I’m back home. I did the MS150 this weekend to challenge myself and raise money for the National MS Society which is important to me because of my sister. The wind was atrocious the first day but I managed to complete the 100 miles in spite of that. I didn’t manage to do it very quickly but at least I arrived under my own power. I met Rusty for breakfast this morning at the camp in La Grange and then we set out for Austin. Today was shorter and there was almost no wind so the only thing I was really fighting against was the damage I’d done to myself the day before. Rolling into the finish line is an amazing feeling. I don’t know if I’ll do it again next year but it was definitely worth doing once.
There and back again
Thank you
I met my self-imposed fundraising goal for the MS150 today. Thank you to everyone who donated.
The weather is shaping up to be kinda crappy. It’ll be clear but with the wind going the wrong direction which sucks because 100 miles is a long ride into the wind. Oh well. So it goes.
wind
It’s the weekend before the MS and what am I doing? I’m sitting inside working. Why would that be? I should be out riding my bike for training. When I woke up at 7:30 this morning, the wind was howling around the house and when I looked at the weather it said 20-30mph wind gusting to 35mph. The two most painful bicycle experiences I’ve had have been in wind like that and I don’t really feel the need to subject myself to that again. Tomorrow it’s supposed to be about the same except also raining.
I guess if I’m going to get anything done to prepare for next weekend it’s going to have to be on the rowing machine. I think I’ll be fine for the event though. Especially if the wind is anything like it is today. If I have a 20mph tailwind next weekend it will be a complete piece of cake. If I have a 20mph headwind I’m going to have to draft a car or something because there is no way I’m capable of doing 100 miles into this.
I am getting some decent work done though and the “Tairora Cherry” is pretty fantastic so at least the day isn’t wasted.
MS150
Just a link to my personal fundraising page and a few extra images.
http://main.nationalmssociety.org/goto/erichagan
spring
I guess it’s spring. The weather was surprisingly awesome this weekend. Highs in the low 80′s, almost no wind, cloudy and cool Saturday morning and then clear. I’ve been riding my bike more to prepare for the MS150 in April and the nice weather was a welcome change. I rode 100.5 miles over the weekend. Just under 68 miles on Saturday starting from home, up Reagan to 29, down into town all the way to the office and then back home. Then today just over 32 miles from home to Parmer, out to 3405 and back. I ran into Rusty doing his training out that way as well. I have a little sun burn just at the cuff where my shorts were from Saturday because I didn’t quite get enough sunscreen there but other than that I’ve survived and I also ate all the things so that’s nice. This evening, while cooking dinner, I noticed that my cherry tree is blooming. I’m pretty surprised because this was the most pathetic winter ever but we’ve been getting rain and I guess it wants water more than it cares about the supposed 1400 hours below 40 degrees it’s supposed to need to make flowers. The maple also looks good and it has a ton of the little seeds with sails on it too which is cool. The rest of the yard is a wreck but that’s to be expected after last year’s 9 month summer. Hopefully we’ll keep getting rain and we won’t have to worry about the entire state being on fire again this year. Fingers crossed.