Lightweight Eats

Friday was an incredibly busy day! I started out my day with an early trip to the farmer's market. Although the market is scheduled to open at 8am, there are vendors there as early as 6 o'clock. My morning practice didn't start until 9:30 (more on that later..), so I headed over around 7:30 to make sure I got a fair shot at the best produce.



The haul included summer corn and stone fruit, and some walnuts.

Practice was an adventure. My bike has been broken (thanks to a shoddy repair job post flat tire, done by yours truly) for about a month and a half now, so I've been taking the subway to the boathouse. On my way to catch the train to our luxuriously late 9:30am practice, I managed to drop my subway pass.

The ensuing search caused me to miss my train. Whoops on being late to the one practice that is schedule for a reasonable hour of the morning. Perhaps there's a reason they're scheduled for 7am?

The practice itself was all on land. Our coach did lactate testing on us, which involved rowing machines and heart rate monitors and blood samples. How exciting. Although painful (both the rowing machine and the blood sampling), it definitely made me feel like a legit athlete!

Afterwards, I rushed off to meet my mom at the Berkeley Bowl. It's been almost two months since I've been, since my bike has been out of commission (again, more on that later). We were running out of all sorts of pumpkiny spices and were completely out of garlic! ACK!

The shortage is now solved.

And finally, in the early afternoon, I got a phone call from Tip Top Bike Shop--my favorite bike shop--that my bike was ready!! I dropped it off yesterday afternoon for a tune-up (aka them fixing my bike properly).

They showed me all of the things I had neglected to put back together properly and sent me on my merry way with a fully functioning bicycle. Riding home was absolutely incredible!

That was a bit of a ramble, but all-in-all a very, very exciting Friday.