Sometime in the next six weeks I need to get really good at bike riding so I can survive the 56 mile portion of the half ironman in June. As a result I have been spending more time on the bike. A lot of it in my living room.
As you can see there are all kinds of wonderful things and ways for 2 industrious girls to entertain themselves. Despite this abundance of educational and imaginative opportunities their favorites activities include building forts with the couch pillows, broom wars and laundry basket derbies. These are fine activities but they usually require Mom hauling herself off the bike just as she's got a groove going in order to protect pictures on the wall, confiscate jousting equipment, referee the game "hug attack" or rescue the cat. Sometimes I'll just turn up the ipod and check out the other view.
Occasionally I do make it outside. I was working on the hills across the street the other day, trying to be brave enough to descend without the brakes. My pep talk include, "Well if I'm going down I could just land on a grave, that should be relatively soft." Yay, I need some work on my pep talks.
This is from one of my favorite places to ride, I love it because there is very little car traffic and the cars that are there move slowly. However as you can see from the photo there are planes! The first time I saw the plane go across the bridge I was about to ride under I thought it was an optical illusion. Nope! I've never actually been under the bridge when a plane has headed to the runway and think I will continue to avoid it, its probably pretty loud in there.
As you can see there are all kinds of wonderful things and ways for 2 industrious girls to entertain themselves. Despite this abundance of educational and imaginative opportunities their favorites activities include building forts with the couch pillows, broom wars and laundry basket derbies. These are fine activities but they usually require Mom hauling herself off the bike just as she's got a groove going in order to protect pictures on the wall, confiscate jousting equipment, referee the game "hug attack" or rescue the cat. Sometimes I'll just turn up the ipod and check out the other view.
Occasionally I do make it outside. I was working on the hills across the street the other day, trying to be brave enough to descend without the brakes. My pep talk include, "Well if I'm going down I could just land on a grave, that should be relatively soft." Yay, I need some work on my pep talks.
All played out, wish I could join them!
