Team Tokyo Joes

Only 3 days left until Team Tokyo Joe's hits 35 miles of the streets of Longmont/Boulder. I'm very excited and think this will be a lot of fun. Aid stations along the way are said to have chocolate!!! Anyone can ride 35 miles with chocolate to fuel them right? I'm already thinking of the 65 miler for next year!

Actually I know that I can ride 35 miles, since my friend Heather and I went out for a test run a couple of weekends ago and it was no problem - we threw in a couple of good hills, so the only worry at this point will be the hills along the route on Sunday. We even had a flat tire, Heather's, along the way and we stopped and changed it like pros - thank you Sonja! And considering that same weekend Lance Armstrong was in the Colorado mountain town of Leadville (think 10,000 feet above sea level) doing a 100 mile mountain bike race (along with kick-ass trainer & friend Cyndi!) and he got a flat tire and didn't even know how to change it! But he still won the race by something like 30 minutes - on a flat tire! But I've decided I'm having another flat tire party and inviting Lance. Oh and there was that one minor point where I tried to kill myself, by coming into a roundabout way too fast. How I stayed upright I have no idea, although the guy that happened to be behind Heather and I commented that it must have been my athletic skill and agility. I liked him. Don't we look impressive though.

Then speaking of chocolate, I'm done. I'm going sugar-free again (in terms of junk food) again starting August 31st. I will not have any junk food, sweets, or treats again until October 25th (my birthday - a girl has got to have birthday cake and ice cream, right?) These 55 days will be known as "No Junk in the Trunk".

I went sugar-free over the summer for about 30 days and I felt great, my training was fantastic, and I just felt great . . . that is until I got sick for about 3 weeks straight and all was lost. And now I'm back to being a sugar addict.

I don't know if my training was doing so well because of the lack of sugar or not but I know it didn't hurt.

So if you want to join me in making a change in your life too I'd love the company. Katie, has said she will join in - but I'll leave it up to her to explain what she's decided to give up. My friend Amy, has already given up the sugar this month - Go Amy!!!