One week more to go...

I rode 20 miles today on my bicycle. The Maine MS event is about a week away: http://main.nationalmssociety.org/site/TR/Bike/MAMBikeEvents?pg=entry&fr_id=17754 I'm beginning to understand some aspects of competition... Last week I happened to be riding home and met another bicyclist at a stop light. Nice person - had a slick looking bicycle... The light changed and well... I couldn't help myself. I just zoomed down the road quicker than ever before - like way faster... I kept up a blistering pace (for me) of about 21 miles an hour... Which is peddling pretty quick... Usually I do about 17 miles per hour there. That day - zoom - just had to go extra fast. I'm glad it was only a couple miles... At the end I turned off to another street and the other bicyclist went straight. I clearly wasn't thinking straight at all... Heart rate went way up to like 170 beats per minute and I was breathing hard... Felt like I was about to go pop at the corner... But I made it there ahead of the other bicycle.