BIKE WOES - Yesterday Husband& I celebrated Independence Day with an intended 28-30 mile bike ride. Before we even left the house, I had to put in a new tube due to a front flat. Once we were on the road, he told me that his rear tire was really low when he was adding air, but he didn't change the tube (no, I have no idea why he didn't change it). I was certain that it wouldn't be long before he had a flat. About 3 miles in, we stopped to change the tube. Then about 11 miles later, his rear tire was flat again. Again, a tube change. About 3 miles farther and flat again.
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| Fixing the *first* flat |
At this point we decided that something was wrong that he wasn't figuring out on the road. Rather than put in (and waste) another tube, we decided that I would turn around and head home to get the car. Unfortunately, at this point we were 16 miles away from home, so it was going to take awhile before I got back to him. I rode as fast as I could and got home in about an hour. Grabbed my purse, made a pit stop in the bathroom, and took off to go fetch him. Driving out to him seemed to take forever, but it was probably more like 40 minutes. I seemed to catch every red light possible. At home, he seemed to get his tire situation sorted out. We're going to try again on Friday. *fingers crossed*
LONG RUN - This morning I met my running partner for our long run. Normally we do the long run on Saturdays, but her daughter is having surgery tomorrow and since we both took some time off around the holiday we decided to bump up our long run (7.8 miles) to Thursday morning. It went pretty well, but I was exhausted afterwards (probably more from doing it after yesterdays bike adventure). I wasn't going to run at all on Saturday, but now I'm thinking I'll do something like 4-5 miles, essentially swapping days. It all depends on how I feel after tomorrow's ride.
Which leads me to
LAZY AFTERNOON - While I'm typing, Husband is napping on the couch, the dogs are napping on the floor, and the cats are napping in another room. I'm thinking they are onto something; I am ready to join them... ZZzzzzzz
ZZZZZ.... Sounds like a nice plan :)
ReplyDeletethat's a bummer about the bike ride! i hope the rest of them go better (and that hubs figured out what the problem was). flats are the worst! ok, well any problem really is no fun.
ReplyDeletetake an extra nap for me!
oh those moments where you are rushing to get back to someone always feel extremely long!
ReplyDeleteway to get the run done!
Gotta love those lazy days!! Good job on your workouts! Keep it up :)
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