Support My Trek to Find a Cause, Treatment and Cure for MS

If you've been following my training progress, you know that I'm not just doing this for me. I'm training this hard and riding in the Bike MS to support the research efforts to find the cause, a treatment, and ultimately a cure for Multiple Sclerosis.

Please support me and this cause by making a donation. No matter how small, every little bit will help. If your employer matches, I'd be happy to take care of the matching paperwork for you too.

You can donate online or mail a check to:
Bike MS: Valero Bike to the Beach
National MS Society
P.O. Box 4125
Houston, TX 77210
To ensure proper credit to my fundraising, please be sure to print my name on your check.

Thank you all for your support and encouragement. I can't wait to share the success of this year's ride!

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Day Two of the Trainer

I wasn't sore today and although I'm proud of the ten miles yesterday, I've been thinking I need to push myself tonight. After dinner, and some down time to digest, I figure I better head up to the workout room. I'm beginning to realize this week that not only do I need to better watch my eating habits for riding, but I need to better schedule my time so that I'm not riding at midnight.

It's a few minutes after nine and I head up. CSI was on earlier tonight, so I pull it up on the DVR and think I'm set. Then I climb onto the bike and sit down. Oh look, I'm sore! After a bit of squirming and adjusting, I find a somewhat survivable position to ride. I use the opening scene and credits to warm-up, fast forward through the commercial break, and then I'm off. Yeah right!

I did pick up my cadence to 72, but that was about as fast as I could take it tonight. My right elbow began to feel uncomfortable while I was riding. I've yet to remember to take my gloves upstairs and I notice that I hold the handle bars super tight when I'm on the trainer. I'm thinking the elbow could be some jerking around from my riding on the trainer and holding on so tight.

I also wore sneakers today instead of the "bike shoes" purchased last week. Last night I notice an uncomfortableness (almost a cramp, but not quite) in the ball of my right foot. I want to figure out if it's the shoes or the trainer. At this point, I'm undecided, but I did not have the same pain today. We'll try the sneakers on Saturday on the road and see what happens.

As the last commercial break came on, I was ready for a break, but the mileage looked too low to me. I pushed myself to a cadence of 85 for the remaining 3/10 of a mile to get to a round number and felt better about taking a break for the remaining commercials at that point.

So, a slower cadence and fast forwarding through most of the commercials, and a sore butt, I only pedaled for 8.5 miles today in about 45 minutes. Not bad, but I'll have to get better if I'm going to make it to Corpus Christi in six months.

Goals
Today's Miles: 8.5
Total Miles Achieved: 49.3
Financial Investment: $216.39
Total Weight Loss: 2
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