Still ridin'

Wow, that was a long bike ride. Just got back now and am able to blog again. In the contest between blogging time and riding time you know who loses.

My new bike is fairer than ten thousand and we will find out tonight how fast she is because it's my first race. I've increased my racing a bit this year and plan on doing the Provincial road races as well as local club races, something that will put me to the test. The first Provincial race is a couple of weeks away and is a 3 stage race over two days, a real test for an old-timer. Old fossils normally get stuck in Category 5, the beginners category, where they are out of the way and won't get run over by all the young gearheads. But due to the fact that I have raced a bit I was put in Category 4 where the gearheads let old buzzards do all the work then spit them out the back of the pack when the race really starts, never to care about them again.

I do have a plan though. Quite a number of my team members ride in Cat 4, some of whom are young gearheads. Our coach also rides Cat 4. With a team in a race you can do a lot of things and everyone gets to play a part. I plan on being part of the exciting drama of team racing and making sure the young'uns get to the finish on time (i.e. 1st).

Ma said she was going to pick up the blogging slack but she's off greenhouse hopping today and once she gets her hands in the dirt look out - you won't hear from her except on rainy days.

We had a neat experience at Kinship last night, Kayle brought home a dvd of a church service and we listened to the worship segment with Suzy Wills. The Spirit hit our group very deeply and many of us made a course correction to get back in the flow of the Spirit. For me it was profound and deep and I realized that the Lord has always called me to follow the Spirit in our group, no matter what it looks like or what people think. When I lead in the Spirit there is life, when I lead on my own it's just another meeting.

We had a deep time of ministry over one another, laying hands on each other and saying only, "Come Holy Spirit". May everything I do be worship to Him.

Pa