40 years and 40miles...

It was a great weekend! Filled with pizza, beer (for Matt...not me), birthday celebrating, biking, swimming, chocolate cake & friends. Doesn't get much better than that.

Friday was Matt's 40th birthday. (I'm still in disbelief that many of us are turning 40 this year....ugh.) To celebrate, we headed downtown to Somerville for the cruise-in and met up with Tiffany & Jimmy. The weather was cool, so it was a beautiful evening to walk around, check out the fun cars & shoot the breeze. We ended up at Alfonso's for a last drink with them while we waited for our friend Todd (Matt's running partner) for birthday pizza & beer.

Saturday morning was IntenSati at 8:00 with Tiffany. This is one of the best hours of my week. I love it. This month's series is focusing on believing. Check out Tiffany's blog to read more about it and get inspired. This is the time that I get my mental adjustment for the week while at the same time getting an awesome butt kicking. Good stuff in my opinion. I arrived home to find Matt taking a nap after his early am run. I guess that's what happens at 40. ;-) So after some relaxing and a snack, we headed out on the bikes. We were aiming to ride 40miles (for 40 years). It was a humid day, we probably could have use another water bottle each, but it was a great day for riding. We took it pretty easy, but did get a decent climb up Bissell Hill. In total we got in 38miles. (oh so close!) We were tired, hot and hungry. So we headed home to grill up some steaks, shrimp & salads. yum!

Today we rode the Round Valley loop to get in another 16+miles. Then drove to the pool for a short recovery swim. I think it's the first time we have been in our pool in 2 weeks! After swimming, we went to Wegman's to get sushi and somehow ended up going home with a mini Ultimate Chocolate Cake. Hhmmm.....???? How did that happen??? It's still Matt's birthday weekend, so it's all good.... really good. mmm....