“I could never do what you’re doing!” I told a guy named Cody at a church in Dallas. I was speaking there and he had just cycled in with the Ride:Well team, a group of fifteen or so people who were biking across the country.
Rattling off a list of reasons (including a very legit heart issue) he told me to one, get my heart fixed…and two, do the ride.
So last summer I made the vow. If I could get my heart fixed, I’d do it.
And my heart got fixed.
And I signed up for the ride.
We begin the ride across the country for Blood:Water Mission on June 6, but as part of my training, Thursday I, along with two other cyclists will be riding 100 miles (also known as a century ride).
They’ve done it before. In fact, one of them just rode 165 miles a few weekends ago.
I’ve only gone 50 miles. Once.
Most of my rides are 15-25 miles long. I think I had a 36 miler in there too.
But 100?
I twittered about it Wednesday and had so many people say, “I could NEVER do that!”
Yeah – me too! I’m still thinking this is a crazy idea!
But here’s the deal.
I CAN.
YOU CAN.
If me, a non-athletic, pasty white, nerd-author girl can ride a bike 100 miles, so can you.
Or maybe it’s not cycling, but there’s something you’ve been putting off.
But you need to do it.
You have a choice – say YES to the unknown, the scary, the uncomfortable, the exhilarating, the embarrassing, and you will be saying YES to an adventure you could never in a million years dream up.
So, you may not be riding 100 miles today (in 90* weather, with 60% humidity — not that I’m paying attention to my Weather App…) but in solidarity, would you do SOMETHING a little out of the norm today?
If you’d like to see where we’re riding, you can click here.
If you want to donate to our ride (the money doesn’t go TO us, it goes to support Blood:Water mission) you can click here.
And for the love, tell us what’s one crazy thing you want to do, or one crazy thing you’re going to do today!
I’ll be back as quickly as possible to continue the series on slowness and let you know how the ride went! You can follow my Twitter here to know the latest!