Wet socks

I had to complete my RPM session today with wet socks.  They were dry when I left home, but I inadvertently left some water in my water bottle.  So when I arrived at the gym I had wet socks and a slightly wet (but dark!) t shirt.  The last time I inadvertently left my water bottle partly filled and open in in the bag I drowned and killed my last cellphone.  So working out with wet socks in comparison is an improvement.

Good RPM session (despite the wet socks) with the T(uesday) instructor playing my favourite number tracks 4 and 6, added with an opening track of Seal.   I love tracks 4 and 6, even though I can't go as fast as I would like, quite yet, and I really love the tracks "In the dark" and Annie Lennox's "Why".  Unlike, the Hutt girl, the T lady doesn't get "pumped" or full of hyperpole (and I mean in that in the nicest possible way!), but today she was looking sharp and focussed in black, and pre Taupo hair cut -anything to go faster eh?  So, overall verdict: worth the trainfare into town - just to use a non musical measurement!

I had a few other things to do in town today, which I completed.  Not on the list was buying my "racing shirt" or that should be "riding shirt", which I did.  Actually, this is shirt no 3!  - but its a perfect fit and the right fit for Taupo.  The first 2 I ordered off the internet, and hello I am not a large Italian size.  I still need to downsize to that category, so those shirts will need to be worn another time. The shirt I will wear on 26 Novemebr is a Livestrong yellow shirt.  Its a Nike dri fit, the same as my other yellow shirt, just with the Livestrong logo on it.  I pruchased it from the Lockerroom shop on Lambton Quay.  When I walked in (about 9am or so) one of the guys asked me if I was off the cruise ship that was in town today.  My response was "I wish".  Then I corrected it and said  "no, not really, cruise ships aren't really my thing".

I tried various sizes on in the fitting room.  In the other fitting room there were two white boys in their  20s being quite particular about what shirts and colours looked cool and didn't.  It made me laugh (just quietly, of course).

I'm happy with the shirt I've got now.  I'm also happy, that like going into the bike shop, I no longer feel intimated making "sports purchases".  I buy what fits for today.   And actually the salespeople want a sale, so it all works out.

I have one more day (tomorrow) and then start my new contract on Thursday.

I can't decide what kind of road ride I will do tomorrow.  Part of me wants to do a really long flat ride.  The other part wants to aim for 100km or over again.  I was going to "ask the audience"...?, but I have quite a quiet audience!  Today's though your chance to determine tomorrow's journey!

Here's a cool quote I came across today (and try and remember it in 10 days time :-))
"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey." Kenji Miyazawa