Mental Gibberish & Garbage From The Road.

Perhaps some would also call it palaver, babble, nonsense, brain vomit or even prate.  I say its all fun and games until someone looses an eye! 

Well, whatever you want to call it...I had a nugget full on my ride the other day. Its this mental tomfoolery that gets me thru many a workout.  I just sorta wander off in my brain and then before you know it I'm finished with the task at hand.  Seems like a good idea in theory but sometimes it poses problems...Like when you need to count your laps in a swim set.  I HATE loosing count, but it happens all the time because I start thinking about something else then flip turn and think.....now that was 27 right??? Ahhh..HELL......ok this one is 27.  I probably do at least 100 meters extra a workout just because of my crazy brain!!  I of course am not accepting ANY responsibility what so ever.  :PP  I blame my hyper/ADDHD/OCD  Sam mind....it's not my fault, I think they crossed some wires along the way when they were putting me together.  

So here I am going out for little "jaunt" of a workout.  AARRGHHHHHH, I think my coach is secretly trying to kill me.  1.5 hour Time Trial Intervals 3x10x8 @ 280 watts with 90-95 cadence.  YEAH, thats seems like fun.  :PP NOT SO MUCH. Away I go....warming up until I get to the highway, which I know you're saying seems like the ideal place to ride my bike. WELLLLLLLLL.....its not too bad unless its windy, or the traffic is bad, or there are a lot of big rig driving VERY FAST......or even the occasional hitchhiker that wants a ride.  WTH????  

I hit my timer and I dig in to the first interval.  GOODIE, this is going to be fun......then all of a sudden someone is touching my back...YIKES, WTH????  I turn and look and its a friend of mine who is a cyclist. ( she's a stud btw just rode LOTOJA.....yeah have fun with that one- BLECK)  I try not to slow down and we exchange hi's and such.  Then I blurt out that I'm on intervals today and she says OK.   It's flat so at about the correct power I'm suppose to be hitting we're moving at about 26-27 mph.  Heck this doesn't seem to bad.  :)~  At about 5 minutes in we turn a bit on the road (only slightly) and here comes the wind, gotta dig in a little more which immediately pushes up my watts and lights my quads on fire, my friend ducks in behind me and we keep going.  About another min goes by and she says "she's getting light head and she's going to hang back".  As I try to take a deep breath/gasp/choke for air ( ha ha) I mumble something like "Ok, talk to you later..I'll call you" and I keep moving.  All the while I'm thinking DO NOT SLOW DOWN OR YOU WONT BE ABLE TO KEEP THIS UP MUCH LONGER.  MAN, 10 mins is an eternity when you are at a 10 in effort.  Now granted, I'm not a expert triathlete like many and perhaps this might seem like a pedestrian workout for some.....BUT IT ALWAYS kicks my ASS!  

FINALLY, 10 mins is up and I get to recover.  YAHHOO!  This is when the gibberish begins.....

I notice a hitch hiker walking down the road or should I say HOPING and SKIPPING down the road.  Geeezzz, is it a mirage?  As I get closer the gentleman notices me and starts to wave and then what seems to be a wave for me to stop.  HUH???  NO, I don't think so.....what???.so you can bury me in the desert?  HA! I'm not falling for that one. ;)  I'm almost next to him and he's waving his arms wildly and singing....what you ask......well I don't really know but maybe OPERA and in Italian???  WTH?  Now how many times can you say you're going to see that in a lifetime??  Once if you're lucky.  

As I pull away from the Hitch Hiking Pavarotti the sea of nonsense floods my brain.  Why do they call Opera , "Opera'?  Do you have to be slight "rotund" to be an opera singer? Didn't James Brown and Pavarotti sing together once?  What was that about??  Do they ever lip sync the opera.  Lipsyncing, can you say "Milli Vanilli". http://youtube.com/watch?v=GSqV3rWM4iQ  What a random & tragic little pair that was. SO BUSTED and what was up with those outfits?  Speaking of tragic what was up with New Kids On the Block?  The HAIR??? YIKES.  Were they only big in the 80's?  Hey weren't Members Only jackets BIG in the 80's too. I think the band Loverboy wore them, I know Magnum P.I. wore a jacket.....a tan one.  You know what I think I used to have a record of Magnum P.I. intro music that I played every week before the show started?  Where is that record?  Aww, its hiding by all the toilet paper and paper towel my Dad has hidden. Dad.....poor Dad.....he can't hear me anymore.  :(((  I need to write him a letter.  SHIT, I have to get a card in the mail for a friends birthday next week. Birthday cupcakes, need to makes those too.  Geeez, I wonder whether my friend liked the bread I sent.  I sure hope so.    

OOPPSSS....next interval, and its on a uphill.  GOODIE, thats might make it easier.  Watch out for that glass!  Hmm..how do they make glass??  I wonder how much glass is produced and then recycled every year. Why do they color glass?  I think I need to come out here and sweep this bike lane there is too much debris.  Brooms, hey Samantha from Bewitched had a broom but what was the deal with Darrin?  He looked a little pedophile'ish to me.  Television, how do they run all the cables for that for all the neighborhoods?  For that matter, the phone lines, power lines?  How many miles on utility lineage do you think run thru an average metropolis city?

Millions?  Running.....OMG OMG, thats right Dean K is right now running on a treadmill for 48 hours.  He's nuts!!! ;)  Remember to call or text him today to give him encouragement!  Hey is that a happy face sticker on the ground?  Awww how sweet.......(insert car honking sound and yelling) Honk honk......WWOOO HOOOOOOOOOO...... Oh how sweet they must like my .......... bike..............yeah, they think my bike is hot..... thats it, thats the ticket.  

MEN, :0)~~  Shesshh, if you put long blonde hair and pair of long legs on a goat they'd probably honk at it.  BUT THANKS, nice to know something looks good because I feel like I want to DIE right now! Hmm..how would a goat ride a bike?  Could it use the aero bars??  Nahh........:)

Time to recover again........( and for the record yes I still had one more interval but I figured I was possibly giving people nightmares, so I left the last batch of craziness out)

Are you NERVOUS YET?  Heck I would be,  but you had fair warning.  I think by now you have figured out I was dropped a few times as a baby!! tthhrrrpppptttt.  But seriously, you see the ABSOLUTE NUTTY CRAP that floats around in my brain!!!!!  WHY IS THAT?  OK, maybe you shouldn't venture a guess.

Does anybody else do this or am I apparently the only living brain donor left in the world???!!!

I do promise however that "WHATEVER" I have, its not contagious. (wink-wink) 

Isn't that a pretty picture of my brain........