If you or someone that you know fits that description, please let me know. I hope this will make us better teachers and our students better citizens and our country less divided and polarized.
Your "rainy" bike ride sounded like fun. How fortunate to have a campus to ride through and to be able explore new trails. Cool that you identified with the stallion's "need' for taming. Sad that it was a stallion that rebelled; do you think mares did? Wink.
I'm mostly recovered from my bug. Between travel and the bug I was under my goal 8 times in the last 3 weeks. This week? I've got it. Today 30 minutes walk, 45 yoga, and 10.8 on the bike. Plus a few hours of lawn work.
We were showered upon, too, on our bike ride. Not the worst drenching we've ever had, but enough to scurry out of the a/c grocery store on our way home.
Keep moving. Keep posting. I love seeing our ERC title when I check the site.
Saturday, we practiced hill climbing in the training group. We had a big group again. Today I "lead" two others who showed up for the leisure ride on a much cooler but overcast morning. It started raining right after we did 9 miles, so my one cycle buddy got off near her place. Soon after the rain stopped and it was such a nice temp, the two of us left decided to add some more miles and explore some of the newer bike trails to see where they lead. That was fun as they wound through the college golf course and past the athletic fields. We ran into a couple dead ends as they are still working on a lot of roads on campus. It's going to be great when all that is done which I am thinking this summer. They are changing the campus from a car campus to pedestrian and cyclist friendly campus. What they have done so far is wonderful for cyclists. Of course, if I had a couple billion dollars to spend on this plan going on, I would do the same thing. lol
The rest of the week should be non eventful. We are starting road riding on Saturday with faster speed and longer miles. I am excited.
I started reading Black Stallion to the 8 year old last night. Oh, I loved those Farley books as a young girl. I know I read every horse book on the shelf at our library during those years. I think I know why I liked the stallion books reading from an older woman. I could relate to the feeling of a wild horse being "tamed" to fit into society. That's what the process is for little girls - being tamed to fit in with all the "rules of society". How's that for insight? lol