New bike

I got a new bike yesterday! I already had a bike, but it was an Electra cruiser, which looks awesome and is very comfy to ride to the store, it cannot get up hills or go with any sort of speed at all. So, I picked up a Specialized Vita, which is an entry level sort of bike that I could do a triathlon on, but mostly I will be using it for cross training as I prepare for a marathon.

I need to figure out how to post pictures of my rides. This area is so beautiful and that beauty is uplifting to my tired, mommied-out soul. Yesterday I rode 9 miles and today I rode just shy of 6 miles. I was planning to go just a bit further, but my husband got called out to work so I needed to get home to take over kid-duty while he earned a paycheck.

There are now parts of my anatomy that hurt that I didn't even realize existed. I now understand padded bike shorts. I think tomorrow I better run so that I can allow my lady business to recover. Running is a bit rough right now because of arthritis acting up in my joints and the fact that I don't have the stamina that I had pre-baby. It was so fun to just go and run for 90 minutes without really thinking about it, but now I just can't quite do that. Also, even though I am out without my baby, I am not really baby-free. I check my phone every 5-10 minutes to be sure my husband doesn't need me to come back yet and if I think about the baby too much then my sports bra starts to fill with milk. He is effecting my run even when he isn't with me :)

We will see what I can bust out tomorrow!