Good Intentions

Yeah, so I abandoned the blog for awhile. Then I wrote the last with the intention to start back up, but......uh, not so much.

I did get in another ride....where disaster struck. I need to trust my instincts. So REB and I were on our second 40 miler, trying to build endurance. On the way back I hear the pssst pssst psssst of a flat.

Odd flat. I stopped and noted that the tire was still holding air. And here's where it all goes bad.
I looked at the tire and couldn't find a hole. It also wasn't losing air, but it didn't have enough for me to ride out on. So, I pulled out the CO2 pump and shot in some air. As soon as it got some pressure in it, I heard the leak.

I stopped, and pulled the wheel. Here is where I got yelled at by every rider on the road. Apparently where I was sitting in the road I was in a shadow and was hard to see. Like I was going to sit out in the sun. In the process of swapping tubes and looking for the cause of the flat, I notice my tires are pretty darn thin.

I put in the new tube, hooked everything up, and grabbed the CO2. Emptied it into the tube. Hmm, can't get enough air in the tube. DOH....since I has used it earlier, I didn't have the full cartridge I needed to get the pressure up. No problem says REB, I have one. So he gets his and....its empty. Ugh.

First call to my wife who has just gotten to the kids gym with my daughter. Joining the gym was a reward for learning to ride her bike. Couldn't bring ourselves to make her leave. So, REB kindly called his wife who agreed to rescue us. Of course telling her how to find us and getting something to get 3 people and 2 bikes back to the parking lot proved to take a little time. So much for 40 miles.

Then of course the next weekend I was out of town, and this weekend I couldn't ride either. Oh, and I still feel fat and my blood sugar has been a mess this week. Double ugh.

Well, I bought new tires, which didn't really work out as I'd planned, but its all good. Now I just have to get them on the bike. Maybe I'll get to ride again one day, but my goal of riding a century really seems pretty far away at this point. May have to do the same as last year. We'll see.

Sigh...