Do i have the drive?

I am sure everyone asks themselves that question at some point. Is what I am about to do worth my time and energy, and if I don’t do it will the result make that big of a difference? I had a tough time with those questions this weekend. Friday I worked until after 6 then went home and took care of the dogs and got my hour ride in. I had a race saturday, left immediately after awards to get to Darlington to watch the nascar racing with the hubby and friends, raced home early sunday morning to get an 85 mile ride done. Only to wake up early sunday morning to rain, thunder, and lightning coming down on our tent. So I try to be positive that maybe it’s not raining in greenville, that didn’t work. I wasn’t motivated to do another 5 hour ride in the rain so I called in reinforcements. Luckily, forrest, regina, and susan were planning a 4 hr trainer ride b/c of the rain. I don’t know how lucky that is b/c I have never done more than a 1.5 hour trainer ride, and that was miserable even with julie entertaining me. What was I going to do, not ride and feel guilty and wonder how it will effect austria. I just couldn’t do that, even knowing that I would rather spend the day on the couch with the hubby. So, I trudged all the way to TR with trainer in tow and was just dreading it. 
 
We ended up doing the Lake Placid Half IM course with coach troy (i despise his voice now) and watched a movie after that. I have to say I bitched moaned and complained the first 90 mins. b/c I swear we spent the entire time doing a 90-100 cadence in an easy gear. I thought lake placid was hilly! Well, once you do the turnaround the last 20 miles or more is spent going uphill, which was great! Every time we would hit a hard gear I would cheer and regina would groan. Regina ended up taking over the moaning and groaning for the next 2.5 hours. I don’t think I have laughed so long, susan thought she was going to be sore just from laughing. Let me explain, we put in this movie and susan put it on hearing impaired so we could talk and if you couldn’t hear what was going on (forrest) you could read the subtitles. It didn’t take but a few mins. before forrest was fussing he was trying to watch the movie. My comment to that was, ssshhhh, everyone be quiet I can’t read while you’re talking! We got a good laugh out of that. If you haven’t watched a movie in hearing impaired mode I suggest you try it. You will laugh so hard, it’s one thing to hear someone moan and its another to see the words being spelled out on the bottom of the screen. . . Jodie: MOANING. Maybe you had to be there, but I can say even though it sucked I still had fun. 
 
I think after 4 hours I was a little delirious, but afterwards I was atleast satisfied that I didn’t let the rain get the best of me. Kudos to the group for not letting me hop off the trainer and run away after the first hour. I am sure forrest questioned having 3 women in his living room at one time for so long but he was a good sport. 
 

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