New PR for Mark

Posted by Mark

Because of the unfortunate course of events that happened to me a few days ago (for the scoop, see family blog about the ban on pokey things skillpeople.blogspot.com) I have not worked out this week until yesterday (Thursday) because my foot hurt. Today, feeling pretty good and wanting to take advantage of the last few days of nice weather I decided to ride my bike to Callahans. And since its been a week since I've ridden I was expecting a lack luster climb. When I first got on my bike, it was still in high gear from the downhill ride the week before and I decided to leave it in gear just to see how far I could go back up the hill. To my surprise, I felt pretty strong and made it almost a full mile before I had to downshift to a lower gear. This gave me a pretty good boost so I decided to stay with it and give it all I had all the way up. Well guess what? I set a new personal record!  Check this out...36 minutes and 36 seconds to the top! Can you believe it? I can't hardly drive it in a car in that time. It felt great! I was very tired but now have a huge since of satisfaction for the breakthrough and will undoubtedbly sleep well tonight.