The previous day I had bailed from work early (yes, I'm on contract so I set my own hours). It was gorgeous, cold and sunny! I headed to the park to face my Nemesis, "the hill". After signing in I headed onto the trail that is fairly flat with slight grades until you get further into the forest, I figured I'd warm up and back track to the hill. Well, somewhere between turning around and getting back to the hill I totally lost ALL confidence and totally wimped and wiped out...I'm so dissappointed with myself, but I'm not going to beat myself up too much, we still have weeks of skiing left in the season...so you bastard, I'll break you, you won't break me!!! And yes, I fell, and said the "F" word, many.times. GAH!
Ruby will be going on the trainer this weekend, I check every day to see if the registration is open for the Rideau Lakes Bike Tour in June. I'm going to ride the 100k from Perth to Kingston, stay overnight at Queens University and ride back the next day. This was the tour I was to do last year but had to bow out because of my knee.
A good friend of mine asked me yesterday if will I be putting up my 2010 goal races on my sidebar like I have for the past several years. Well, in truth, I'm going to wait until it gets closer to race day before I register for events this year.
Last year I registered for a shit load of races early in the season and couldn't compete in ANY of them, so I reference 2009 as a year of very expensive coolmax Tshirts.
This Sunday is the Richmond Road Race, I am entered and will be running the 5K, and I have also registerd for what sounds like an absolute riot of a run in June. The Perth Kilt Run. If you are one of the first 500 hundred to register, you get a Kilt to run in, no kidding and you get to pick your kilt colour! Well, I picked Yellow (I hope it is tartan). My Scottish friend James is registered too, so it should be an absolute whoot!
Not too sure what else will catch my fancy this year, I am not going to run the same races over and over again, so I am looking further a-field and for some reason the Subaru IronMan 70.3 Muskoka keeps calling my name. We will see how the knee holds up when I increase the distance before I make my decision.
Vickie and I have been talking about meeting up for a get together race like we did two years ago, Jeff (who has fallen out of blogland) wants to get into the mix too! Maybe we can meet somewhere in the middle of Ottawa and Grand Rapids and get Shelley to join us for some fun too!!! This will definitely be a party!!
On a side note, I have had a ladybug living in my kitchen for months now. She was very active and noticable during Christmas, I would put out droplets of water and citrus juice for her and little bits of fruit for her to nibble on, then she flew off into another part of the house. I spotted her in the kitchen this morning and put out some apple for her....does anyone else have a ladybug living with them???
A good friend of mine asked me yesterday if will I be putting up my 2010 goal races on my sidebar like I have for the past several years. Well, in truth, I'm going to wait until it gets closer to race day before I register for events this year.
Last year I registered for a shit load of races early in the season and couldn't compete in ANY of them, so I reference 2009 as a year of very expensive coolmax Tshirts.
This Sunday is the Richmond Road Race, I am entered and will be running the 5K, and I have also registerd for what sounds like an absolute riot of a run in June. The Perth Kilt Run. If you are one of the first 500 hundred to register, you get a Kilt to run in, no kidding and you get to pick your kilt colour! Well, I picked Yellow (I hope it is tartan). My Scottish friend James is registered too, so it should be an absolute whoot!
Not too sure what else will catch my fancy this year, I am not going to run the same races over and over again, so I am looking further a-field and for some reason the Subaru IronMan 70.3 Muskoka keeps calling my name. We will see how the knee holds up when I increase the distance before I make my decision.
Vickie and I have been talking about meeting up for a get together race like we did two years ago, Jeff (who has fallen out of blogland) wants to get into the mix too! Maybe we can meet somewhere in the middle of Ottawa and Grand Rapids and get Shelley to join us for some fun too!!! This will definitely be a party!!
To Be Discussed!
On a side note, I have had a ladybug living in my kitchen for months now. She was very active and noticable during Christmas, I would put out droplets of water and citrus juice for her and little bits of fruit for her to nibble on, then she flew off into another part of the house. I spotted her in the kitchen this morning and put out some apple for her....does anyone else have a ladybug living with them???
Just one other question, what the hell happend to spell check on blogger???
Life's fun if you don't weaken,
Lily
