first snow!

Well I was sure excited to get up and see SNOW on the ground! Camille was a bit more hesitant as you can see, but she frolicked a bit once she discovered the joy of making tire tracks in the snow. :) This is her first snow ever, so she wasn't sure what to make of it at first. She was cold and happy to return to her spot in the garage with her buddy, the VW bug.

Happy December!

Laisha and Camille

first ride around lake sammamish

Today we rode all the way around Lake Sammamish for the first time. It's 26.5 miles or 43 kilometers. Not too far, but a good ride nonetheless. There were some nice views along the way, a few good hills and a bit of wildlife here and there. It was pretty cold though. My feet were frozen so we stopped at REI to get shoe covers and those helped a LOT! I hope to get another long ride in on Sunday, but the next few days are full of work! It's supposed to stay cold and wet it looks like...I wonder when we'll get snow!

For the both of us,
Laisha

first things first

It's time now to start thinking about communications for my trip and I've decided to post here on blogspot. :) Camille and I are really excited about the trip and thinking of all kinds of details and possibilities. We'll have to see how things go, but now that we have found each other, things can go forward. Camille is beautiful and I'm sure we'll be adding lots of her glamour shots to the page soon. :) She's fast and steady and oh, so light! It makes hill climbing much much easier!

Thanksgiving day was the four-month mark for our departure. That means that training is going to become much more intense over the remaining weeks. This first month is all about loooong slow rides to build up endurance. I'm not sure how to fit it in to my work schedule and where exactly we'll go, but we will definitely be doing many of these this month! Camille hates to go slowly, however, and I always find myself trying to catch up to the speed that she so obviously wants to run along at. Yesterday on our trip up to Redmond she took a whole 15 minutes off the usual hour to get up there. Wow! That's fast!

For both of us,
Laisha