Its all relative

Today our scheduled workout was a 20 mile bike ride, 3 mile run, 20 mile bike ride, 3 mile run, 20 mile bike ride. So a 60 miler and a 6 mile run. I was excited to get in 60 miles on the bike - as I still haven't really done too many long bike rides, or any over our race distance.
However the weather gods did not look fondly upon our plans. We woke up to rain... And it kept raining all morning. We decided to split the workout into just two rounds, so we started off with a long bike ride.
At one point about 10 miles in, I was standing up going up a short hill when I started hearing a weird noise. I thought I had a flat, till I realized it was just the water in my shoe sloshing as I pushed down. Yuck!
We did hollywood hill as part of our ride. Through my first 3 seasons of team in training, hollywood hill was this big giant thing that only the strong fast people would do - the people who finished 30 minutes ahead of us would add it in for a challenge. This was the first time I actually tried it - and its not so bad! It was funny finally riding up it, after hearing so much about it. I'd say it was easier than winery (whine-ry) hill. We finished the bike ride - it was about 25 miles long.
We were soaking wet, every part of us, and covered in mud.
Luckily I had clean/dry socks in my car. We headed out on a run, and ended up doing almost 8 miles. We got back and all wimped out on going biking again - everyone but Crazy Karen. I was considering doing one more bike ride, but it started raining hard again, and I decided to just go out the next day.
When I got home my socks and bike shoes where still SOAKING wet, even though I'd taken them off two hours ago. Booo weather!

What I found most amusing about the day - was that we all went home feeling like wimps. Because we'd done so much shorter than was planned, and where scared off by the weather. But I mean... Since when is a 25 mile bike ride and an 8 mile run wimpy?? Last year I would never have thought that was wimpy...