Summer is looking good . . .
Although I am still in full on winter/ski mode things are starting to shape up for quite the interesting summer season! I officially gone from vaguely disinterested in summer to excited.
The big excitement is that one of my friends asked if I wanted to join her and 2 of her uber cool friends to do the Little Red Riding Hood ride in Utah on June 6. How could I say no to an all women's century with 3 super awesome women that I would love to spend more time with?? Luckily the website claims this is not a century with tons of climbing but I think I'm going to have to log a few more miles on the road bike this spring than I did last year.
This should get me off to a good start as I prepare for the Chequamegon 40. I finally decided that I should return to doing the 40 mile race instead of the 16. I swore to myself while I was skiing the Birkie that I would not do that but I changed my mind. I need to revisit those climbs but this time in the opposite direction. It will be my 10th time doing the 40 mile race this year and my 15th time doing Chequamegon . . . . well, if my entry is chosen in the lottery. I'm going with a new strategy this year though. I'm going to line up in the back and just ride easy. That will make it more fun hopefully and will ideally leave me a little bit more refreshed (important since the USGP is the next weekend and I'm going to be BUSY).
Another potential spring/summer development is swimming. Yes, swimming . . . something I doubt anyone expects to see in my plans. For those that don't already know, I don't know how to swim and am terrified of water. However, I've always kind of had it in the back of my head that I would learn to swim when I turned 40. I think I said that because that seemed like a far distant event. Well, this summer I'm turning 40 so I asked a friend for a recommendation of an instructor and I just sent him an email. I might still find an excuse not to try to learn to swim (again) but at least I've got a potential victim (I mean instructor).
I'm also going to be buying classic roller skis . . . exciting, I know. I want to work more on my classic technique this summer as there is so much to learn. I borrowed some last summer a few times but this year I'm going to need my own if I'm going to put more emphasis on that. And, yes, that does mean I'm sticking with ski school. I'm still liking it as I've still got so much to learn.
Add to that a few fun mtn bike races/events, a vacation to Jackson, WY, some great events I'm organizing and hopefully another short trip up to the UP to mountain bike and summer is looking pretty sweet. I need some more skiing before that happens though!! This weekend the Great Bear Chase and then hopefully at least one more ski trip up north just for pure skiing fun.
The big excitement is that one of my friends asked if I wanted to join her and 2 of her uber cool friends to do the Little Red Riding Hood ride in Utah on June 6. How could I say no to an all women's century with 3 super awesome women that I would love to spend more time with?? Luckily the website claims this is not a century with tons of climbing but I think I'm going to have to log a few more miles on the road bike this spring than I did last year.
This should get me off to a good start as I prepare for the Chequamegon 40. I finally decided that I should return to doing the 40 mile race instead of the 16. I swore to myself while I was skiing the Birkie that I would not do that but I changed my mind. I need to revisit those climbs but this time in the opposite direction. It will be my 10th time doing the 40 mile race this year and my 15th time doing Chequamegon . . . . well, if my entry is chosen in the lottery. I'm going with a new strategy this year though. I'm going to line up in the back and just ride easy. That will make it more fun hopefully and will ideally leave me a little bit more refreshed (important since the USGP is the next weekend and I'm going to be BUSY).
Another potential spring/summer development is swimming. Yes, swimming . . . something I doubt anyone expects to see in my plans. For those that don't already know, I don't know how to swim and am terrified of water. However, I've always kind of had it in the back of my head that I would learn to swim when I turned 40. I think I said that because that seemed like a far distant event. Well, this summer I'm turning 40 so I asked a friend for a recommendation of an instructor and I just sent him an email. I might still find an excuse not to try to learn to swim (again) but at least I've got a potential victim (I mean instructor).
I'm also going to be buying classic roller skis . . . exciting, I know. I want to work more on my classic technique this summer as there is so much to learn. I borrowed some last summer a few times but this year I'm going to need my own if I'm going to put more emphasis on that. And, yes, that does mean I'm sticking with ski school. I'm still liking it as I've still got so much to learn.
Add to that a few fun mtn bike races/events, a vacation to Jackson, WY, some great events I'm organizing and hopefully another short trip up to the UP to mountain bike and summer is looking pretty sweet. I need some more skiing before that happens though!! This weekend the Great Bear Chase and then hopefully at least one more ski trip up north just for pure skiing fun.
posted by MadCross at 6:53 AM
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I'm turning 40 this summer too. 40 is the new 30 right? :)
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