blog written from one night on the ride

Posted by: Veronica Ng (Rider #6731), 3rd Year Public Health
Vote Yes on Freeway Restoration Act 56!


Man, I gotta pee!!
This perpetual thought is due to the fact that I've probably drank more Power Aid in these past few days than my whole life combined. I'm surprised my pee isn't ice-cold and Mountain Blue.
"Eat before your hungry, and drink before you are thirsty," the mantra of this whole week.
Today I woke up at 5:45 and started the everyday routine: shiver in line to use a Port-a-Pottie, brush my teeth at the shower trucks, pull on my damp spandex shorts that aren't done drying from yesterday's wash, eat a warm breakfast, get on my bike, and see California in an AMAZING way!!!
The ocean views, flat lands of wheat-looking plants, perfect rows of grape vines, and assortment of road kill such as birds, small rodents, and yesterday I even saw a huge dead snake! No matter how sore my behind is, I just look up and around and I remember one of the reasons why I signed up to do AIDS/LifeCycle. I feel the wind in my face, every bump in the road, every incline, and every downhill slope. The route took us on the freeway today.
It's always been one of my life goals to ride my bicycle on a freeway. But this freeway, as I was discussing with a fellow rider, needed some serious "vote yes on freeway restoration act 56." It was so bumpy! And unlike mountain bikes, road bikes don't have shocks to absorb anything! At least mine doesn't.
I love the bike I am using. It's a black and silver Cannondale given to me to borrow with love from a kind stranger named Jodi who I meet on a weekend training ride. She saw me riding my big heavy mountain bike and told me I could borrow her bike to use on the ride because she was going to buy a new one! There are some crazy nice people in this world because I would have never been able to buy something like this!
Anyways, we are halfway down to L.A. and I'm getting hungry. So I'm going to go eat some Salmon Filet, I guess that's what's on tonight's menu, and then shower off this one inch layer of dust and sunscreen. Lights out at 9:30. Peace out.