i completed the Wards Ferry Road Race which really shouldn't be such a big deal, but I have never finished this race. I've done it in the 1234 field and a couple times in the 1/2 field. It's a most beautiful course with cute little houses with porches on the course. one has a bazillion birdhouses of all shapes and sizes.

I stayed with the field for one lap and got shelled coming through the start finish, but unlike other years I did not unclip, pull over to the side and give up.

i mean it makes no sense to stop riding when the course is so gorgeous and I had told myself I would finish this race. So am I quite content.

I thought how Linda never gives up, always gives her darndest, and then more. I have a tendancy to feel sorry for myself and to think that I *should* be doing better than however I am doing. And if someone passes me whom I think shouldn't pass me, it is just further fuel for the sorry party i'm throwing.

attitude adjustment, please, with a side of humble pie.

the other day at a race someone mentioned to Linda that they didn't like the fact that another rider did better than them by coming in second to their third.

Linda said, "let them have their moment". And this stuck with me.

i sometimes feel like a moment hog...

so a good day.