1000 Miles for MS

Yesterday I rode with Julie and it was a nice ride! We took a route that we haven't ridden before, it followed along the Newaukum River, it was a beautiful ride. It had some nice rolling hills, nothing major, but it was a good start for Julie as we've been riding the Tenino Trails. Poor Julie, she is riding a crossover bike, and she gets a workout compared to me riding the road bike! Brad tells me that it's not fair and I should ride my mountain bike when we ride together. I think he just wants me to have a better work out.

Julie is in! She told me that she is planning on riding the full 1000 miles with me for Bike MS! I was so excited to hear this as I really enjoy riding with her! Brad told me last night that he, too, is thinking of working it out so that he can ride the full 1000 miles with us as well. Julie said that we should name the ride "1000 Freakin' miles" but I don't think that name will go very well with our purpose, but it did make me laugh!

I need to work on my fear of dogs while riding. I think that I am attracting them to me as they do scare me! We rode past a house, I have Julie lead as she is on the harder to pedal bike so I let her set the pace, and two dogs came out. One was a young dog and I was keeping my eye on him. Julie rode through fine, but I think that I made my first mistake when I slowed down. I made my second mistake by watching the younger dog as the older dog come up on my opposite side and bit my ankle! I let out a very surprised "ow"! I think that the dog was just surprised as I was that he had actually bit me.

It didn't break skin, just startled me and then the dogs both ran back to their yard. I know that animals can sense things and I need to get this fear of the dogs out of my system. I also need to learn to NOT slow down and give them a chance to catch me LOL!

Tomorrow I ride with Brad and he knows the dogs on the route. I will begin sending out thoughts that there will be NO dogs running out at us long before I ever get to where they might be ... if I believe it strong enough maybe I'll change the vibes that I'm sending out. You never know! I'll keep you posted!