Finally!

Finally i managed to get on the the road this a.m. as best as i can recollect, it's been 3.5 weeks, WEEKS!, since i've been on a bike. i would say half that time or more, 2 weeks, i was flat out unable to ride due to ear infections and the stomach flu. also in there was Xmas and my grandmother's passing. the other week or so was, for lack of anything else, laziness and lack of inertia. yesterday i got out for an a.m walk in the barrio, about an hour. i was going to ride in the p.m., but the time ended up being taken with family pictures AND sitting around watching StarWars3 with the boys instead of riding.

this a.m. seemed pretty warm at 41 with some sun peeking out. once out on the road, the one disadvantage i found was the blustery winds- Wave3 says 15mph. it seemed one of those rides when 75% on the ride is somehow in the headwind. i intentionally didn't ride too hard, mostly b/c of a total lack of fitness. i meandered through the neighborhood, SenecaGds, the parks, St.Matthews, the parks, and 'wynded' my way home up Spring and across SenecaGds again. i looked for flat ground, only climbing one decent hill at the golfcourse in Cherokee. as ever, i had another interesting experience on golfcourse/dog hill. there was a rather fit young lady jogging up the hill. i realized that, if i didn't push it some, she was going to run up the hill faster than i could ride it. Oh i hate being fat and outofshape. i was pretty tired by the top, but nonetheless beat her. Humiliation in the abstract. a second, and funnier situation was one i observed at Seneca golfcourse. i was going towards big rock, when to my right, i noticed a lonely golf pull cart rolling down the hill sans golfer. he was up the hill just watching. finally, i think a fear gene kicked in b/c he started running down the hill chasing the cart when it became possible that the cart was going to roll all the way down the hill into the road. a good chuckle, make better by the fact that several folks were around to watch. good slice o' life.

today i rode the Surly Crosscheck with the Mavic Open rims from the Litespeed, so i don't know my mileage, but i can't imagine averaging more than 13.5 or so. slow and steady wins the race?

90 minutes/41 and windy/Crosscheck

Finally!

p.s. spoke with peterwhite the other day. apparently my box had been laying around waiting to be dealt with. he was very kind and we made the appropriate switches. that should be here mid-next week. and Clarksville should have my levers start of next week, so the LHT commuter special should be approaching Forward progress soon.