I came, I saw, I conquered.

Today, I met up with 15 other team members for a one and a half hour bike ride. This wasn't a regular bike ride. It was a ride through a world which I am so close to, yet so far. Today, we met at Fraser Bike Shop to ride on the Wildflower bike course in California. This simulator would be so much like the real thing that a human being's muscles have a hard time telling the similated course from the real course.

I have never experienced being on a simulator, and was eager to see how I'd do. Despite the fact that I'm not going to race the Wildflower course now (a decision I made so as to not fry my legs before my half ironman race just a few weeks later), I wanted to see if I could do it. Especially Lynch Hill, the 7 mile incline that is so well known. (Scroll down for video on this hill.)

Out of the 16 triathletes on the course that night, I came in second to last place. I wasn't ashamed by that. I was proud that I made it up the hill without stopping. I never said I was fast, but I can definitely say that when I set my mind to do something,I have every intention of finishing it.

So today, I am proud to say that I conquered the Wildflower bike course and the infamous Lynch Hill. And I didn't even fry my legs.