Bike racing is all about the suffering. It's easy to forget that in the off-season. But last night's workout was a total suffer-fest. It's never fun when your legs hurt going in. It takes about an hour for the pain to ease off. I had two hours of endurance last night and instead of counting down the minutes -- daunting when you still have 106 minutes to go -- I counted songs on my iPod. Every fifth song, I'd crank the resistance and stand on the pedals. Five songs is generally 15-20 minutes, so I'm focusing on much smaller blocks of time. And irregular blocks, determined by the length of the songs that come up at random. I didn't start counting down until 24 minutes to go -- the home stretch!

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I have SO MUCH to do before leaving for camp on Saturday morning. I haven't even started packing. I'm not sure how I'm going to fit in two hours of training today AND all the stuff I need to do to get ready. And we're having a baby shower here at work on Friday and I haven't gotten a gift yet. Blarg.