After my re-set I woke early on Friday for a ride out to the Dalles again.... I went sans music which is new and weird. I felt like getting quiet and clear, and guess what? I saw a bob-cat's butt! I've never seen a bob cat and never seen a real wildcat in Oregon. Once a cougar watched us teach in Yosemite and once a cougar yelled when I lived in a Yurt on Mount Hood, but I saw this lil guy's spotted butt rock hopping. I slammed to a stop, cut my knee and clickityclacked up some rocks in what in afterthought was a very not sneaky approach. Obviously the cat hid.
The other exciting part of the ride was running into a friend on the trail. I feel more and more like this Hood River place is somewhere I could hang. Schemes of trailers and nesting and dinners and gardens and settling in are all over my rides and runs.
We drove to Walla Walla after my ride where I've been running out along this trail called Mill Creek which is a shallow creek with geese and ducks and tiny waterfalls. Tonight was a night run to get in my 2.5 hours today around teaching and my so-kind coinstructor met me at the most amazing Thai place: Bangkok 103 in College Place, WA for a spicy feast post cold dark great run, best Thai I've ever had. I'm getting well again and training is getting fun again which is great. I'm excited to be home again tomorrow night and back in the pool this week.
This is a total "jock-report!"
The Epic Continues... This is the blog I started when I signed up and began training for Ironman Coeur d'Alene, my first Ironman triathlon (2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike, 26.2 mile run). I trained for 10 months. On June 26 20011 I went to Idaho to do it, something went wrong in the cold water, I didn't make the swim cut off and was pulled from the race. Huge bummer. In a fog of disappointment I signed up for Ironman Canada on Aug 28 to get er done.
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