Well, the fundraising is going great - yesterday both Ken & I reached the $300 mark, which makes me feel very good. (it was my birthday, and I think that as people thought about my b-day, they also thought 'hey... i'll donate to them right now!').
Training is going fairly well. However, I have a piece of somewhat bad news. It looks like we will be moving back to Boston Mid-October (Ohhhh, i love surprises... but this is short notice). We will continue to train, and we will do the ride (we can't stop now!), but I don't think we'll be able to train as hard as we had planned, with all the house buying/selling and job changing that will be going on. But the fact that this is the last (and first) event we'll do in Texas just reinforces my will to complete all 100-miles... especially since we know we'll have that long New England winter waiting for me as soon as we're done
. We can't go back to Boston without reaching our goal! I would be ashamed...
Last week we completed just a ride that was just shy of 35 miles. it rained on us. not the safest feeling in the world. The next day, I worked in the field all day (i am an environmental scientist), and I wasn't all that sore- I was really expecting to be feeling it more. The ride was real hilly, and the roads were rough, but we had a good time anyway.