Dang--not today, either

Ok, so it was cold this morning, but Brenda was still feeling kind of crappy anyway.  She didn’t even go to church just so she could stay warm and rested.  So we thought we might go out in the afternoon, and it would’ve ordinarily been great riding weather, but not really when you’re not quite 100%.  And you know how those colds work—if you put yourself out there before you’re completely over it, the risk is you’ll end up worse than you were to begin with. 

So we figured it’d probably be best to take another couple of days off, and look forward to Tuesday morning.  So that means we lost a weekend.  Oh well.  But we did set ourselves up for a gain—the bike club is putting on a 6-day biking safari in North Florida and South Georgia, and we signed up.  Actually, we signed up as volunteers,  which means we’ll work 3 days and ride 3 days, but still—that’ll be 3 pretty solid days, plus (hopefully) a regular weekend ride after it’s all over.  So we should be able to gain some miles there.  There is a century option (100-mile ride) on two of those days (to allow the volunteers to get one in).  The safari is in late April... who knows?  She’s already done 60 miles very comfortably…  (but of course anybody who’s done a century knows that the first 60 miles are nothing—it’s the last 20 miles that are the real killers.)

But you never know with Brenda.  Heck, I’ve been married to her for 34 years and if there’s one thing I’ve come to know it’s that I never know with Brenda.  So she just might be ready to take on that century ride, I don’t know.  Once she gets over this cold we’ll get back into it and ride as much as possible.  I’d like to see her do it, but I don’t want to push her into something that she wouldn’t be ready for.  Ok, so we’ll see how that works out.