Blogging, biking and a boob!

HOLY CRAP! I noticed I had a blog draft for DC vacation day #4 all ready about a week ago and all I needed to do was add pics! I had not realized this until I was reading another blog then looked to see when I last did my bloggie thing and it was a WEEK AGO! Sorry folks. I know the two of you that read this blog have been sitting on the edge of yours seat wonder what happened on my other days of vacation...NOT! haha!

Anyway I will do a total recap soon, but first some there business to take care of.

First off. The City of Sioux Falls seems to think that bikers, walkers, rollerbladers, hikers will not need an alternate route mapped out when the diversion ditch levy is raised from 41st to the zoo and not completed until 2010. WHAT? So all those people that use this stretch of the "greenway" which includes bike commuters, recreation bikers, joggers, rollerbladers or whatever will have to find their own way around this mess? This means pouring people out into streets that might have heavy traffic already and not warning said motor vehicle traffic to watch for pedal pedestrian traffic in these areas. Are they asking for injuries? Maybe? Most of us are safe riders on the road but when motor vehicle drivers are not used to seeing an increase in pedal / pedestrian traffic in areas it could get scary. There is a meeting about this March 25 from 5-6:30pm at the Oyate Community Center (by Garfield Elem School). Ride you bike to the meeting and show your support in getting an alternate route mapped out for this area during construction.

Second. This past weekend Cassie Soeffing and myself were lucky enough to get our first USA Cycling officiating gig. The Twin Bing road race in Climbing Hills, IA went off without a hitch. Cassie was at the finish line compiling numbers and times and I was in the commissionaire car with our officials class instructor following the Class B field watching for infractions and keeping track of riders. It was a great day on a VERY TOUGH HILLY course with 26 in the Class A field and 72 in the Class B field. The loop was 22 miles with the A's doing three laps and the B's doing two laps. Let's just say I was glad I was riding in the car and NOT riding a bike! It is fair to say we learned a lot and have a lot to learn! All in all it was good and we are both ready to do more. Even Cassie's husband got in the mix to help with writing down numbers at the finish line. Glen from our officials class was also there at the finish line so we had three green officials and two veteran officials but I think the green officials did ok. The road race was a success so look for it next year on the www.siouxcityvelo.com website!

Third. Before we went on vacation to DC, Kris had done the fun mammogram. The doctor called and said they needed to do a magnification of the an area. We could not get it done before we went to DC so it was done the day after we arrived home. The magnification determined that there was an area showing "not normal breast tissue" so a biopsy was ordered and done this past Friday. The biopsy was a needle core biopsy. It is a matter of numbing the area then inserting a bigger bore needle that can grab tissue samples. Five samples were taken and of course they would not know the results until Monday sometime. Well of course a person ALWAYS thinks the worst even though we were told there was no blood supply to this tissue that is needed for tumors to feed it. We were pretty sure it was scar tissue but you always have a bit of doubt in the back of your mind. I guess it is human nature. We talked about the what ifs and decided you know there is nothing we can do about it if it is cancer, so we would deal with whatever God had in store for us. I am happy to report it was all benign breast tissue! YEAH! All that worry for nothing?...NOPE! Just reaffirms as to the importance of yearly mammograms! If you have not had your baseline at age 35-40 ....GET IT DONE....if you have not had a yearly mammogram after the age of 40...GET IT DONE! This is a VERY SIMPLE test that can save your life! We all want to grow old together!