Training with Hannah Montana and the Easter Bunny

Good week on the bike, managed to get close to 200 miles in (and only one 5 mile run, but my achilles is feeling a whole lot better...). Was out for 40+ with Kimball, Cort, Jim, Vic, and GFG for a cold and windy morning ride on Saturday. It is the first time I'd ridden with Steve on the road and the notoriety is well-placed. The guy was on a 'cross bike (with knobby tires mind you), and pulling at 20+. Animal!!! Cort, Jim and Vic are to be highly commended for riding from H2O-Town all the way to Stow (about 25 I'm guessing?) into a stiff head wind to join the MRC crew for our 40 mile "spin" and then all the way back home...they must have done between 70 and 80 miles all told which is just awesome. I followed Saturday up with a pre-Easter 50 mile solo ride and got smoked on the way home by the same headwind that the Watertown boys faced on Saturday....just with no one to help out!!! All in all I am pleased thus far. Cort's advice is to try and get no less than 3 centuries in prior to the Harpoon B2B ride in June, so I need to map those out this week, get them on the calendar and commit to them.

On Satuday I took Meghan out on an indoor climbing trip--she just got her first harness and she really is enjoying it. We had to "rock out" to Hannah Montana all the way there and back...I wonder what music I was into when I was 7? I highly doubt it was anything as cool as Ms. Cyrus that's for sure. Megger knows all the words to all the songs....and insists that I have it on my iPod (which I do....). Perhaps the funnier aspect is her 3 year old sister, who is quickly coming up to speed on the lyrics as well.

Y'day we were all out to the 413 for some Easter fun--spent a wonderful day with my folks and the kids got to enjoy all the "goodness" of Easter....while I'm not a deeply religious sort you just have to wonder....what exactly does a candy carrying adolescent rabbit have to do with the Ressurection??? Did he live in the ground beneath the cross? I never did quite get that-maybe I should have paid more attention in CCD???