Long and slow

I am so tired and so sore and I still haven’t caught up with all of my notes, please forgive me!!! I did my 30km ride yesterday along the freeway.

I was up at 6am and there by 7am as the ride was meant to start at 7:30 and silly me thought I would start riding at 7:30. WRONG!! 8:30 I rang Paul and told him I still hadn’t started (he was due to pick me up at 9:30) and to sit tight and I would ring him once I was on the road.

Soon after 8:30 we finally got riding. What happened was they put everyone into groups and stagger started them, I was in the D group which was the last to go. I wish I had of known. I did’t put any sun screen on because I thought I would be done before the sun had any bight – wrong again. I was riding as we built up to the heat of the day, plus we had a horrid head wind that started 10kms in and didn’t let up. I have never done any huge amounts of road riding and I didn’t realise how hot the roads got. Needless to say I am now suffering from heat exhaustion, extremely burnt and due to the full on head wind very very sore. I am so glad I did all that training, I don’t know what kind of state I would be in if I didn’t!!!

I finally ate something this morning and I think it is going to come back up. Water is all I can seem to manage atm. I think today I am going to call in sick and go back to bed and die. I should go into work though….it is a short week due to easter and I have soooooooo much to do *sighs*

Ok going to have a shower and see if that improves my state of mind…

Just another little piece of me…..

DragonKat

March 20, 2005

wtg on making the whole ride, I’d have fallen dead off the bike about 2 minutes in. Take a nice cool shower and get some rest!

Spacefrog

March 21, 2005

Ouch! I hope you feel better soon! ((( HUGS )))

perfect circle

Hope you feel better soon *hugs*

Oh my goodness, what a turn of events for your ride. I hope you are not too burnt, and rehydrate as much as you can. I must also say, Awesome! You are doing an awesome job of getting yourself rewired. Hang in there.

You are awesome! I hope that you are feeling very proud of yourself because what you did was great! Did the shower help any??? Take it easy – you deserve to be treated like a queen! (Well, you always deserve to be treated like a queen, but you know what I mean!) (((hugs)))

Jacqui (2)

exhausted ~ well sweetie I think you are blinking amazing to make it!!!Not that I doubted it for a second 🙂 **HUGE HIGH FIVE & GOLD STAR ON FOREHEAD** Take the day off you deserve it & get some rest MMMmmmwah!

Girl, you rock! Sounds like you got one helluva workout. I remember riding on the road in the summer where you’d feel fine until you had to stop and then you’d be consumed by heat. Hope you recouperated okay.

Miss Melodramatic

April 1, 2005

Well at least you made it through, even though it doesn’t sound like the most pleasant ride in the world! Much Love, katie