Picture Thursday

First and foremost, MY NEW BIKE HAS ARRIVED!  Whew, that was stressful.  I did indeed survive 19 hours on my trainer last week (including a 5 hour/6 hour double last Friday and Saturday) but it was painful.  Now that it's over I can say I'm kind of glad I was forced to endure the extreme boredom and mental fatigue of riding my bike for that many hours in my living room.  Mental fatigue point has definitely been adjusted!

He shall be call "Whitey" for obvious reasons.  He rides like a dream.

On Wednesday, Oscar picked up our first CSA load!

It should be noted that by the time I got home from work, the cookie and cream soda were no longer available.  (hint, Oscar looked suspiciously content...)

I have to admit, I didn't know what the curly things on top were.  Twitter informed me that they are garlic scapes.  They ended up in our pasta sauce tonight.  I am so excited about this CSA concept.  It's like a little Christmas every other Wednesday!

My beets are roasting, my beets are roasting!!!  :)

In other news, I did my last 5+ hour ride today before CdA!  (it should be noted that I have an 8 hour s/b/r brick tomorrow but the ride is only 4.5 hours.  :).  The ride today was very hard for me.  It had lots of intervals and my HR did not want to cooperate.  Sometimes I think Dirk broke my heart rate because I have to run or ride REALLY hard/fast for it to go high.  This problem does not exist on race day though.  :)

Looking a bit haggard after that ride.  All I could think about for the last hour home was the watermelon in the fridge.  I may have eaten 5 (or 10) pieces.

Also, I've been a reading fool.  This is a bit odd for me because I mostly just sleep, eat, train and occasionally go to work.  If you don't get on FB and twitter as often though, there is oddly more time in your day to read.  :)  I read Chrissie's autobiography (really liked it) and now I'm reading Unbroken.  It's an amazing story.  Highly recommended!  Today Mr. Mailman brought this one for me:


I know everyone has already read this one but what can I say, I'm behind the times.

And with that, I think I will go lay in my bed until it's dark enough to sleep.  :)  Best of luck to everyone racing this weekend - most of all to all those at Eagleman!  I'm very sad to be missing EM this year as it's one of my favorites.  I'm not sure why because it's always 10,000 degrees with 10 million % humidity.  But I do enjoy the eagles in the Blackwater Preserve.  Oh, and the sno-cones at the run turnaround.  :)  Have a great weekend all!