Day off

Usually, I have been riding my bike to work and doing a lunch ride on Tuesday and a long ride on Saturday. This week, I took today off (Friday) and about 10:30 headed out to do some hills. I've been trying to do more hills this week to prepare for LOTOJA - which is only 12 weeks away! I've decided to "race" it this year and so we'll see how it goes. Need to get my weight down to 156 and then I'd be a machine. Anyhoo, I set off from our house in Scripps Ranch and headed east linking up with hwy 67. The day way sunny, had some good tunes, and I was feeling pretty strong. I put my heart monitor back on today so I could actually see if I was pushing hard or not. Two and a half years ago, when we first moved to San Diego, I drove up to Ramona to look at possible housing. On the way up, I discovered this really twisty steep road that was in a wooded and hilly area. Since then, I've been wanting to ride this piece of road. So today was my day. As I was saying, I just felt good and alive and really wanted to do this loop. I told Abbie that I'd be back in two hours so I needed to make good time. I made it to Ramona in a little over an hour so I figured instead of returning on the hwy that I'd try this road that I remembered. And as I recalled, it was fantastic! I finished off a powerbar and started making the decent back towards Poway. The road was smooth and the cars were few. I don't know. Today just felt really good on the bike. Maybe because the whole time I was thinking, "It's great not to be at work today."