May 8, 2012

I’m really trying to blog as much as I can on here, but with working full time and a lot of riding and errands this weekend, I got a little behind on what I wanted to do. I started off this morning with some Overnight Oats that I got from the Peanut Butter Fingers. She usually adds banana or strawberries to it and it really makes a difference. I really love strawberries, and I used honey strawberry greek yogurt to flavor it a little more. I like snacking on it too.

Tonight for dinner, I made some chicken with some Trader Joe’s Island Soyaki marinade on it. We are pairing it with some brown rice. Mike and I used to eat salmon and brown rice ALL THE TIME when we first got married, so it brought back memories busting out the Uncle Ben’s brown rice again.

I wasn’t able to get a ride workout in tonight since I got home from work too late, so it will be a one mile run around the neighborhood with Barney and then some of this:

So we have a 12 hour race on Saturday in Ruidoso, New Mexico. Mike is excited because he signed us up for a four man coed team. The reason why he did it was that there is a greater chance to podium if you are on a coed team because there will hardly be any people signed up for it. Most people want to race all boys or all girls. We were hoping to be the only team. As a matter of fact, we were the only ones that were signed up as of Saturday.

Well….they extended the deadline and guess what happened? A group signed up. Tonight I got a frantic phone call from Mike while he was out biking and he tells me to check out the group. Usually when we race we will look up the roster and start measuring up the competition by Googling or looking on nmcycling.org for people who have raced before. My senses told me to look on Google first because the girl signed up was from Tucson, Arizona. And this was the first link I got:

“Women of Giant: Cindy Lacotta”

Cindy Lacotta, Giant’s only female account executive, sets a precident for reaching out to new riders and growing the women’s cycling community in her Southwestern territory. Cindy, truly a jack-of-all-trades, has worked as a as an electrician for stage productions, usually running a spotlight (citing that she’s seen Cats waaaaay too many times), has a background working in bike shops, and as you’ll read in a few minutes, has even been part of an archeaological dig!

In case you don’t know, Giant is a maker of mountain bikes and road bikes.I have some work to do…