Anxiety....Weather....
Wow...I just realized it was August 6th...I woke up at about 3 am in the full on sweats, oh my god i am about to ride across the country on my bike...I opened a bottle of Pinot Gris (my favourite summer wine) and started thinking more and more about my bike ride as i consumed this delicous beverage...Can i do it? Can i wake up at 2 am in the pissing rain and ride my bike for 3 hours in the dark...Dodging Moose, Deer, Mosquitos the size of Sparrows (in Manitoba)...Truckers...People in a hurry on the Highway...All the little things that i haven't thought about started creeping into my little brain...This entire year i have been so focussed on the training and the food ( my little role in this journey)...Make sure we have enough food, enough fuel, and make sure that i train smart enough that when September roles around that i am ready to go and go hard...But like any other Race (that is how i am looking at it a Race, we are in a race across the country and we are in a race to cure J.D.) you start thinking about weird things...If you have ever gone to watch Iron Man you know what i mean...No matter how well you prepare you start thinking about small things...So those were my small things, weird but they were my concerns...After sitting on the deck of my friends cottage for two hours and finishing the bottle of wine i was feeling better, much better...I went back to bed and thought no problems, this baby is in the bag....
But oh wait....
The entire training the other little tidbit that has been sitting on the teams mind has been the weather...Especially this year because the weather has been totally bizarre...Hail in Calgary in August (the size of tennis balls), Snow at Lake Louise in July, Snow at the Toll Booth in July, 45 degree heat in Toronto...and finally Rain and wind like you have never seen the likes of before on The 97c coming home this weekend...I was driving home Tuesday night, it was about midnight and i was cruising along nicely on the connector, it had been a beutifull night drive and i started thinking this would be a beutifull night ride, what a lucky person someone will be who gets to do this wicked climb and descent...Not 15 minutes later the Gods attacked..Wind so strong ( a head wind) that the speed signs we horizontal, rain so hard that i couldnt' see the road in front of me...This lasted until i got to Hope, that is about 180k of some of the worst driving i have ever been in during my tiny existence on this planet...I went from "wow what beutifull ride" to "oh my god the poor sucker who is riding in this is going to be scared"...
After waking up my wife and chatting with her about my concerns she talked me down a bit, and we chatted about adversity, conquering, victory, and goals. All strong words that mean a lot me...Not unlike the families that have to deal with JD every day....I guess we just take what life has given us and deal with it as we move along...
There is nothing any of us can on Team H2V except Drive, Support, Fundraise, Ride and do our part to hlep find a cure for J.D. on the way.
Look forward to our Send off on September 6th, hope to see you all there....
Keith
But oh wait....
The entire training the other little tidbit that has been sitting on the teams mind has been the weather...Especially this year because the weather has been totally bizarre...Hail in Calgary in August (the size of tennis balls), Snow at Lake Louise in July, Snow at the Toll Booth in July, 45 degree heat in Toronto...and finally Rain and wind like you have never seen the likes of before on The 97c coming home this weekend...I was driving home Tuesday night, it was about midnight and i was cruising along nicely on the connector, it had been a beutifull night drive and i started thinking this would be a beutifull night ride, what a lucky person someone will be who gets to do this wicked climb and descent...Not 15 minutes later the Gods attacked..Wind so strong ( a head wind) that the speed signs we horizontal, rain so hard that i couldnt' see the road in front of me...This lasted until i got to Hope, that is about 180k of some of the worst driving i have ever been in during my tiny existence on this planet...I went from "wow what beutifull ride" to "oh my god the poor sucker who is riding in this is going to be scared"...
After waking up my wife and chatting with her about my concerns she talked me down a bit, and we chatted about adversity, conquering, victory, and goals. All strong words that mean a lot me...Not unlike the families that have to deal with JD every day....I guess we just take what life has given us and deal with it as we move along...
There is nothing any of us can on Team H2V except Drive, Support, Fundraise, Ride and do our part to hlep find a cure for J.D. on the way.
Look forward to our Send off on September 6th, hope to see you all there....
Keith
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