I weighed myself this morning. I was 213.1. Drat….one pound away from that elusive 10 pound gone goal. No fear. I WILL conquer it! (plus this will give me more time to look for that perfect charm!)
On Monday night I walked with Sherry and I admitted to her that I was having serious doubts about completing my mileage goals for this month. Yeah, I’ve literally ridden or otherwise propelled myself about one hundred miles (ok, I think as of right now it is 89 miles…but seriously, don’t we all round up in that case?) in the last week to put myself in spitting distance of this mileage goal. I was fighting that fat mini me that was telling me to quit. Why bother. The fat mini me was telling me that “You are tired” and “seriously why does it matter anyway?” I was starting to listen to the voice.
Once I voiced it with Sherry and she gave me her support (Thanks Sherry…you are tops!) it was out in the open. I can’t say that I was gung ho to finish the challenge after our talk…but I DID get on the exercise bike and knocked out a few miles last night. And this morning I got up and rode. After my ride this morning I find myself with 37.57 miles left to complete before midnight Saturday night. That is about 9.39 each of the remaining 4 days. I can do this if I ride each and everyday. My walk with Sherry on Thursday eveningis extra…as is my planned lunch time walk with Shantel at work on Thursday. Maybe with those extra miles I can finish this up on Friday and be one day early!!
My ride this morning was a good one. I just felt good. Yeah, my legs screamed at me a few times. Yeah, my right wrist kept going numb. Yeah I was breathing hard on a few of the hills. But you know what? It was a damn good ride! And the numbers proved it!
I screeched to a halt (ok, my bike doesn’t screech…but it sounded so awesomely dramatic didn’t it?) in my drive way and whipped out my cell phone that was tracking my stats through the app mapmyride (That is the app/website that I use to track my progress). I glanced down at the numbers while I wheeled my bike onto the deck. I started grinning from ear to ear. I added almost 2 miles to my ‘typical’ distance today and pushed myself over the number that I wanted to see today. I then noticed my average speed. Yup…I’m the killer! I’ve been averaging about 12.5 and today I knocked out a 13.2 average speed. WEEEE
