It’s been a while since I updated this blog, but I haven’t exactly been sitting around.
Just before the Solvang event, Harold, one of my TnT teammates, invited me to join his Tour de Cure team to raise money for the American Diabetes Association. I gladly agreed because he’s a great guy and his Type 2 diabetes is what prompted him to join Team in Training. Also, my dad has Type 2 diabetes.
Tour de Cure was hard for two reasons:
1) it featured two Category 1 climbs, up Kings Mountain road and up Tunitas Creek, which is the other side of that road
2) the organization does very little to help you train for it, so if it wasn’t for Harold organizing rides every two weeks or so, I would’ve been totally unprepared.
The route was also tough because Kings Mtn was maybe 15 miles from the start and then you ride about 40 miles through some varied terrain and hit Tunitas Creek at around mile 60. So the two toughest climbs are at the beginning and end. But we did it and had a great time.
That was a month ago (June 12th). Since then, I’ve only been on my bike once. The event was THAT hard, plus work conspired to sap my motivation. But I’m heading out for another little ride today and want to start commuting now that it looks like we’re finally done with rain for the summer.