I’m a spandex stalker
After riding yesterday, I Tweeted about my time up the mountain. I commented on how I seemed to be stuck on 12 minutes. One of my teammates responded saying that maybe I should take a break from the climb and come back later. “It seems like every ride ends up over the mountain,” he said. I probably need to explain.
Last year I set three goals for myself. 1) complete a century every month between March and August, 2) finish the Assault on Mt. Mitchell in under 7 hrs 30 mins, and 3) climb Altamont Road in under 12 minutes. Well, I completed numbers one and two. However, I never managed to get under that barrier. So, I am somewhat obsessed with completing that one goal hanging over my head.
I also had an embarrassing moment on my ride. As I was going through Cleveland Park, I looked over and saw a girl running on the path below me. I did a double-take. It looked like it might be my sister-in-law, Erin. This person’s hair looked a little shorter and Erin works in Greer. However, I know that she is training for a marathon and she does sometimes cut her hair shorter, so perhaps it was her.
As I passed over the trail as it goes beneath Cleveland Street, the girl was going under it. From even that distance I thought so much that it was Erin that I called out her name. She went under just about that time. I kept riding and turned around to come back to see her.
Oops. It wasn’t Erin. The girl looked at me and I then knew it wasn’t my sister-in-law. She kind of gave me a weird smile and I imagine she picked up her pace a little. I rode on as though nothing had happened. My guess is she didn’t really think she was being stalked by a guy in spandex.
It was a good ride overall. I had to get out at lunch because my schedule is so packed this week. No evenings were available for riding. This was the first time on the bike since Sunday. I need to get in some miles… Mount Mitchell is right around the corner!
Tags: Cleveland Park, Goals, Paris Mountain
nice, I think we can all relate to that, funny. I will ease away from work to go up the road to cheer the MT Mitchell folks on, I’ll be the guy in the walking boot, thats clapping but looks really sad that he is not on his bike.