A good Day 3

Today rocked!! I woke up at 5;18am and went to the gym as planned (3 early mornings in a row, I am proud). Had a great workout. Normal 30 minutes on the elliptical and an awesome free weight session that left my arms a bit tired.

Spent my precious early AM hours before work on the phone with Dell Support because our new computer cannot receive an internet connection. Got disconnected twice, on hold with several different departments and you can imagine the rest, for a total of about 2 hours. I have put that off for months because I knew it would be that horrendous. Anyway, finally got what I needed, which was an appointment tomorrow to switch the motherboard.. Painful, but o'well. I get to cross that one off the TO DO list.

As I mentioned yesterday, I have had this mountain bike ride planned for tonight. Had no idea what to anticipate. Got to my friends house and left by 10 to 6pm. We were heading for the hills. I still didn't know what this meant, nor did I know how far it was going to be, but I was up for the adventure.

Up the hilly road we climb. It reminded me of driving up old La Honda Road. It was straight up and I thought, we must be getting close. Oh no, that was just the road that led us to the entrance of the dirt trail at Fremont Older. Oh yes, we rode straight up hill for an hour...I mean straight up hill, to the top of Maisy trail. As gruesome as it was, it was at the same time the most amazing ride of my life. Not only is it absolutely gorgeous but it challenged me past my comfort zone and make me dig down deep...and that I did! I made it to the top with no stops, which according to my friends was the first of their friends that didn't need to stop. Considering the fact that I am just getting back into hard core working out, that made me feel great! And not only great did I feel, but inspired to do it again and again.

Let me just tell you coming back down was ALL down hill. Wow, that was FUN. I cruised and laughed as I made my way down. Talk about exhilarating and gratifying after all the work to get up it. It made it all worth the climb and the few little hills seemed like nothing compared to the hike up. I must have been going 40mph coming down the road after the trails. Truly amazing and an experience to be had.

I should be dog tired considering the fact that I double worked out today and haven't had a consistent week of working out in quite some time. But no, I am energized and fired up for what's to come. I have also committed to riding this trail with my friends once a week. I loved it so much that I coined it my new 2nd love next to running. I figure this will be a great cross training for me. It's certainly an endurance climb, my heart was pounding the entire time. But I know in time, just like with running, I will build the endurance to climb it faster and better. What a challenge and I am up for it! A great end to day 3 for me!