Back to the basics, BICYCLING.

My daughter Melissa started running and is now training for a scheduled marathon wrote this to me in a Email today.

"I ran 10.5 today and am so calm it's fantastic."

Sums up this up quite succinctly I'd say.

Good day for a ride. 32 degrees, rode on snow mobile trails. Snow was a little soft, was maintaining 7-8 mph. Rode 20 miles out and turned around and headed back for another 20 miles. Temps started to drop, snow starting to change, ruts were now shoving my front tire around. I knew I should stop and let some air out of my front tire but was reluctant to stop. After a few close calls of my front tire starting to slide out on me when up against a rut, I stopped and changed from tire from 15 psi to 7 psi. I was amazed at how much better control I had with the air pressure change.
A wet snow started falling, I needed to keep my sun glasses on to keep the blowing snow from stinging my eyes, but the lenses were getting snow coated and it was getting hard to see.

I didn't see the rut right in front of me, I didn't have time to react, my front tire kicked sideways throwing the bike and me to the right. I bounced hard on my right shoulder and head. MrBill from Texas tells me I have to knock this off. This one hurt. My arm, neck, hand, and shoulder ached. I climbed back on the bike. I had 5 miles to go. I took my sunglasses off to see now. My neck stiffened up and I could not turn my head. Dang!!! Motrin do your thing, I got bicycling riding plans tomorrow.

The route for RAGBRAI has just been announced tonight. I wonder if Creepy Baby would like to do a ride across the state of Iowa this July? 

Tomorrow, I'll do a repeat of today. Cept for the bumpity bump.

RideON,

DAve.