caliente

so the knee hasn't been feeling all that wonderful, but today i said what the hell and decided to meet the group and see how it felt. this was kind of a last minute decision and the 8am meet time came rather fast.. i'm glad i met up with the group, the knee was feeling a touch strange for about the first hour, but then it felt like a champ. we rode east on some roads that had very little vehicle traffic and it was a great time. this is the largest group ride i've been on while here and for the most part the group stayed together, with a couple pee breaks and some rolling regrouping. met some nice folks who continued to look out for me and point out some neat stuff.

you know, cyclists are cyclists......if you get someone who loves to ride a bike on a bike most all their worries go away, they're happy, cheery, excited, some are even chatty.....and that's what i love about cycling, the folks that do it because they love it, and they love doing it with others.

this week hasn't been difficult for me in clinic but more of a mental drain, got to see some patients that i enjoyed working with go home, and that's always good, and saw some/heard some things that quite literally pissed me off....they are out of my hands at this point and posting them on my blog won't help anyone out.....so lets just say some people have other feelings about their job, where as patient care comes before my job. oh and this paperwork thing sucks ass.....

as for other things in life, well somtimes you just gotta say "what the fuck" and keep truckin along. which leads back to the bike, i love my bike and i'm so happy that riding a bike keeps me happy, sane and countless other things. i'm not the slowest, definatly not the fastest, rarely the first up a climb, most often the first down a descent, always willing to take my pull + at the front, always willing to sacrifice myself to help out a teammate that has a better shot at winning, and when i'm on a bike i almost always have a huge smile inside....that's what matters to me...and i hope those that i ride with feel the same...anyway enough with the little rant but just know that my bike is a constant in life, it's always there ready to put that smile on my face and/or make me think better thoughts when life throws you that curve ball of "what the fuck!"

OK, time to put groceries away.....i also get happy when i can shop at trader joes!