Ok So I'm Stealing:)

So this is my friend Ruth's story about her new road bike and I just had to steal it and post it on my blog. By the way I got a new bike at the beginning of this summer-it ROCKS! Already put over 600 miles on it in 3 months. (patting myself on the back cause we all know how sick Val was just a short time ago and never thought I would or could do biking again). Anyways she just got her new bike and her post made me laugh because she documented the maiden voyage so well and the pics just speak for themselves....ENJOY

I'm in love....

...with my first road bike - a 2009 scattante 660, decked out with Shimano Ultegra parts . (For you nonbikers out there, my old bike was like a honda accord and this bike feels like a porsche).
Here are pix from the inaugural ride with my friends Kristin & Val, who also love road biking. Kristin was the one who got me into biking and took me on my first ride last year when I bought my old bike - a hybrid mongoose crossway 450. So I thought it only appropriate that she come with me again, and Val has been biking all summer on her new road bike and didn't want to miss out, so we made it an event starting promptly at 745 am at the lake.
However, I was so excited the night before the big event that I couldn't sleep. I eventually took 2 Benadryls around 2am. This meant I woke up abruptly at 730 when val called. I was 15 minutes late to my ride, much to val's dismay. I was feeling a little groggy still from the Benadryl, but I did well to not swerve too much or fall off my new bike. Not too far into the ride though, Val got a flat tire. I was of little help as I was still quite loopy and in a very silly mood. Val did help with some of the pumping up the new tire, but Kristin did most of the work while Val supervised and I took pictures.

so we did eventually make it all the way around the lake. can't wait to do it again :P