HILDEBEAST'S Mentor Group, CLOSED! (Page 16)

So glad to hear all of the updates!! Melody, there must be some free speed up there on that mountain!!  Good to hear from Alex again, she kind of comes and goes, much like some type of tri-ghost!  Good to hear you've been diagnosed, but not good that you are anemic.  Get that fixed up girl! 

So we had roofers at our house today, and they will come back and finish on Monday, so fingers crossed it doesn't rain between now and then!!  The pounding was horrific so hubby and I got out of town.  Hubs has decided he wants a tri bike (to those of you who have not been privy to my husband's impulsivity, he bought a cheapie bike from REI years ago, rode it a couple of times, sold it for next to nothing.  Bought a 29er type bike for trail riding, I think he took it to the trails twice, it sits in the spare room.  Decided he wanted to do tris, bought a nice entry level Jamis tri bike and rode it about 2 blocks, freaked out that the steering was so twitchy, we ended up selling it at a loss.  Decided he really did want to bike ride, bought a really nice Felt carbon bike, rode it maybe 30 miles total, told me he "didn't like that kind of riding" and sold it for next to nothing.  Bought another road bike, this time a Trek, and he has put some miles on it, but has never liked it as much as he did the Felt.)  So now he wants to sell the Trek and get a tri bike, so we drove to Austin to visit the multitude of bike shops down there just to get a feel for prices and such.  Luckily (?) there was nothing in his size, so we didn't even get a test ride.  The one sales guy we talked to the longest really pushed him being on a road bike and adding aerobars... whatever.  In any case, since he wants to dump a bunch of $$$ into some kind of bike AGAIN, he was feeling like he should share the joy and pressured me to buy something, so I did!  Had to order my size, but it will be here in about a week!!  Giro Air Attack, the new and non-geeky aero helmet!!  They had matte black in my size, but I'm not into that, and decided white would probably be more visible out on the road and probably cooler than black.  Oh, also picked up a pair of arm coolers... they look exactly like arm warmers!  But have SPF50 on them, so any little bit to keep that melanoma at bay...  Now to order some Hildebeast decals for the new helmet!

Originally posted by arquillo

Originally posted by oldSAP @Hilde, i think your hubby needs an intervention!

No doubt! You are a good wife Hilde! BTW, what size does he ride? and do you ship to Ohio? .... just thinking ahead

X2 and do you ship to Ohio Alabama?

I'm home!!!!! Exhausted and I want my bike back!!

Hiked to the mountain summit (about 2 miles up) yesterday with a couple of college girls and ran all the way down (except where it was too treacherous) it was awesome and one of the highlights of my week.

GLAD to be home!!!!

He rides a 56 or 58, probably too tall for y'all... and for right now he's settled on keeping the road bike and he put aerobars on it.  I've encouraged him to go get it fit since all they did was a pretty basic fit at the store.  We'll see where it goes, ha ha!  He DOES need an intervention!!!  I won't even go into the GOLF CLUBS saga, pretty much the same deal but WORSE!

Janette!!! OMG!!!! Ouch!  

Well, that totally sucks!

BUT!!!!!! It is just one season- and there WILL BE more, many more. So increase your core strength & do other proactive things and KNOW that you WILL get back with it next year.

One of the girls (she is very athletic) I hiked to the summit with said she was on a really strong antibiotic for cellulitis, that it was pretty serious.

Take care of yourself!!!

I am so sorry!!!!

Oh man Janette, you can't catch a break this summer!!!  Cellulitis IS serious, I had it after I was done with chemo for breast cancer, appeared out of the blue, no wound like you have... 4 days in the hospital with IV antibiotics.  I know that has to be painful, any wound that "weeps" may not look to be too bad, but they are PAINFUL... And 4 weeks off does put a serious dent in your race plans... I'm thinking you could still do something late season.  And I totally get the falling in the dark while running... haven't done it in awhile, but last year I tripped over a raised seam in the road that I obviously didn't see and face planted into the road, saw stars!  I think it's even scarier when you are alone in the dark, even if you are close to home... and of course a little grateful that no one saw you!!  Feel better, it WILL get better....

