God is Coming, Mem-saab! (Out of Africa ref)

I have put in about thirty miles over the last two days! It has been beautiful here...but I am very,very scared about the PMC, which is only 5 weeks away! I am in no way ready for this!

What I am ready for is my breast surgery tomorrow which I have been waiting to have for a VERY LONG TIME!

And it almost didn't happen after a huge scare about the scar mass in right breast, 21 years after lumpectomy and 6,000 rads of radiation! All is well after mammogram, biopsy and MRI found nothing! Yeah! I will be out of commission for about ten days...which will leave me less then four weeks to get trained! It is going to be UGLY!

I am very excited and happy about my surgery tomorrow...imagine...me having a surgery that doesn't require a bowel prep! AWESOME!

Wish me luck!

Everything is Falling Apart! I Have Bruins' Fever

A beautiful morning for a ride today! I am completely frustrated! My phone, which I use to take pictures on my rides was seriously injured texting back and forth with Mike Yoffe in LA and my cousin Carolyn in New York and my brother during the Stanley Cup Finals! Then I dropped it and it is now dead! So I used a badly edited pic of me in Vancouver for today's post!

I was only able to do a lousy seven miles today in this beautiful weather thanks to my usual IT Band problems and my neck, which I strained during a 40 mile trek on the Cape Cod Rail Trail, in a torrential and cold rain storm!
It was not only awful weather, my brakes broke and my Cat Eye stopped working...after four faithful years, my bike is failing! I am not used to this! I am used to my body not working...but not my bike! I can take my IT Band and my neck......but NOT MY BIKE!!!!

Having reconstructive surgery on the 30th after all these years! I am happy about it...but the rcovery time is going to eat into my training and the PMC is only 8 weeks away!

Maybe I am just suffering from Bruins' Fever!