I feel free again!!

So I busted out my road bike today and it was awesome!!!....I had thought that it was going to be really tuff and it ended up being really good. I hadn't been on my bike since last year in Sept, so that was a nice surprise :) The sun was shining and the birds were tweeting and there was hardly any wind, as I was driving home from a clients house I saw other people out on their bike and I thought, " I'm going to go out too!" So I got hubby to help me pump up my bike and I hopped on and set out!...... My want was to go North where it is nice and quite on the side roads around the farm area. To get there I had to go up a few main streets, but they had bike lanes on them which I really like cause then the cars need to respect my space. At one point I was at a stop light and I had cars on both sides of me....I knew that the people in the cars where looking at me...cause that's what I do when I'm in the car and a biker pulls up beside me! LOL!...So as I'm standing there and my heart is beating from the hill I just did and from the nerves of people watching I keep saying to myself, "Stand your ground Gail, stand your ground".....it was cool that I didn't have to say to myself to have confidence...cause I felt good and confident out there all by my little self biking in this big big world and tat felt very empowering :) As soon as I turned onto the side ride and the noise of the traffic stopped and the quite started I thought, "Ahhh here we go! Hello God!"....I really like the quite out there, when I run I LOVE to blast the tunes in my head, but when I bike I like to get out where it's quite......so this side road has some small and big hills which was good! First for a good workout and second so I can get back on track with using my gears. One thing I got reminded of is that as I go up a hill I am so focused on peddling that I forget to breath!! so when I get to the top I feel like my heart is going to explode!! (going to have to work on that!) As I turned around to head back I was coming up to my biggest and hill of the day....so I sank back in my seat, gripped my handlebars and thought, " Ok mother-fucker, lets do this!!!"...LOL!! I'm not kidding, I don't make this shit up! It was at that point I knew I was having fun and it felt SO great! So 22k and 1hr later I got home and just in time since my poor crotch-o-la, shoulders, neck and arms needed a break. My body will have to get use to the position of the road bike again. But I gotta say I felt fan-frigg'n-tastic afterwards and really look forward to getting out there again :) OH!!! and I also remembered that I have to put on sunscreen!!! With my back flat up to the sun for an hour...oh baby!! I am hot hot hot (and I don't mean in a sexy way!) and red as a tomato! :s . . . . . . . . . . . 'Live in YOUR Awesome!'