Dra-ma

My morning commute

I know I've bitched a lot about my commute and the idiots I have to deal with. But this is amazing. It truly was just appalling.

I've just pulled out on the the road. I'm headed west. To my right is some basic housing and smaller side streets with, you guessed it, more single family/duplex housing. To the left is a school. I'm rolling along in my tiny geared fixie. There is an old lady in a mu mu with some mangy assed dog with her. The neighbors apparently had not taken their garbage cans in from Thursday pickup. I'm maybe 10ish feet from the old lady who's walking the dog. She gets to the garbage cans and pushes them over into the street. I dont hear much as I'm franticlly trying not to hit them and swerve into traffic. But something about "that'll teach em".

I dont know if she was referring to me or the neighbors but it was the closest I've ever come to giving an old person the bird.

Stuff

So aside from working my ass off at work (we're talking ~50hr weeks for all of Jan). I've decided I should probably start training again. Well if I dont want to come in dead last all the time. And I dont like being last so...that leads to the having to ride my bike for more than just to and from work.

Collin's Shop team folded so I was on the hunt for a road team. I will be riding for Team Dirt for mtn bike. But I wanted some teammates and people to train with for the road. I missed most of the road season last year, I was uber busy with school so training was pretty nil and the mtb season conflicted with the road season. So this year, I think I'd like to balance it out with closer to 50-50 road/mtb. So I joined the Poplollies. We are the only all women's race team in the southern valley. And I have some wonderful teammates with some serious horsepower. It ought to be awesome.

I'm pumped about racing this year. No homework, no school. Just me and the bike. Woo hoo!