24 miles

What a beautiful night! I can't think of a better way to spend a Wednesday night in the summer. Well, when my niece is busy that is... I'd rather be at Framingham summer track watching Elizabeth crush other 3 year olds in the 100 yard dash! Crush might be the wrong word, but she has big potential, the winning spirit, and focus like a hawk ... during the warm-up!

A couple weeks ago, a good friend of mine, Karen Henry tweeted "I want an app that can scan all of the piles of papers on my desk and beam the information into my head. Is that too much to ask?" Now my response is, I wish I had an app that can beam the pictures I take in my head of the glorious sunsets, picturesque golf courses, and tough hills onto my blog.

I promise to take pictures from one of the Wednesday night Landry rides, but for this trip I just tried to keep up and stay on my bike! The ride takes off from Cleveland Circle at 6pm sharp. I casually walked out of work a little after 5pm and jetted over to meet the group. I joined up with the medium group this summer. I rode with the Green Line Velo leisure group last summer for nearly 8 rides and only rode with the medium group once. This year, I am an "award winning" triathlete so I gave myself a promotion! Sensible move? Besides, I have much bigger goals for September - last year 12 miles for myself - this year 100 miles for Bottom Line!

We completed a 24 mile ride this evening and my legs feel like jelly. It's a good tired though. To my delight, I made a couple friends on my journey and all agreed that I would be able to easily accomplish a 100 mile ride in 2 months. I'm more than happy to have their vote of confidence, but their description of stringing together 5 20 mile rides doesn't exactly comfort my tired legs...

GVL Loop Medium Group

As you can see from the map, the group starts in Brookline and loops around Weston. We travel through two golf courses and lots of neighborhood. It's a general safe trip staying off main roads and traveling on nicely paved roads. The hardest part is keeping my eyes on the road while moving through the golf courses. I love golfing so much, but it looks like biking will my new favorite activity for this summer. Not only am I biking for Bottom Line, I'm giving up golf too - ha!

Ok! Time to figure out this weekend's ride schedule. Anyone have good training groups to join? I'm a member of two running clubs, but their calendars don't link up with biking ones... weird!