STOLEN BIKE = BAD KARMA FOR EVIL THIEVES!

My bike was stolen.

Needless to say, this sucks. BIG TIME sucks!

I woke up early Sunday morning for my longest ride yet, and when I opened the door to my porch balcony, it was gone. I had planned to ride 25 miles down to Promontory Point, had been a good girl and didn't go out the night before, but what I had failed to realize was that someone had actually scaled my balcony and stolen my bike off the porch two nights earlier. I just hadn't realized it til Sunday morning. Oh, sweet, sweet, mountain bike that I had converted into something ride-able, farewell. I had this bike in Chicago for 6 years. And the first time I actually needed it for something important and upgraded its gear, someone decided to case my joint and steal my bike. 

DAMN HUMANITY!

I have one word for the thieves: KARMA.

They may have pocketed a few dollars selling my bike parts (and my new helmet) but they will forever have bad karma.

Luckily, I have a few amazing friends who have offered to let me train on their hybrid and or road bikes, and one friend even offered her bike up for race day. I also have a few random triathletes I've never even met before from the Chicago Tri Club online forum, who have offered their assistance and their bikes for me for that weekend!

There are some good people out there. I'll figure it out and I will not let evil bike thieves ruin my race or my training.

OTHER UPDATES:

1. Did my first open water clinic. I failed to consider that: YOU CAN'T SEE SHIT IN LAKE MICHIGAN.

I was able to use a wet suit from Element Sport and test it out. Well, damn, swimming in a wet suit in open water with many other people all going toward the same buoy and hitting and elbowing each other by accident AND the current make your technique disappear faster than a jar of Nutella sitting in my cupboard.

I will need to work on this.

2. Right knee remains super busted. I'm pretty sure I have an effusion and I'm icing it and wearing a compression sleeve. This stinks. Say bye bye to running for awhile.

3. Lymph node is swollen since yesterday. Please please please Health Gods, please fight off whatever is bubbling and brewing in my body. I cannot deal with another flare like in May. I won't. Not when my knee and my bike and my family are going crazy. I should have known that stress would eventually cause another flare, but I am saying NO. knock  it off.

4. Accepted a role with Lifeline Theatre Company that starts rehearsals in December! Understudying two tracks! Yay theatre!

5. Fibro pain remains in check. Sleeping has been okay, so less pain. Slight nerve issues, slight costo issues, slight fog, but nothing major.

OKAY. So, figuring out this bike thing. Right. To buy a hybrid or borrow? To buy a road bike or borrow? 

Updates will come shortly.

Love,

K.xx