Kate Writes: Biking

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Saturday was the perfect day for a ride. My bike had escaped the garage where it had spent the winter spinning. First day out on the road. What was I going to wear? could I remember how to stop and take my feet out of the cleats with out falling over? Sophie had pony club working bee on at 10 am so it was an ideal time for me to ride to Te Toro. Now if anyone knows what that means its Hilly. Very hilly and big long hills. I was concerned, did the training I have done helped or am I still hopeless. Well I got out and off I went. I had an enjoyable ride. 20k in just over an hour. no problems with the hills. I even got out of my saddle going up a couple of hills.
My friends were very impressed. We cleaned up the pony club site and 2 hours later I was on my way home. I did not want to go back the way I came as there were some very steep hills, so I went down the main road. I had a very quite ride to pony club along a country lane, going down the main road was very different.Very LOUD bikes going very fast down Dickies Straight. If I could, I would have stuck both fingers in my ears as they went past, but then I would have fallen off my bike. It was 10 k longer on the way home, which made up my 50K that I wanted to do. I'm not worried about the hills now. That winter training was amazing.
Its raining now so the Sunday ride will be a spin session in the house. My calf muscle is still sore so no running again this week.

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