Yep, this pretty, shiny, sexy bike is my nemesis.
I don’t know why, but i can’t seem to get on the darn thing and ride it. Maybe it’s too pretty, shiny and sexy...maybe I’m just not that into it.
I used to love riding my bike when I was a kid. My bike was turquoise with a sparkly banana seat. Oh, and a little portable radio attached to my handle bars. Rode that bike everywhere.
Then of course I became a teenager and didn’t ride a bike ever.
We did ride when my son was younger, but now not so much.
I find it really difficult, my quads don’t like the bike. They scream at me every time I get on and start to peddle. Is running messing with the muscles I need to ride? Or maybe I’m not just that into it.
But I want to be, I want to love riding, I have to love riding.
I wouldn’t even care about riding, except my husband is a bike rep and well our house is full of bike. Naturally I decided I should ride (he should ride to, but we won’t go there).
Unfortunately after the training for the half, kicked my butt, I thought I should try something else, a new challenge that might not be so challenging. I thought I might want to try a duathlon, (I hate swimming so a tri was out of the question) not a full du, the shorter sprint duathlons. Unfortunately I said this out loud and unfortunately my husband heard this. So he ordered me one of his bikes (He reps Focus), but being only 4’11” the bike was slightly too big. No worries he called his buddies in Toronto and asked them to fix me up. And of course they did. That’s how I became the owner of this gorgeous bike (a little overkill, but if you knew my husband you’d understand)
Meet my nemesis conqueror Lindsay. Lindsay is my trainer at PISE.
When we met for my assessment she asked me what my goals were. I told her the usual, but I also told her about my bike and how I wanted to learn to love riding and I wanted to ride in the Tour de Victoria. Just the 50K nothing too crazy.
Lindsay thought about it (maybe a little too much) and came up with a plan to conquer my nemesis.
So on my cardio day, I climb on the spin bike in the gym. I’m starting out slowly. Very slowly. I’m thinking that if I can barely get through a 20 minute interval session, how the heck am I going to ride 50K. But Lindsay did a little more thinking (Note to Lindsay, stop thinking so much) and she suggested I ride with a cycling group. We realize that I’m not ready and we should wait a little while for that. We’ll start with some riding outside then by April I should be ready to ride with a group.
I’m so grateful Lindsay is my trainer, she’s so committed to me reaching my goals. Everyone at PISE has been wonderful, but a special shout out has to go to Lindsay. You my darlin rock!
Now that I’ve said really nice things about you, will you please take it easy on me? Actually please don’t.
We’ve got a job to do. We’ve got to conquer my nemesis!
