Watch Out It’s Messy In Here

As of tomorrow, I will once again be a one bike triathlete. I am canceling the layaway. I'm hoping they can put the money I used as the first payment toward the clips and shoes that I don't have money for instead. There is no way I can pay the bike off, feed my kids, put gas in my car, and pay my bills. Not to mention the race entry fees I still haven't paid for the races I am planning on doing. It was an impulse decision that was just not rational of me to make. I am very sad, maybe in mourning just a bit, but I know it will be ok. I will do my races on my too heavy road bike, and it will be ok. I may have already fallen in love with that beautiful silver piece of carbon beauty, but at least I haven't named it yet. That would make it worse. Someday I will have a tri bike. Just not this season. Maybe not even next. But, someday.

Last week I went to the bike shop to try on bike shoes, and figure out what size I wear in them, since they don't run like regular shoes.  Wasn't buying, just figuring out what I wanted.  A friend of mine works there, and was trying to tempt me with a tri bike.  It was nice, but I wasn't looking for a bike.  I've only had Pepe since July.  So, he then convinced me to bring my bike in for a bike fit, since I bought it online, and my father and I put it together.  So, yesterday morning, I took it in.  He watched me ride it, made adjustments, and wow, huge difference.  Then we started talking about all the things I should do to it to make it ride-able for Syracuse 70.3 .  As he was listing all the parts I would need to buy, and we started adding them up, it was going to cost almost as much as the bike did originally!  So, I started thinking about the bike he showed me last week.  And told him to throw it on the trainer, so I could try...

Do you know what today is? I bet you have no idea. I do. It's new bike day! My bike will be coming today. It's being delivered to my parents house. They paid for it, and they are always home so someone can sign for it. I really want to ride it home. But all are telling me that my maiden voyage on Pepe (yes, I've named my bike already) shouldn't be that far. I mapped it, it's only 16 miles or so. I can go farther than that on the old clunker. But, then I would also have to convince the husband to drive me out to the parents. So, I guess I will take him for a little spin around the folks neighborhood. The bonus to that is it's very flat where they are, not hilly like it is here. Then I'll load that shiny new toy into the back of Ruby and bring him home. I've decided to do Iron Girl with the cage pedals. Get used to riding the new bike for the three weeks before switching to the clip in pedals. Those scare the crap out of me. Then, after Ir...

Things I am not good at: Thank You cards RSVP'ing Sending out invites Making appointments Paying bills on time Returning calls/emails Refilling prescriptions These things all have one thing in common, procrastination. It's not that I don't want to thank people for awesome gifts, or that I want to leave you hanging when you invite me to a party. I just put it off. I'll think about it, and know it needs to be done, and then that fleeting thought leaves my overcrowded brain, and it may never come back. When I was in school, I always did my homework at the last possible minute (or not at all). I have spent many a night typing a 10 page research paper due the next day. I am one of those crazy people Christmas shopping on Christmas eve day. Sometimes it bites me in the ass. My lack of a road bike is evidence of that. Last year, when I decided to do my first tri, I borrowed a bike from a friend who had done the Lake Placid IM a few year earlier. It was hanging in his...