Took one day off both to rest and because it was my first day at the local community college, so just sick with worry and doubts. I'm only taking the one class so far, Business Mathematics before I take Introduction to Business. I had thought that my financial aid would have covered my textbook, which I was very wrong about and I would up shelling out $240 right there for the class's textbook just so I can attend the class. There was most definitely a better alternative, but I didn't plan ahead. First day we get right into it though... with a refresher apparently on how multiplication, division, and percentages work... $240 for a book where the first two or three chapters is middle school shit, I'm hoping the class gets a LOT harder and more challenging, otherwise I'll have to applaud the school for the goddamn excellent con artistry. There's some interesting stuff I'm not familiar with in the book's index, I just don't know if we'll be covering it all.
TODAY, I went out for another 15 mile ride. The wind is more intense than the other day, but fortunately it's aligned just right so I have the headwind all one way, but the tailwind all the way back. So I'm traveling miserably slow at a low gear for one half, and I speeding back in a much higher gear than I usually pedal at for the other half. As near the last mile, I have the headwind, and while I'd been taking it easy so far I go all out stand-up pedaling (or Dancing as the anime Yowamushi Pedal puts it) against the wind, and it's extremely hard and exhausting with the heavy wind today. I make it though without switching to the low gear I'd been using for the whole run, and I feel proud of that cause the wind had been kicking my ass for that entire 15 miles. I can't wait until I'm fit enough for this to feel easy.
Odometer reading: 90 miles total.
Also I'd been trying to do stretches to limber up my muscles before every ride, but my lazy sedentary life has made my muscles so extremely stiff and stubborn. I'm trying to do some from videos I'm seeing on youtube specifically for the legs, and every part of me is just so tight and not willing to negotiate on that tightness. It's very uncomfortable and difficult, even just doing half the stretch makes my leg muscles feel like they're maxed out and will snap if I push them any harder. Once again, it feels like a dream that I could ever be fit enough for this to feel easy, like the instructors on the videos make it seem, but I'll keep doing it for that to become true.