{"id":5450,"date":"2015-12-16T18:41:27","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T00:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/?p=5450"},"modified":"2016-04-12T18:32:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T00:32:29","slug":"embarkation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/16\/embarkation\/","title":{"rendered":"Embarkation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always say that I want to post shorter, more frequent blogs, but then life gets busy, I find a pocket once a week to spew my thoughts here, and it&#8217;s somewhere between 1500 and 1 million words.\u00a0 Which&#8230; I&#8217;m pretty sure is TL:DR for most people.<\/p>\n<p>Since this is the first day of vacation, I finally have the time daily to compose some thoughts, so I&#8217;m going to attempt to do that.\u00a0 It&#8217;s about establishing habits, and frankly, seeing if this is something I actually want to do or not.<\/p>\n<p>So, embarkation it is.\u00a0 The first day of my 20 day work break.\u00a0 The start of my gentle return to being an endurance athlete. I&#8217;m DEFINITELY ready for the former, and think last night was an inkling that I&#8217;m ready for the latter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/bike.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-5452\" src=\"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/bike.jpg\" alt=\"bike\" width=\"399\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/bike.jpg 596w, https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/bike-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/bike-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For some reason, I&#8217;ve been more motivated to ride than do anything else, so I&#8217;ve been rolling with it.\u00a0 The running will return because I have goals, obviously, but I&#8217;ve been indulging the cycling the last 2 days.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, we decided to do a Holiday Light social group ride with our new team (Bicycle Sport Shop) because it sounded fun.\u00a0 It also sounded absolutely terrifying because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This is my third group ride ever, and the biggest by far.<\/li>\n<li>This is only my second ride at night in my adult life (the first was 3 miles last week around the neighborhood at about 7 mph).<\/li>\n<li>I haven&#8217;t ridden my bike outside since September 29th.<\/li>\n<li>New team = new people to make an ass of myself on the bike in front of.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But, the weather held out and Zliten was really into it and didn&#8217;t let me make excuses and we went for our first group ride with our new team.<\/p>\n<p>It was a little wonky to get started, and I was terrified at each stop to tip over so I unclipped both pedals each time, but the actual RIDE was great. I decided I wasn&#8217;t going to be scared, even though my headlight sucked and I could barely see,and just enjoy and have fun and&#8230; I did!<\/p>\n<p>This was a total social ride, we rolled at about 12.5 mph with stops at lights and some time checking out particularly awesomely lit streets. But I feel like I didn&#8217;t totally screw up riding with a bunch of people and had an absolute blast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/BSS.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-5451\" src=\"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/BSS.jpg\" alt=\"BSS\" width=\"406\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/BSS.jpg 595w, https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/BSS-300x295.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We all sat down and had some beers after, and I can confirm that these are great people and I&#8217;m going to try to ride with them as much as I can this year. It won&#8217;t be all that much before March because of that marathon thing marathon, but this spring, my goal will be to become completely comfortable on the road with people while I&#8217;m not training for anything in specific.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a great way for me to maintain some fitness while working towards another goal of mine.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I think these people are going to be just faster-than-me enough to challenge me on the bike and get better.\u00a0 I was chatting with a guy who&#8217;s bike time at his 70.3 was my goal at Kerrville (and his goal was a little loftier).\u00a0 This are the kind of people I need to chase around!<\/p>\n<p>Most importantly&#8230; this is the most excited I&#8217;ve been about any sort of sweaty thing in quite a while. I read some blogs and race reports last night and they filled me with excitement for the upcoming year instead of wistfulness.\u00a0 I won&#8217;t say my mojo is completely back yet, but it&#8217;s a good start.<\/p>\n<div data-counters='1' data-style='square' data-size='regular' data-url='https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/16\/embarkation\/' data-title='Embarkation' class='linksalpha_container linksalpha_app_3'><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='facebook' class='linksalpha_icon_facebook'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='twitter' class='linksalpha_icon_twitter'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='googleplus' class='linksalpha_icon_googleplus'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='mail' class='linksalpha_icon_mail'><\/a><\/div><div data-position='' data-url='https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/16\/embarkation\/' data-title='Embarkation' class='linksalpha_container linksalpha_app_7'><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='facebook' class='linksalpha_icon_facebook'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='twitter' class='linksalpha_icon_twitter'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='googleplus' class='linksalpha_icon_googleplus'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='mail' class='linksalpha_icon_mail'><\/a><\/div><div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/16\/embarkation\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\" show-faces='false' width=\"225px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always say that I want to post shorter, more frequent blogs, but then life gets busy, I find a pocket once a week to spew my thoughts here, and it&#8217;s somewhere between 1500 and 1 million words.\u00a0 Which&#8230; I&#8217;m pretty sure is TL:DR for most people. 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