July

The weather at the end of June was 10 degrees below normal for this time of  year which made bicycling great.  However, July seems to have started a little different. It has  been 100 degrees where I live. As I have not felt so great this weekend no biking for me. As tomorrow is a holiday and I am feeling better perhaps a little ride.

With the XC11 finishing I think about when I finished nearly two years ago. You think that you are going to make great changes in your life, but at the end of the day, you are who you are.  It is fun riding the bike, but what makes it harder for me is that I still pass where we started in 2009 and it is now a bittersweet moment.

I bought the bike in 2007, trained and was fortunate enough to bike cross country, meeting a great group of people and making friends who are more like family. I read the XC11 blogs, but it is not the same thing as biking it yourself. Sometimes now when I ride, I think too myself "Could I do it again ?" Will it be the same experience as the first time ? Sometimes the memories are better than you remembered.

The answer is i am not sure, but I would like to try it again, but a different route

That goal and thought is what keeps me riding.