Tales of a Novice Cyclist

I woke up this morning and first thing I did was to take a look at the narly cut. My first thought: “it looks like I got bit by an animal.. or a shark!” ha! The wound is still open but I think it finally stopped bleeding. Now, instead of blotting the wound with peroxide with cotton, I’ve resorted to just pouring it over the leg and leaving the wound to bubble/fizz. Yuk!
And my knee is worse today. Ugh… I guess that means that I can’t do the double metric with 8500 ft of climbing during the Cool Breeze. Grrr…. I’m staying off the bike for 1 full week to give it time to recover. I can’t go in the water to swim since the cut will get worse, I can’t get on my bike because of my knee, the only thing I can do is to take walks in between my cube life dayz…

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Today’s ride with Agoura got me a narly cut on my leg from the front gear. I probably needed stitches since it’s still bleeding and open right now (10 hours later…), but I’m hoping that it will stop tonight. Hopefully? I’d take a picture and post it, but it’s NOT a pretty site since it’s still open! A woman couldn’t clip out and fell over when we all stopped at a light. We pulled over to get her patched up, then a guy got dizzy and collapsed while crossing the street with our bikes. Then I lose balance while holding RL’s bike and get the narliest cut I’ve ever gotten. Sigh… Plus my knee is being funny again. I’ve been stretching the crap out of it which I think has helped, but I probably should have just stayed home today to avoid all the hassel. Grrrr…. I was going to ride tomorrow morning, but I will be smarter and stay off the knee for the rest of the week. I hope the narly cut will be better tomorrow morning… This one is definitely going to take at least 4 weeks to heal since it’s big and deep… :(  Iodine ointment and peroxide, iodine ointment and peroxide…

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Back from the Rat Race, and finally now starting to recover.

Drove up with Bean there and back. 12 hours. Longest drive ever. But it was good company. 10 days of flying really drained me! I didn’t bike or do any type of cardio. Just fly, eat, sleep, fly, eat, and sleep. Woodrat Mountain is a beautiful place to fly though. And the competition was an amazing experience (including my first tree landing, the stress of flying in a gaggle of 50+ pilots, learning to use my GPS finally, experience of seeing how competitions work, etc…). I didn’t make goal a single day - which really irritated me. But it is what it is. I’ll do better next time. Being surrounded by so many phenomenal pilots made me want to become a better pilot and a better competitor. I was hoping that there wouldn’t be so many women, so that I could get a ribbon. But darn it! There were 12! =( But at least I didn’t come in last. Whew! 6th… Top 5 got something… Hopefully, next time, there will only be 5 and I will be one of them? Wishful thinking? My goal in my next competition will be to make goal at least one day during the comp. Rat Race next year for sure. I may go check out the Nationals, Monarcha, and Worlds as spectator or wind tech just to see how they are. Now, I’m back to the real world. I did a Ventura-Santa Barbara ride with the BBKings last Saturday. I think that was the most beautiful ride ever… Here are some pictures of the Rat Race. Too neat!

On our way through Mt. Shasta

Metal cow along I-5

One of the first tasks… everyone writing down the waypoints!

launch at Woodrat

Gaggle Fun. Can you find me? I’m on a white and orange glider…

The Chu in a Tree

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