The weekend in review or How much I hate crawling under the house!

I had a fun weekend planned – long ride Saturday morning, long run Sunday, clean out car – I now have approximately 10 empty Gatoraide bottle along with empty water bottles, damp towel and empty Gu containers – and still get in some basic cleaning and some family time too.

I got in my long ride Saturday morning – I did 40 miles in 2:34 and only hit about 4 stoplights! I even got to ride with my local bike hero for a while. I started at Wrightsville Beach and did 15 miles waiting for the sun to come up enough to ride on the open road. I had seen Shawn earlier going the other direction and knew he would catch me at some point. Shawn pulled up a little later and we talked all the standard bike talk. He was excited for my 40 mile day, we talked about the wind, then he headed off. It is still amazing to me to be doing around 16 mph and have someone pull away like you are standing still! The rest of the ride was uneventful. I felt pretty strong after the finish, stopped to get coffee and then headed home.

Home plans were changed due no power in the master bedroom. I spent 6 hours Sat and 4 hours Sunday diagnosing, finding, and fixing the problem. I am happy to say that I did get if fixed but my knees and elbows are sore as hell from army crawling under the house! It turned out to be a loose/shorted wire in a junction box – as far as possible from the crawlspace door! Due to the lost time – under the house – and a rain shower Sunday afternoon, not much else got done off my list.

Due to no run on Sunday, I got up with the plan to do an easy run this morning – I ran 5.3 miles in an hour. I spent 2.5 miles of my run on the loop around Pine Valley Country Club – I got lapped by a lady on her tri-bike 5 times. She was really cooking this morning. She was down low and really pumping – hope she had a good workout!

Everybody have a good week.