On the Home Stretch

With only a few days left before the Challenge event the excitement is building. I received an email today inviting me and a guest to the pre-event dinner on Saturday evening. Robin and I are planning to make a fun evening of that. The email indicated that Lance will indeed be addressing the attendees and I'm looking forward to hearing him speak.

We'll be heading to downtown San Jose earlier on Saturday to pick up all of our materials for the event. The street closure signs have been posted in and around downtown for the past week. It's shaping up to be a fun and action-packed weekend.

I'm continuing to rack up miles, with a 26.5 mile ride yesterday and a 24 mile ride today. Today's ride was a tough one because I climbed the north side of Hicks, easily one of the toughest hills in the area. I use this hill as a metric of my conditioning. Trying to do Hicks with insufficient miles in your legs is just asking for trouble. Even with 500+ miles in my legs over the past 5 weeks it was still a difficult climb. It didn't help that the only time I had to ride today was at lunch time so the temperature was warmer than I would have liked. It still felt great to be out riding, though, and the past two days brought my mileage total up to 561 with two more training days before the big event. I'm planning to take it easy on Saturday and haven't decided what's on tap for tomorrow. We'll see how I'm feeling in the morning.

I also received two more donations from co-workers and that's always a lift. My fundraising total is now $3,570. I've received more than $500 in donations from fellow Adobe employees, so with our company's generous matching gift program my final total will be over $4,000. I continue to find inspiration in the support I've received. Thanks again to everyone.


Mileage so far: 561
Days left: 2