Maggie said……

there would be days like this, or was is Mama that said that?  🙂  Wow, yesterday was not a great day at all.  After a pretty successful long day on Saturday- lots of things went wrong yesterday.  A 2 hour bike to one hour run brick turned into…… hmmmm about a 3 hour outing on the bikes and amended runs by some of us- surely not a brick.  Notice I said outing?  About 25 minutes in, Pam flatted a tire.  Then it seemed as if that tire was not seated correctly on the rim as she was jumping all over like a mexican jumping bean.  So, she decided to shorten her route and if she ran into any more trouble, we would be along.  About an hour later, Rob flatted.  Paul offered to go back and help him as he had “plenty of energy left” in him.  So Mike and I headed back for La Crosse.  As I was just coming back into town I see Pam’s vehicle, she slowed and hollered out to me Rob had flatted.  I thought, oh oh – something is not going well.  Mike and I got back to the Y, Pam and Rob followed not too long after with the information that Rob had run over some glass and trashed his tire to the point that he would just continue to flat.  We all changed into running gear and waited for Paul.  We sent Pam out on her run as she had time sensitive commitments and about a half hour later Paul rolls in – just after the first round of rain.  Can you even believe it – he had flatted on his way back in!  By this time Pam is pissy, Rob is pissy, and Paul is pissed.  I forgot to mention that Rob and I were having a bit of communication issues on the ride as well.  This continued on the run – oops, I guess I should not expect my husband to read my mind.  Again – sorry Rob.  It is again comforting to know that we do have a supportive team that will all stop to fix a tire, go back to help someone with a flat, drive back out to pick up said flatted bike and rider, etc………..

Rob officially recorded the workout on his Garmin Connect calendar as the “ride from hell.”  I do try to find the silver lining in things so, at least we did not get hit with the golf ball sized hail that pummeled our house at about 4 pm yesterday.  Now, if someone else can find the silver lining in this week’s forecast – I would appreciate it 🙂