A month ago we bought mountain bikes. And like most people my wife had a New Years resolution regarding fitness. Her goal...To ride in a MTB race.
Now first for some background. About a year and a half ago we also tried training her for a race. A 10km running race. Fair enough it was mid winter in Port Elizabeth, not a very nice place to be. She is not a morning person, almost puked after the first early morning run. Then she couldn't even remember the afternoon that we ran the morning. Hows that for surpressing bad memories. Other excuses included a buzzing in her ears. WHAT! It apparently goes away when she starts to sprint, but come on, you can't sprint if you can barely jog. So after a few weeks she ran her scrunchie off and she quit.
I'm a fitness freak...She is not. She is a couch freak. Especially now that we have a nice new couch and she finished her honours degree. So it can be rather difficult for me to always negotiate anything fitness related. The plus point, she loves the outdoors just as much as me and can be rather stubborn if she wants to.
We are taking on this adventure with a couple of goals in mind. Getting through this without divorce. Getting her to the start line on 25 February still motivated means I need to control my enthusiasm for pushing hard when it comes to training.
The race we are entering is the MERRELL NORM-HUDLIN TRAIL 15km MTB ride. We have 7 weeks to train.
Wish me luck...Wish US luck!
Ps. Follow our scrunch-tious adventures over the next 7 weeks.
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