Day 7 - my first challenge accomplished

Saturday was a very eventful day. I had decided that I would ride from my house to River Legacy Park. When I first decided to do this I thought it was a really good idea. I would do it no problem. Then the day came. I had to get up and do it. I was very nervous. I am not sure about what. Riding from the house. On real roads. And then the no turning back issue. I mean you are pretty committed once you leave and get out there. Well, I did it. I rode. Of course at some point the bicycle computer fell off. I was a little irritated, but it isn’t like I ever got the stupid thing working. I will just have to guess how many miles I have ridden I guess. I kept going. Now the part where I almost died. Tammye said don’t ride down Cook’s since it is rather narrow. Go down Sandy. Ok, so I did and I turned on to the street I would take. The incline from hell! I thought I was going to die. The section of the road getting out of my neighborhood was up and down hills. I was either having a heart attack getting up the hill or flying so fast I thought I would crash into something. Eventually, I came out onto the road by Target. And now I knew I was going to go the rest of the way because there was no way I was going back up that hill. Oh, b the way thanks Tam great idea. I think my heart rate monitor said something like 237. Now I was on a major road. I was very intimidated with all the cars around me. Finally I got to the bike path that leads to the park. It seemed like it would never end. But I was going to do this. I kept pedaling. Then the turn to the park was right there. I have to admit I started to smile. I had done it. I had accomplished something that a week, a month or a year ago I would have said I could never do. I pedal to the parking lot because I had also decided that there was NO WAY IN FREAKIN HELL I WAS PEDALING BACK HOME. I couldn’t find my ride and all I could think was...oh my lord I am gonna have to do that again. I am not there at that point yet. I know that I will be. I won’t even think twice about that, but not after only 6 days of riding. No I am definitely not there yet. But screw all that I did it. I started it and I finished it. I rode bike, on the real road for almost 10 miles and I did it in 40 minutes. So, put that in your pipe and smoke it. I totally rock