DOROTHY AND TOTO

So I've been going to the gym at 5:00 in the morning for the past few weeks as part of my "training" for the Sprint Triathalon coming up in May. Fingers crossed! Anyhow, after a few weeks of early mornings, congruent with a week of late nights at work because of our state survey, I have started to feel spent. This morning there was NO WAY I was dragging myself out of bed to go sit on a stationary bike. As luck would have it, I was all the way caught up at work this morning so I decided to take the afternoon off to make up for my abundant amount of accumulating over-time. Since the weather has been phenomenal this past month I decided to go on a bike ride outside. Jack the Dog had spent most of the day sleeping under my desk, so I strapped his little basket to my bike (only a girl could get away with it and even then it looks a little gay) and took him along. What a sport! He sat facing forward, his ears flapping back in the wind, looking half dog/half bat. The whole thing was good times until I was between mile 4 and 5, and I realized that my front tire was almost all the way flat. Awesome!! Riding a bike with a six pound dog, a five pound basket, and only one good tire is fabulous! One more day of training completed AND I didn't even have to take Jack out for a walk. Apparently sitting in a basket with the wind blowing in your face is also quite a chore. Within 5 minutes of getting home he was out. Whatever works!!!