Birthday Weekend Extravaganza

Posted on May 28, 2012 by thefasteryoupedal

I think everyone likes to milk their birthday for all its worth. When I am with my family, I try to make a week out of it. Since we are going to San Diego soon, I narrowed my birthday down to a weekend event and made a to-do list of only three days.

I love how proper Barney is in this picture. He always thinks he has to be part of things.

One of my Friday list items was to go on my last 31 year old ride. We chose the “jeep road”, which is a good workout. We had to take a candid shot before we took off.

It starts off on some technical and then its time to go miles up a long, winding, steep road.

Love sporting the pink socks from www.zensah.com . Mike said he could see me coming from a mile away.

Saturday, my only goal was to get my hair done, and go to dinner. I know it doesn’t seem like a lot but it had been MONTHS since I had my hair done and I was long overdue. Also, everyone was booked including my normal hair girl, so I chanced it and went to a new salon. She did great.

That night we went to St. Claire’s Winery and Bistro. Excellent choice. We were able to eat outside since it was so nice out, and we listened to a live band.

We ordered some house salads to start. I usually take my tomatoes and push them to the side, but I actually ate them this time! So good!

Mike ordered some meatballs for an appetizer and the marinara sauce was quite tasty.

His entree was a prime rib. He always has to get his horseradish raw with it because he says its “intense”. Here is what I have to witness:

He says its like a “drug”. Sicko.

I ordered the chicken with Hatch Chile (in honor of New Mexico). It was very spicy, which I loved. I highly recommend this place for anyone visiting Mesilla, NM.

Instagram

Posted on May 26, 2012 by thefasteryoupedal

I am really loving Instagram. I already take enough pictures every day (a little too much) and its nice to have an instant update to Twitter and Facebook. The other night I was trail running and I took this picture of Mike:

Mike loved it! He said it made him look really fast. Boys.

Solar Eclipse of The Heart

Posted on May 26, 2012 by thefasteryoupedal

This is a few days late, but better late than never!

Last Sunday, we heard there was going to be a solar eclipse and the western part of the United States was going to have a pretty good show. We were told in Las Cruces that it would only be about 40 percent, but we took our chances anyway and went out to check it out.

Mike rode his bike to the top of a local mountain (called A Mountain). It’s about a mile high and it looks over the city. I decided I was going to run it since I am training for a half next month. We weren’t the only ones with the idea.

It was cool because the temperature changed so quickly and there was a haze around us. If you look at the picture with Mike, it almost looks like it is dark out.

We found out that the best thing to use besides the elementary school pinhole boxes is believe or not, old welding masks. A couple had some and shared with us and we were able to take a picture through it.

This is what it looked like partially through it.

What a neat thing to witness! I’m so glad we did it!

Stephanie’s Baby Shower

Posted on May 20, 2012 by thefasteryoupedal

Stephanie is another science teacher at my job. We both talked about getting pregnancy this year and she got pregnant pretty quickly. So the whole year we have gone through all the stages of pregnancy and it was so fun to watch her.

Now that school is ending, she is getting ready to have the baby so we held a shower for her. Here she is with her presents.

Some of the words of advice.

The cake.

The diaper cake. Cute idea.

The whole gang showed up…

Cody’s Birthday

Posted on May 20, 2012 by thefasteryoupedal

Cody invited all the girls out for her birthday at Olive Garden. What a great idea! We all have been so busy with things going on in our lives that we needed to take a little breather. Here is the group. Most of us play volleyball together.

Cody was excited because she go a Happy Birthday from Abe on her facebook!

Bad Luck on the Bike

Posted on May 20, 2012 by thefasteryoupedal

Last week Mike was riding with some friends on a road ride and a car turned in front of the group. They all had to brake on their bikes and another rider hit him. Poor Postal Service bike was gone.

The plan was to sell our Lexus and use it on a new bike.

So we bought a new bike and it came in on Friday. Mike went on his first ride Saturday morning a day later, this is what it looked like:

It snapped.

What a good looking bike. If you look closer, you can see the rear art of the frame broken off. Again, the bike was rear ended.

Thank you Trek for warranties.

Monday Catch Up!

Posted on May 8, 2012 by thefasteryoupedal

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:

High Altitude Classic

Posted on May 5, 2012 by thefasteryoupedal

It’s been years since Mike has raced in Cloudcroft, since they had to stop it for a while and then ended up cancelling it last year because of fires. We finally got to go try it out and even better, were able to sleep in our own beds the night before.

This was my first Cloudcroft race and I was VERY nervous considering I had gotten way out of shape during the winter and lost all hill climbing skills I gained last season. Here I am right before the race. It was nice because we actually had time to be ready and hang out before the race.

Mike was sporting Crazy Cat and Zia Velo.

The hill climbing was intense and we had to do it twice! Mike was able to do it under two hours and it took me a lot longer. Afterwards, we had todown some pickle juce so we wouldn’t get cramps.