So new news on the hubby bike saga... he was pretty much set on keeping his roadie and putting aerobars on it, he wanted the kind with the pads that spring up and out of the way.  But I told him I had found a bike store we didn't know about up in Waco (about 45 minutes north of us) that carried Felt and Cannondale.  So we drove up there and sure enough they also had Giant and Cervelo, some really nice bikes, all priced at MSRP.  I was pushing him towards the Felt B16 or S32 (since he is notorious for starting something and then letting it go 2 weeks later).  They had a 2012 B12 on sale, only too small for him (and too big for me   ), so he was leaning towards the B16, which is kinda ugly this year, matte black with some white.  BUT, they had size 56 and 58 in stock, just not put together, so we left and they said they'd call when they had them ready for him to try out.  So we went and had some lunch and headed home.  He was determined to find another 2012 B12 in his size somewhere, and he did, in Connecticut only to find that dealers cannot ship Felt bikes, you gotta buy them from the store, so back to square one.  In the meantime I was searching and found that Austin Tricyclist (which we had visited last Saturday) had a 2012 Cervelo P2 marked down in a tri package, so he called and found out they would sell him the bike for $2250 , last year's MSRP was $2800.  By this time it was 4 pm. so we jumped in the car and drove over an hour down there and came home with it... I'm a little pissed that he has a better bike than me!  And has never even DONE a tri... it IS a gorgeous bike, I gotta say.... he is one happy camper, we'll see how he feels once he gets on it and finds out that, noooo, it doesn't go by itself, you still gotta pedal!  In any case, I scored some badly needed new bike shoes (that unfortunately have BLUE accents on them, they don't match the bike!!!!!) and got 15% off. 

X2 Very nice!!!

Wishing it was not taking me ANOTHER week to get back in the swing of things!!!  Looks like it will be Saturday before I get my bike back...

So this is why the bike "saga" frustrates me.... Hubs came home for lunch and since I had cut my morning ride short, I thought it would be perfect to pick up some extra mileage by asking him if he was going to ride when he got off work, which he said he was.  So I asked did he want to do a short one or did he want to do it by himself (perfectly understandable when you're getting used to a new bike and want to experiment with stuff) and he said yes, he was going by himself.  No problem... then he asked how far I was talking about, I told him 13 miles and told him the route which he is familiar with and he said okay, around 6.  So I'm dressed and ready to go by the time he gets home, I had made sure his aero water bottle was set up for him and waited for him to get changed and ready to go.  We get out in the driveway, and for some reason he can't get his first foot clipped into the pedal, now the pedals, shoes and cleats are NOT new, he's had them for awhile, Speedplays.  So he gets frustrated because he knows he looks like an idiot and tells me, "Just go."  And after almost 30 years of marriage I know not to even say anything so I took off and did a very nice 13 miles that felt damned good considering it was 98 degrees out there!  Come home, put up my stuff, log my ride on BT and sit down in the living room to watch the premeir of Big Brother, my summer trash TV fave.  And he says, "Do you have the receipt to the bike, I'm taking it back."  WTF, WTF, WTF????  He just cannot handle the whole cockpit part of the bike, doesn't like that the brakes are in a different place than the shifters, the handling is twitchy, same ol' blah blah blah as the last time he HAD to have a tri bike.  I will say, that he is nursing a pretty wrecked up shoulder, should probably be having surgery but he is trying to avoid that, so the weight on the aerobars was painful for him.  I get that part... of course the tri store is not happy with him wanting to bring back the clearance bike they finally sold, but said they would.  Then comes the brilliant idea, "What if I put a road bike handlebar and shifters on it?  I really like the bike?"  I told him people do it, not sure they do it with a freaking Cervelo, but they do it.... so we're going to talk to the LBS today to see if they can switch out the tri cockpit for a roadie set up and then give ME the SWEET carbon 3T cockpit (that's a win for me for sure!).  Either way it's gonna end up costing more than if he had just gotten a really nice road bike in the first place.... All this and he hasn't even done a race yet! 

Aren't I the most patient and sweet wife EVER????