I haven't been on the spinner, skis or snowboard for a very long time. So, it's time to get going again. I did run in Mexico and it felt very good. Sea level is so great!

So tomorrow morning at 6:15AM it's back to spin class with a vengeance. Wednesday I'm going to see about getting my Trek behaving and ordering a breakaway Ritchie. Today, I signed up for another BAC ride in California. This one is in May and is the Russian River area north of San Francisco.