No Knuckleheads

Yesterday I rode like a girl with some of my teammates over the course of our next road race. Its a challenging course, though short (30 miles). Of course, its challenging because its hilly. Not just rolling hills, oh no, this is hilly as in "lets climb the stair-steps of Cummings Highway) hilly.

Now, at 6' and 185lbs (at last weigh in) I'm not exactly built to climb. Those skinny minni girls can fly up, they don't have the weight dragging at them that I do. I try to make up for it with sheer power, but that only lasts so long and I become toast. So, I climbed. In fact, I climbed the stairsteps twice, just to really get to know them. Because of my ride yesterday, I decided I wanted to ride with the boys today. I wanted miles too. We agreed that since the bike club had a good ride planned that we could do that one.

Then we decided to start earlier, because several of the guys had things to do in the afternoon, and it was supposed to get pretty warm later in the day.

Then as we were riding we decided to alter the course slightly and go over....... Cummings Highway. Again.

Let me tell ya, it was less comfortable the third time. The good news is, the boys didn't drop me.

That's right. I'm getting stronger. Sure, I was last one up Suck Creek Mountain, sure I was last one up the Cummings stairsteps. I expected that. The good thing is, I kept them in sight (or at least some of them). So, for once the No Knuckleheads didn't drop me like a lead balloon at the end of our metric. Maybe someday I'll keep up with the ones that stayed Just Ahead of me on the climbs too.