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We are going to Wild Abandon for Happy Hour tonight with my MIL. It's supposed to get to 90 today, so we'll probably sit on the patio. Nice! :)

Oooooh. Sore. Abs, low back, quads, glutes, hammies. Owie! Felt good to do the workout though. Get some blood moving through there.

Hubby and I were talking last night about training:

Him: So no Thursday Night ride, Friday is our usual free day, then we can ride or something on Saturday. Hey! We get TWO rest days!!

Me: Who's 'we' Kemo Sabe???

Him: Oh. Well, you don't have the ride, so it's LIKE a rest day...

Me: Yeah, practically the same...

Trainer this morning: Hahahahahahahaha! Enjoy your rest day. snerk

So essentially, not doing a double workout is a rest day. Good to know.

We're riding over to Mt. Tabor tonight to watch the criterium. The Mt. Hood Cycling Classic is this week/weekend. Last year we went to the Hood river criterium and it was really fun. That's sunday this year. Maybe we'll head over that way...

No crit. We did the Thursday night ride route instead. That was painful. My low back was killing me, my usual back/neck was killing me, my quads hurt, glutes, hamstrings, everything. Glad we did it, glad we're done.

How the world should be:

It's supposed to be decent weather tonight, so I am headed to PIR to see what the novice women's racing is all about. I've been nervous since I got up this morning. Why wait 'til the last minute? :)

Portland International Raceway Monday night Bike racing

OMG!!! How FUN was that??? Novice women go 6 laps on a 1.9 mile track. It's flat, and I LOVE flat, and the only thing to fight is the wind and I do that all the time on Marine Drive. :) We didn't have much wind last night, so I was barely working on the first 4 laps buriedin the middle of the pack, then  I positioned myself on the fifth, worked to the front of the pack by part way through lap 6, and maintained about 5th until the very end when I didn't have any extra at the finish line sprint. I checked later, and I got 9th! Cool!!! (Out of a field of 30) Not so bad my first time out. That rush at the end is awesome. :) Here's my race number:

Conveniently, it is also the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything, God's phone number (won't help you without the dialling code), and the answer to Six times Nine (please use base 13).

I am such a geek. :)

Oh! Can't forget - I got to meet our own very cool Yaqui out at PIR. Bummer about the tire, dude.  See ya next week!

Note to self: Do not mix up 8 batches of pasta dough. It takes 4 1/2 hours to finish rolling it all out. Doh! However, we now have a ton of fettucini in the freezer. Three batches of regular, two of wheat, two of pepper,  and one of saffron. Good thing I was out of tomato paste or it would have been three more batches of tomato pasta.

There was also weeding, lawn mowing, tons of laundry, house cleaning and some knitting.

We went on a 26-miler today. Excellent ride - we headed west on Marine Drive (like out towards Kelley Point Park), but then turned toward St. John's. On our way to go find Willamette Blvd, we came across the St. John's Street Fair. Cool! We stopped and Hubby had a hotdog and I had a sausage dog, both with grilled onions (nutrition!) and then headed home. :)

Most of the ride we kept it mellow. Low HR, lowish speed, and higher cadence. I worked on my circles.  Sadly Hubby's street vendor hotdog did not agree with him, so I pulled us at traffic speed through the Fremont biz district to get home. I think it really irritates people in cars when you go their speed. :)