Woke up at 5:30am. Checked the weather on my PDA… 27 and sunny. Ugh. If I didn’t ride now, I might not until Sunday, so I faught the aches and climbed out of bed. On the road by 6:12 after layering up with two sets of tights, an undershirt, two long sleeve jerseys, jacket, gloves [...]
This game day happened at Lisa’s for the first time. She was a very good host with plenty of gaming snacks and drinks. The day outside (outside, what’s outside? Nothing beyond the game table exists on a game day) was reassuringly dreary and drizzly.
In attendance were Lisa, Andrew, AJ and myself. We started at noon [...]
Due to a fortuitous series of events I got Friday, my birthday, off from work. I took the opportunity to attempt my first solo century ride.
It went exceedingly well. South Shore Road on Sacandaga Lake was on my agenda–it was paved this past fall and I have yet to try it out since. I was [...]