One and a half hours!

So in a totally hooray for me day, I just cycled for one and a half hours on the TdF trainer!

So after spending the morning making 'hands' for the quiz night... can't tell you why because that will spoil the surprise... I chose the hottest part of the day to go and train. Note to self, maybe plan that out better next time.

So proving that it is all mind over matter, let me share my ride with you:

1. I really need to do some distance training so I will cycle 30km today on the flat
2. OK, I am feeling a bit puffed, maybe 25-30km
3. Look at the boys in the pool... it looks so inviting
4. Goodness, is that fan working? It is really quite hot in here
5. OK, I will definitely cycle for 1 hour and then jump in the pool
6. Oh dear, Paul put the cover back on... I guess I will not be jumping in the pool after my ride
7. OK, I can do one hour
8. Gosh, I am getting tired, perhaps just a little rest. Josie told me on her last ride in Cuba they would have a drinks break about every 45 minutes, and everyone would get at least a 10 minute break
9. OK, so I will definitely ride until the end of the next song and then I can take a small break
10. Maybe I should conserve my energy for tomorrow
11. OK, need to change my song list... choose shorter songs
12. I don't even like this song... perhaps I should just stop now
13. Oh, is the computer broken... it seems to have been on that time and distance for ever... must be broken... oh no, it just ticked forward
14. Oh look... I have done an hour! Surely that is enough... can I stop now?
15. No Wendy, you can do 25km
16. Do I have too?
17. YES
18. OK, that is just a few more songs... I can do 25km
19. That would be a record for me, so there is really no need to go to 30km
20. Oh my goodness, my patootie is hurting
21. OK, just one more song. You can do it Wendy
22. Actually, I am feeling OK
23. Yay, I am up to 25km
24. OK, I will stop now
25. But you could do 30km
26. But I don't want to
27. OK, I will split the difference and do 27.5km
28. What an excellent plan!
29. Good job Wendy
30. Again, choose shorter songs!
31. Do I really have time for this? I still need to make more hands.. and I need to buy wine and beer (for the quiz night!)... and I need to buy two birthday presents for next week... I guess I could do that on Monday... but if I do it today then I could stop now
32. OK, I made it to 27.5lm.
33. Good job Wendy
34. That is a new record
35. You can stop now
36. But if I keep going, I could make it to 30km
37. Well I really want to do 30km... but I would also like to stop now
38. OK, I can do 30km
39. Should my legs be getting this sore?
40. Just two more songs
41. WOW, I made it to 30km!!
42. Hooray for me!!
43. You know Wendy, it is almost one hour and 30 minutes... you can do a little bit more
44. But I don't want to
45. OK, it is just one more song... I can do this
46. Hooray for me!! One hour and thirty minutes!!
47. Awesome job!

So I rode 30.8km and burned 642 calories!!

And in other news... Paul was asked to be the scorer for the Quiz Night. So what does he do? Builds an app of course. A very cool app which is available on any smart phone... What, isn't that what everyone does??

Like I say to my boys when they say they just want to live in a "normal" family... who's to say we aren't normal?

Until next time!

W x