We did it

Yesterday Jonathan and I completed the 2009 20 mile Tour Dallas bike ride. Granted 20 miles isn’t a long distance for a cyclist, but for two people who have never done a bike race before, it’s a pretty good distance. I also think 20 miles was a good distance for someone who broke her back only 9 months ago…and 2 miles into the ride I was feeling it, my back and neck were tightening up and hurting but I pulled through it and finished all 20 miles. Today on the other hand, i am feeling it more…but nothing I can’t live with. Anyway, we had a fun time…one of our friends, Todd joined us and he actually did the 30 mile ride, he is an experienced rider and has done like 100 mile races before, so 30 was nothing for him. We started off at city hall in Downtown Dallas and rode across the trinity river and back, then through downtown, down swiss avenue, through Lakewood, to White rock lake and back to city hall. The whole time my gears kept shifting on their own, they wouldn’t stay locked in one gear and of course the one gear they stayed in was the hardest gear! It wasn’t too bad, just annoying and kind of hard going up hills – ha. After the ride we took my bike to the bike shop to get looked at and they said the gear shift was broken. They fixed it and viola, it shifts fine now. We are thinking of doing a 40 mile ride next weekend in Lancaster, but we’ll see 😉