Fajitas and Champagne

So it seems to me that more people read posts with outrageous titles... so that is now my objective!!

Training has been going great!! I have now done a total of 614km of which 116 has been on an actual real bike and 114km so far this month.

On Saturday I rode with Josie. Remembering my experience from last week with Renae, I decided to limit myself to 18km in the morning on the training bike. My hope was that having an extra 2km in my tank (and legs) would have a significant impact on my performance in the afternoon. Wouldn't want to disgrace myself...

I am not totally sure if it worked, but we rode 26km in the evening before having Fajitas and Champagne for dinner... two of my favorite things in the world.

I thought I should share with you a couple of notable things from our ride...

Firstly, I said to Josie that I thought maybe she and Renae were being a bit kind about my cycling ability! Josie pointed out that Renae was never kind about such a thing!! (Sorry Renae!). She then pointed out that if she and Renae were riding their racing bikes rather than mountain bikes then I had absolutely no chance of keeping up with them. I asked if her comment related to the people or the equipment. She laughed... quite a lot actually... but I noticed that she did not actually answer the question... I know right?? I choose to go with the equipment, but we all know that this is not entirely accurate!

Secondly, we passed a man when we were nearly home... he calls out to us that we had ridden a really long way as he had passed us miles away. How cool is that?? People recognize our patooties while we are riding!

Lastly, on our ride we had the opportunity to admire so many houses with wonderful Christmas decorations. The time and effort people put into this is amazing! The highlight had to be the house with the snow covered lawn. Very authentic in 100 degree temperatures!!


So yesterday was our wedding anniversary! I don't think anyone should read anything into the fact that we did not realize it until about 4pm! Hamish and I were going for a swim when he told me there were 17 days until Christmas. I was thinking 25 - 17 generally = 8... which is my anniversary!! We had a lovely relaxing day... cycling, working in the garden and hanging out by the pool.

Life is good!


Until next time!

W xx