So isn’t this how most excuses start out?  I have been meaning to blog and to keep track here of my donations–which I am happily still doing–but I’m stuck in this transitioning summer time space.  The kids are home this week before school starts and we were on vacation last week and honestly I am swamped at work and with my dissertation research and I still haven’t written the syllabus for the class I am teaching that starts on Monday.  So, needless to say I have been busy doing things and haven’t had much time to write about them.

I haven’t been training much for the century I am suppose to ride on the 28th.  I have decided that after this weekend’s long ride that if I don’t feel really good and can’t keep up a good pace then I am just not going to do the century.  I don’t have anything to prove–I know I can ride a century–I have ridden two already.  My next goal is to ride one well and finish in under 7 hours.   I know I am not there yet and my BFF who rides with me is in much better shape than me and could easily ride a century in 6 hours.  She is so good to me and rides patiently with me–but I know it isn’t “fun” for her to take so long to ride that distance.  So, I’m cool with my decision to not do the century if I’m not ready.  There is another one in October that I’ll shoot for.  But if I am honest–I don’t have a lot of time to train for one with everything that is also going on in my crazy world.

I have some more money to donate–on average I have been able to put aside about $3 a day.   I know that doesn’t seem like much, but over the course of a month that is about $100 and over a year $1200.  Not bad at all.

I’ll update later this week with a new total of $ and who I am decided to donate to.