Fourth and beyond.
7/06/2006 10:27:00 AM
It seems no amount of pestering by moi can convince Dana to actually post to the blog, so don't be surprised if it changes back to simply "Mr. Sideways" again. Or maybe she's stuck in permanent vacation mode. I got up at 6:45 today, and the phone didn't wake her up until three hours later. What you gonna do? I think she's just doing it to rub it in that she doesn't start work until Monday.
That being said, we had a great Fourth. We started the day with a 20-mile ride at about 8am, joining D's boss Ron, his wife Lisa, and their (nearly) 1-year old. 20 miler, no problem, right?
WRONG. They were taking it way easy on us (Ron was even trailing the baby behind him on the bike), and they destroyed us. Of course, we are in Colorado, so they were hardly flat roads. The first 8 miles were hilly but not too bad, but the last two miles was a steady ascent, until the last 500 yards or so which kick up even higher. Yikes. Add to our being out of shape (and not knowing how to pace our effort, having never been on this ride before) the fact that we're still getting acclimated to the altitude, and you have the most embarassing short ride EVER. I literally can't remember the last time I went on a ride that SHORT - but it was truly punishing.
Sadly, I didn't have the camera OR the GPS. D and I plan on riding it again today so I can bring the GPS and see if we're really just sissies or if it was really as bad as I remember. I'm GUESSING that we climbed between 1500-2000 ft in the short 20 miles, so we'll see about that. Add to everything else the fact that neither of our computers are unpacked yet, and we had no real way to gauge what we were doing other than by feel. Yikes.
The 2-mile descent, however, was pretty freaking cool. Avoiding the cow pies in the road added an additional challenge.
Immediately after the ride, we got a couple cups of coffee to go and watched the parade. I can't remember the last parade I went to that wasn't Chicago's St. Patty's Day parade, so it was pretty fun. Picture small town Americana parade extraordinaire, and you've got it. We rode home on sore butts afterwards (oh, yeah - the ride home is a half mile up a huge hill too, by the way, so that was fun), had some lunch, and took a nap. After napping, we went to a couple of parties with D's coworkers and met all kinds of people - we really had a great time. We followed that up by heading to D's coworker's house to chill and watch the fireworks, then headed home.
All-in-all, it was a great day (even the sufferfest was great). Actually, the ride was great until we were a mile and a half into that hill and realized it kept going up, up, UP!
Like I said, I'll bring the GPS and then get an elevation profile posted up so you can all see what we're putting ourselves through up here. Colorado living can be really tough. ;)
I can't really complain today, though - D ran five miles yesterday in these hills. Yikes.
Oh, and please note that Hutch is now dead to me, as tomorrow will mark the one-month-no-post mark.
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3 Comments:
Sounds like the perfect place for you guys! :)
posted at 12:06 PM
Everytime you write about SBS, it seems to be more and more perfect. So much so that I'm getting a "It's too perfect...." feeling. Perhaps there is some type of Funny Farm conspiracy going on here, and all the town's people have been paid off by Chevy Chase to act nice and perfect and have all sorts of fun so he can sell you his farm.
Chevy Chase isn't trying to sell you a farm, is he?
Also, watch out for crazy postman who throw the mail out of a moving truck and shoot your mailbox. That guy's hilarious.
posted at 12:38 PM
I'm very happy for you both...and jealous of course. I keep thinking of BCP sandwich shop...mmm good.
FAS
posted at 4:28 PM
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