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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
my bike is wanted...
A local guy found my blog by searching for my bike on Google images. (Trek Mamba WSD). He commented asking me to email him so I could talk about the bike because he's planning to get one for his wife who is also short like me and he wanted to ask me how does it compare to the smaller wheels, etc. I emailed him and he congratulated me on my pregnancy (from reading my blog) and said with that in mind he would buy it from me if I wanted to sell. I thought about it bc I did pay over 900 for the bike which now I will probably not use to its full potential. When I bought it I was planning to train to do 6 hour endurance races. Now it will mostly be for mild joyrides. But I love the bike and I told him no thank you. I decided I earned it and I am going to keep it. He has emailed me 2 more times just to make sure. It's torture. I know I could get 800 minimum for it from him (I've only put about 70 miles on it) but then I will not have a bike (I already sold my old one) and we do plan to go riding with the baby. Families on the trails are the cutest thing and I can't wait to be one. I know I could do with a cheaper model and keep a couple hundred from the sale to buy the little one a tricycle. But I love my bike and don't want to downgrade just bc I'm KU. Stupid guilt. OK that's all. If you read this whole whiney post I'm sorry, I just had to vent/ I love my bike, it's badass.
Re: my bike is wanted...
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Keep it. You love it. Life as you know it doesn't end with children, though it might feel that way when you don't know what's coming, or even in the first couple of months of making this huge transition of life. Sure, there are some changes, but it's far from the end.
I know nothing about bikes, so I'm just going with what you're telling us, but do you really think you'll never EVER want to do the endurance races again? EVER? And you're just going to do the family rides? If you really want to do the endurance races or whatever, you will. And sooner than you think.
My silly Lily is almost 4.
Yes Ali he emailed me again last night to let me know that they are going to order it Thursday morning from their local bike shop, so in case I change my mind I have this long before it's too late. I am convinced now I will keep it but I have that dang nagging guilt. (Catholic school side effect maybe, whatever...) H is pretty adament that I keep it. I rarely splurge on myself and this bike is long paid for and we don't need the money. I mean, who couldn't use extra money, but we would just use it for something else that we don't really "need". At least this bike is something I really love. Thanks for making me feel better. Even Chelsea, because you do regret it even if just a little bit. I will use it again. Maybe even for a race. I could get a relay partner and we can each do 3 hours.
Race PRs {5K-23:55} {10K-48:54} {15K-1:24:30} {13.1-1:53:39} {26.2-4:30:43}