Day 10

I'm still clean, but I had a real urge yesterday for a blizzard from DQ (Katie does that count as an drive-thru no-no? Some have drive thrus.)

Last night I did my first ever club ride, which was actually pretty fun. I'd gotten a sitter so my husband could join me - interesting what our idea of a date has evolved into over the years. I rushed around in the afternoon getting tires inflated, gear loaded and bikes on top of the car (a feat for me which requires a step stool) then I got dinner made for the sitter and little one and finished making our beds since I'd washed sheets and mattress pads earlier in the day. Jay came home changed clothes while I was prepping the sitter and we were off. The meet up point was only a couple of miles from our house and if it wasn't the first one and I'd had some idea what to expect we would have just ridden over there (but then of course that would be the day that Jay got stuck at work on the phone with a client or something).

It was a very small group - told they are usually much larger but in all there were 5of us - I was the only girl - go me! We headed out and I spent the first couple of miles chatting with the leader and then realized I'd forgotten to turn on my nifty new Garmin so which was a minor bummer.

We headed down C-470 to the Chatfield Reservoir which is a pretty easy downhill most of the way despite a strong headwind. We cruised up to the top of the dam back around and back up and over then headed for home. There was one part where I thought the crosswind would blow me off my bike, but I didn't have to worry for too long because it became a headwind again - how is that possible both coming and going?? By the end I was pretty tired and ready to be done (I am so not an evening workout person), we'd gone 20 miles (got some work to do to be ready for 32 miles at the end of August, but I can do it), ridden an hour and a half, gone through 1,217 ft of elevation gain, and burned more than 850 calories. And my first thought as we finished? Man, a DQ Blizzard would be so great right now!

Needless to say, or perhaps I do, but I did not have any ice cream - I was thankful that I'd made dinner beforehand so we had something to heat and eat after we got Megan to bed (unfortunately it wasn't a very good recipe and I won't be using it again).

So the next question is - Do I feel brave enough to try one of the hill climb rides? Well do you, Punk?