If you haven't noticed our awesome new fundraising thermometers, Kathryn and I have both hit the $1,000 mark. Much thanks to our family and friends! This means that we will soon be sent our bikes and that we can now bring our affordable housing awareness to the road. It will be my first time riding a modern road bike and Kathy's first time teaching me her ways, so in order to represent Bike & Build accordingly Kathy and I have a lot of training ahead of us.
Luckily Bike & Build helps us outline a training schedule. Starting this month and into April we will be starting by biking 10 miles about 3 times a week. Seeing as we don't have our bikes quite yet however we will be following our usual routine: eating and watching T.V. Just kidding. Kathy might not know this yet but we will be going to the gym 3 times a week as an attempt to make up for our lack of bikes. We usually try and go to the gym at least a few times a week but from now on it is set in stone and our work outs will be geared more towards biking (no pun intended). Our campus recreation center just got some new simulated spin bikes so we'll be sure to give them a go. If anyone has some good cross-training advice we'd love to hear it. Of course nothing is like the real thing so once our bikes are out of their boxes it's go time!
In May we are expected to try our first 65 mile ride and our average ride should be 20 miles. Hopefully by this time we will be gear masters and eating miles for breakfast. If not we better get crackin. We have to ride 500 miles total before June and my total (and I think Kathy's) so far is zero. This will soon change however, starting Monday our new routine begins!
Our schedule for this coming week (Kathy definitely doesn't know about this):
Monday: 3:45pm Tae kwon do (counts as gym)
Tuesday: 8:30am Gym- 30 min stationary bike, 30 min weights
Wednesday: Rest Day - (Kathy has no class so she can work out all day while I rest)
Thursday: 8:30am Gym - 40 min swim
Friday: Rest Day
Welcome to Kathryn's and Annamaria's Bike & Build blog! We will be posting our progress as we train for our bike across the country and work to raise $4,500 each for affordable housing!
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