Day 1 of training.

Last night was a bit tough, as I got a bit down after some of the reading I did, but today I feel like I got a good start.  First, I had some notes of encouragement from the last post.  One from a friend and another from a complete stranger who found my post.  How cool is that?  Second, I did my first ride of the year on my usual daily ride.  I used my new Christmas present, a Garmin Edge 500 cycling computer, and mapped my route.  When I got home I uploaded the ride and created a course of it for future rides.  Which means I can do cool things like race against my logged time to see if I can beat it.  The Garmin will put a virtual competitor on the route and tell me if I'm ahead or behind him using the times and positions that I logged from today's ride.  Pretty cool.

I also tried planning a route last night.  That route, subject to change, takes me from Santa Cruz to the Oregon border all along the coast.  Wouldn't that be cool?

On today's ride I thought about the trip and did some mental planning.  Will need some more bike tools, some long cycling pants, etc.  It will be June during the ride yes, but the coast in the mornings even in summer can at times be colder than our winter days in Livermore so I'll need to be prepared.

Jesus, thank you for the words of encouragement you sent me from the aether :-)  I hope to please you with my efforts come June, and ask that you come for a ride with me that week.