so yesterday was a balls out kind of day, i was just feeling it. since i came into work at 7, i could leave at 3, and i thought it would be a great idea to go for a long ride to start to get ready for the seattle-to-portland, which is in july. as anyone who lives around here knows, it was glorious yesterday, as it is today as well, almost 90 degrees around here, it feels amazing.

so i went around burke-gilman to UW, where i popped onto lake washington boulevard, to the i-90 bridge, cutting through bellevue to 148th and making my way back to bothell via burke gilman again. all in all it was probably about 50 miles, in about 5 hours.

the major good part: i made it, closely followed by no puking throughout it either. there was cramping and tunnel vision though, so i’m definatly going to need to do some work. this is heartening to methough , if i want to ride 200 miles in two days. it lets me know that i need to get my ass in to long-distance shape, but since my body isn’t a complete wreck at all today, a month will be plenty of time to prepare.

i’m excited to say the least, i’ve never tried anything of this caliber before, and since i don’t think i’ll be able to run a marathon for a while without my left calf exploding (due to thin blood and clots and whatnot), this will be a good substitue.

the route map looks great as well, if i don’t spend most of it staring at the ground.