Are you walking a cat??

Some days on RAGBRAI are a real bust. The pass through towns don’t have fun activities, the food in just ok, and there aren’t many fun photo moments. It doesn’t happen often but it does happen. Well let’s call this one of those days. Today was not all that exciting. This picture of Gabby sums up her day today!  #boredom

I got up this morning and rode my bike, but I did it on my trainer because I’m doing a block of training right now working on bike power. So that meant a quick inside ride before another day in the Zoom colloquium. 

I’m going to be honest I was struggling this morning to think of spending another 8 hours on zoom, but I rallied and made it through. Today we talked a lot about Quality Improvement in terms of faculty development, diversity, equity & inclusion, programmatic assessment, and clinical education improvement. There were some great ideas and discussion. Another good day of learning...but another 8 hours of screen time!  

The biggest excitement of the day was around 4 o’clock when we had a major weather shift. This happened to coincide with a short break from Zoom so I quickly got Gabby outside for some business....and yes she went right in front of the tent again. Ugh The sky got real dark and the wind kicked up. As I was trying to make sure the tent was secure, Gabby was trying to bust down the door to get in the tent. I guess she thinks it is a safe space. I told her we’d be safer in the house so see she sprinted to the door. At first I thought the rain would miss us, but then it let loose. Monsoon rain with lots of wind. My poor tent was getting a workout, but it thankfully stayed put!  I’m not sure how dry it is inside though. :(

About an hour later the sun was out in full force!  After the colloquium ended Gabby and I went to check see how wet our beds were...not a drop of water in the tent!!!  #winning That little tent is small but mighty! Since there was a chance of more rain coming soon I decided to get in a quick run. Gabby stayed home to guard camp and I headed out. I had to dodge lots of puddles and down tree branches. 

You know how I said some days just don’t have anything to report on...well I thought that was going to be the case today. Until I was about halfway through my run!  I was a ways from this women walking her dog, a beautiful golden retriever, but she kept turning back and talking to something. I thought she was talking to her dog which seemed kind of weird, but not that out of the ordinary. As I got closer I realized there was also a cat. She was talking to her cat telling it to come. Now this cat wasn’t on a leash...the dog was...but the cat was just following along after them. Now you rarely see someone walking a cat period, but I’ve never seen someone walking their cat without a leash. So as I ran by I asked, “Have you trained your cat to walk with you?”  She replies, “yeah....I know it’s kind of weird, but yeah.”  To which I replied, “I think that is impressive!”  Unfortunately no cat picture since I don’t have my phone when I run. You’ll just have to trust me on this one. 

Leftovers for dinner tonight and no pie today. Maybe tomorrow I’ll rectify the pie situation since I don’t have a day of zooming. I’ll try to make tomorrow more interesting!