I am proud to have volunteered to help out with the Second Annual Rare Disease/CF Henry's Bike Shop Spin-a-thon. Essentially this is a fundraiser to benefit CF research done while riders spin on trainers/rollers in the parking lot of Henry's Bike Shop for 24 hours on Black Friday. I rode a couple of hours last year, and was excited to help out with the effort for 2014. Tuesday Night was the first meeting, and I sent a note to the Leader of the committee, Katrina, that I couldn't make it.
Tuesday didn't get off the start that I wanted it to, and as a result I didn't get my ride in before work. I raced out of the office after work and got my efforts in... As I was wrapping up and heading back to the car, I saw a guy in a Blackwater Bikes jersey. Black Water bikes as in West Virginia. The rider was stopped, and while I was still clearly in oxygen debt, I asked him if he was lost. "no, I'm good thanks for asking," he continued,"so you can't make the meeting tonight but you're out on a ride?" I was totally confused, and still in oxygen debt as Todd, who is also volunteering for the event and was going to the Tuesday's meeting smiled at me.
In oxygen debt, I muttered, "7:00 is kinda late for me, close to my bed time, I told my wife I'd help her with something tonight, I have an early day at the office tomorrow...:
Todd smiled and said, "I'm just busting you..I'm going to the meeting and will send you the notes for sure..."
I apologized and explained, "I'm sorry for being incoherent right now, I just finished some efforts, and I'm in oxygen debt... "
Todd smiled again and we talked about Black Water Bikes and West Virginia.
"I'm running late I gotta jet. I'll see you at the next meeting!" I said as I took off...
Truth be told, I promised Diane I'd go grocery shopping with her tonight. We ran out of pretty much everything last night, including TP, which had to be replenished today. I wish I could have put those thoughts together and that would have been much easier to explain than muttering out the oxygen debted spew that I did.
As I sped away, I came upon a woman who looked like she had fallen and hit her head. She had red- what I thought was blood streaming from the back of her ear, down her neck and then her chest. I locked up the brakes and asked her, "Ma'am are you okay!?" I startled the runner, as she was running with two ear buds and the cord was red. I quickly realized what I thought was blood was actually her ear phones running to her phone/MP3 player She gave me a funny look and continued running. I knew it was time to just get my tired butt home.
anyway, in hindsight both exchanges were pretty damn funny.I apologize to the runner with red head phones who I may have startled, and of course good on Todd for busting my chops.
thanks for reading.
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vanderbacon
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