Middleburg Fox Hunt Ride

Middleburg Fox Hunt Ride

This was today’s bike ride. Wow, what a ride is was in which I did 63 miles. I just checked my log and this is the MOST I have ever done on the bike. And considering it took just under 5 hours to do, it is certainly the most time my ass has been in a saddle. Needless to say my little ASS @#%&ing HURTS! So, to tell you a little a bit about this ride, I have to use some quotes from our bike course organizer who does a phenomenal job in picking great courses for us to practice on week after week. I think today, Mother Nature took control. My comments are in italic.

“This is a classic ride, deserving of such a distinctive name…What distinguishes the Middleburg Fox Hunt is that it is THE definitive ride through the beautiful Virginia Horse Country.”
- I cannot come up with a distinctive name to describe a course full of potholes, dead carcasses (and there were a lot), so many cows you get tired of counting them and relentless hills.

“I will confess that this ride is particularly special to me”
- Special, my ASS, because it gave me such a wonderful feeling there called PAIN!

“Looks like it could be 40ish and partly cloudy. They are predicting some wind, but they are also saying it's windy out now. I just walked outside and it was totally calm. Maybe it's windy in other parts of Alexandria???? So, who knows for tomorrow.”
- 40ish – my ASS! It was cold! Totally calm – my ASS! It was so windy I had to pedal hard just to get downhill!

However, in spite the fact that the ride was long, hilly, and my sore ass, this was a great ride because I stayed in my heart rate zone for the most part, and even though I was pretty tired, I kept pushing and finished. I train with a great team and to have the sag crew drive by when you are 2 miles from being done and cheer you on, makes it all worth it. Now onto a nice, easy recovery week….