I had grand plans to get up early yesterday and get my 30-mile bike ride in while it was still cool. I was up at 7:00 and ready to walk out the door a few minutes later, but I couldn’t find my garage door opener. With a sinking feeling, I realized that after having taken the opener I usually keep inside the apartment with me the night before, both of my garage door openers were now inside my car. Which was inside the garage.
Sigh.
After a halfhearted effort to lift the door myself (which was made difficult by the fact that I couldn’t get my fingers underneath it), I gave up. My only real option was to wait until the apartment complex office opened at noon, so I grumbled a bit and went back to bed.
By noon, of course, it was downright steamy outside. I might have gone riding then anyway, but I had a soccer game last night and riding in the noon heat would’ve killed me for the rest of the day. On top of that, Gilruth is closed on Sundays and my apartment gym doesn’t have a bike! Gah! In the end, Jose swooped to the rescue with a guest pass to 24 Hour Fitness, where I rode the stationary bike for an hour while watching, alternately, both the Astros game and the muscleheads working out.
Other than that my weekend pretty much went as planned! Fish Night at Becca’s on Friday, Houston Running Bloggers at Run The Woodlands on Saturday morning, and tickets to the Dynamo game on Saturday night! It was only my 3rd game of the year and it was nice to get back out there and see some quality soccer. The Dynamo beat cross-state rival FC Dallas as well, so that was awesome. Also cool was running in Erin, who hadn’t been able to make that morning’s race.
