A well-deserved day off

Ok, so you know what comes after a 114-mile weekend and a 220-mile week?  A day off, that’s what! 

At a rest stop on our ride yesterday we met a girl who was re-habbing a hip injury that she attributed to a lack of stretching after hard rides.  (As Brenda and I sat there listening, we both found ourselves subconsciously reaching down and stretching out our legs...)  And I get it too—I’ve noticed before how stiff I can get for example if I get off the bike and sit right down in the car to drive home without stretching first.  Getting out of the car in the driveway at home is significantly different from getting in the car in the ride parking lot.

A couple of years ago Brenda and I both started doing a little yoga at the Y.  We both really enjoy it, but the only thing is, we’ve found that the more we ride, the less we find ourselves at the Y.  So Brenda made sure to make today a yoga day.  (Even though we both made it a point to stretch pretty well before we got in the car yesterday, it’s one thing to do a couple of stretches for a few minutes, but it’s a whole different thing to do an hour or so of yoga.  Now that’s stretching.) 

So now we’ll have to see whether or not the weather makes tomorrow a day off too.  It rained last night (a real gully-washer at one point) and it’s been cloudy most of the day.  They’re predicting some rain for tomorrow, but we’ll see what happens.  Either way, though, it’ll be good.  If it rains, she gets another recovery day (two in a row never hurt, and she's got enough miles in the bank now that it won't put her in the hole.)  And if the weather is nice then she gets to do her regular Tuesday morning ride.  It's a win-win!