The first REAL adventure

After a solid swim Tuesday morning, we set out on our first road ride in the hills of Thousand Oaks. It was really fun exploring the different terrain and although we didn't have a clue where we were going and it was pouring rain, we found some great roads to spend the following days on!
We later went to the K-Swiss headquarters to meet up with Ben and chat with all the fun people who work there. Then it was off to dinner at a nice little Italian place in town with Ben, his super fun girlfriend MP and a few others. Good times and lots of good laughs!

Yesterday was the beginning of some real training. I hit the pool in the early AM then we took off on an epic road ride. It began with a fun decent to the ocean where we rode along the Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) for quite some time.

Then we took a sharp right and started climbing this super steep, windy and beautiful road that was absolutely amazing.

The views at the top were gorgeous! We were both amazed that we had never heard of these routes before and can't wait to come back :)

Allen eats a lot of bagels. I will admit...the ones we got from Trader Joe's are pretty darn good!

Yes, we're big dorks! At least we're cute dorks :)

After this decent, we went to K-Swiss to meet up with the boys for a lunch ride. Unfortunately they got stuck in a meeting so we went back out for what we thought was a short loop back home. Our thoughts were very wrong and we ended up getting quite lost. I was already pretty smashed before we set back out, but after another 90min of going up and down the same roads looking for a way home, I completely cracked. We finally decided to just retrace our initial route but knew it would take a lot longer. On the way back I bonked harder than I have ever before and almost didn't make it to the nearest place with food. Thank goodness for gas stations, coke and junk food because I honestly would never have made it home. Big thanks to Allen for dealing with me and all the other fun things that come with hitting the wall like I did. After scarfing my face, we made the 45min trek back to the house where I immediately refueled (again) then got into bed just in time to get up, eat dinner, watch the Tour of California recap, sit in the massage chair, then fall asleep again! What a day!