The Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles

Today was a not so fun day. Andrew and I have officially moved to Ohio. That means that today, we have to get our new licenses and change over our car registration. Long story short: wow. We got to the first place, waited in line (no take a number and sit down at THIS place). Oops, nope. You have to go next door. OK. Next door, wait in line and then go back to where we were to get our pictures taken and our new ID’s. Yay. I am an Ohio resident... (State Championships 2008, here I come!). So then, we have to change over our Title on our cars to get the new registration. Never heard of that before and certainly did not have to do that in Illinois- but c’est la vie. But, to do that, we had to drive cross town to another place. No line. Woopie! Then back to the original place, but first, we had to get a smog check on our Volvo. Apparently, after waiting to get the test, we found out that our gas cap was bad. Drive cross town again to get to a car parts store and then back to the smog place. In the 20 minutes that it took us to get the new gas cap, the entire city of Cleveland had decided to get their smog checked too. We sat in 100* heat waiting to get them to say that our new gas cap was fine. Yup. Fine. BACK to the original place and wait in line again before we finally get our new license plates. YAY. What a fun day?

The reason why I have that picture though is that on the written test- it was a question... what does the sign mean? Does it mean A) an intersection is ahead B) someone recently died at that place C) the road curves to the left or D) a church is ahead. I found that rather amusing. Same with the question that asked what a pedestrian with a white cane means: A) the cane means nothing B) the person is deaf and cannot hear C) the person is blind or D) the person uses the cane to beat their way through crowds. I personally know what I would use the cane for!

After that long day, I went out to do the second part of my training. I had already ridden rollers in the morning with a cadence drill that Linda has me do. With the heat and how tired I was from my very hard ride yesterday: I was hurting today from the get go. Yesterday, I had three really hard intervals and it really took it out of me. All and all, 4 hours of good, hard training. I went to bed exhausted and could barely wake up this morning. Not a big shocker that I was dying out there today! I had to cut out a bunch of my intervals since I had dropped more that 10% of my power on the last couple. At some point, it becomes counter-productive to keep pushing. Today, I cut out so that I can go hard tomorrow. I was not getting what I needed out of my workout today. It sucks, but it is what it is. Tomorrow is a new day. I am excited to get out there and ride.