Getting To Know My Monkey

Today:
Run 6 miles
Bike Commute 4 miles

Yesterday:
Bike Commute 3 miles

Took my Monkey out for a short little spin tonight. I'm still waiting for my front derailleur to arrive and it was about 45 degrees and raining when I went out so I only rode it around the block a couple times just to see how it felt. And wow, did it feel good! I'm going to spend a lot of time on this bike in the next 10 months and if this first little ride was any indication we're going to get along very well. Can't wait to get it off onto some trails sometime in the next couple days so I can really get a feel for how it handles.

I've been pretty lazy about my training for the past couple days. I was planning to go to the gym for some weightlifting yesterday and after I didn't go then I was certainly going to go today. Didn't happen either day. Getting into the gym as much as I know I should has always been hard for me. It's just not as easy to be excited about that as going outside for a run or ride. Only problem is the weather has been so awful most of the past week that getting outside as much as I'd like to has been hard also. Should get a good stretch of running and biking in these next several days. Jill's going to be out of town for a bit and I'll likely only be working a total of 10 hours in the next 4 days. That will be nice after working more than 30 hours in the previous 4 days (I know 30 hours in 4 days isn't really that much but I was only scheduled to work about 15 in that time so it was certainly a lot more than I was figuring on).