Charmaine talked me into riding our bikes and watching a couple episodes of The West Wing Friday night. I’m hoping that I’ll start getting used to being in the saddle, but so far I don’t last more than about 40 minutes before I’m pretty uncomfortable. We ended up finishing the first episode and got about 5 minutes into the next episode before I couldn’t take it any more. I think that means we rode about 50 minutes, which is pretty good for me. Other than the 25 mile ride in last year’s Spudman Triathlon, I don’t think I’ve been on my bike this long.

Saturday Charmaine jumped back on the trainer again. I was in no condition to hurt myself again, so I felt a bit bad about letting her ride on her own. She didn’t want me to feel bad about it, so she said she would be pretty quick. More than 2 hours later she was still riding. I think it’s pretty obvious that I’m holding her back on this training thing. Hopefully I’ll start to catch up one of these weeks.