Started my training!

Managed to make it out today for a short (1-hour) bike ride with B..  We had intended to do the full Portola Loop, but turned back early because it was starting to get dark.

I felt okay – slow, but better than I expected considering how long I’ve been off the bike.  By the end of an hour, my back was starting to bother me, but other than that I could have gone on riding for an hour or two more, easily.  No problems from my lungs – I still have that residual cough, but riding doesn’t seem to irritate it.  Good news!  That means I can go back to training without worrying about the bronchitis.

Tomorrow I’m going to the gym to lift weights and do some core exercises – have to rebuild after a good long time away.  Hopefully it won’t be too hard.

AIDS Lifecycle leaves at the beginning of June, so I don’t have much time to train – only about four months, which is (just barely) enough.  So I need to be pretty serious about my training from now on.

(If you just joined us, AIDS Lifecycle is a cycling fundraiser for AIDS services – we raise a minimum of $2500 for one of two AIDS charities, then bicycle from San Francisco to Los Angeles, 545 miles total, in just seven days – averaging just under 80 miles/day!)