I have done an awful lot of rides since I last wrote. I have been busy, what can I say? Mind you busy riding, rather than writing about them, not such a bad thing. Anyway Sunday April 10, it was supposed to rain, then it was supposed to rain in the afternoon. So I went out for a morning ride with the BCC. One of the guys in the club flatted and a few of us stuck around while the rest of the club continued on. As it turned out, I was probably the weakest of the bunch who stayed to help with the tyre repair. It's not every mechanical I get to say, it was great, we screamed up Warden at about 40km/h. Then Jeff Norman, who must know roads in Toronto better than most people know the back of their hands, took us on a lovely little underpass to the Don Valley Parkway, we wound up meeting up with the main body of the group only a few kilometers from the site of the mechanical.
The club ride continued north and sure enough, when at about 40km from home it started raining. By the time I got home everything was soaking wet. Naturally in the afternoon it was warm, bright and sunny. So I spent much of the following week cleaning Jordan. That said, by Thursday night I had ridden over 500km since April 1. The season may just be starting, but things are ramping up pretty quickly now.
Here is a new rule, no looking at bicycling related websites, I drool, it is not healthy. And parking my ride at my desk at the office, not much better frankly! I keep turning and admiring. Sure she's pretty and all, but I don't see her enough on the uber long 300km rides? Well I only see her top tube bars and front wheel tyre and spokes. But apparently I don't see enough, because when at the office I keep turning and looking at my ride like she was a work of art. Then again, look at the bike or look out the window at a suburban wasteland, difficult decision.
