Sunday, April 6, 2008

Amazing Women Who Can Do it All! Podium at Redlands!!!!


Brenda charged for third place at the Redland's Crit yesterday. Awesome job for anyone, but even more impressive for someone with a teen ager and a full-time career!!!! We are proud! This is what Advil-ChapStick is about, amazing women who CAN do it all!

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Tuesday Night Crit

Team Photo from camp
It was 63 degrees yesterday!! I decided that I would race the Tuesday night crit in Augusta. I love this training race. I thought it would be a huge turn-out due to the warm weather, but not too many were there, well no women anyway. I guess the rain scared some away. I was told by the coach NOT to do anything in the race. I was instructed to sit in and go for the ride. WOW, that's hard to do. I just patrolled the front, took really weak turns at the front and watched others animating the race. I hated not being able to attack, or bridge or anything. I understand the reasoning. My body is still recovering from being sick and for some reason, I'm having a time at just recovering from a hard workout.

I ended up pulling off with one lap to go. My reasoning was....if I'm not going to "go for" the sprint, why the hell mix it up with these guys. I didn't want to hit the pavement and regret staying in that lap. Thankfully I pulled off and the rest of the guys sprinted to a great finish. NO CRASHES. Great job to Dave F., he was in the wind a lot and still won the sprint.......finger to the nose!

See you next Tuesday!

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Back on Track..............


Yeah, not sure why I can't fight a common cold off. I'm super frustrated, but trudging on. I was off the bike for a week with a stomach virus...my second one of the winter. I'm on the mend and back at it. Last weekend I went for a very nice, but chilly ride with Reem. We found some nice new roads (by accident). Sunday I rode with Teresa and her great teammates Audrey, Anne and Kristy. Watch out for them on the regional scene. They are strong, motivated and fun to be around. They slugged it out for almost 3.5 hrs in the hills and cold.