A Muddy Road Ride

Rained all a.m. and it seemed as if there would be no ride tonight, but when I took a look at the Weather.com radar (the new radar is freaking BOSS by the way) it looked promising, so a lunch time bike fetch was in order. Right on!

Temps were in the 60s and that meant another ride in shorts. Oh yeah! Gonna be short lived, but I'll take what I can get, when I can get it. (sounds strangely like my sex life- ha!).

I started the ride from down at the Boston Rail Trail parking lot. Hard to believe that I start from a trail head parking lot to a flat ass rail trail and choose to IMMEDIATELY start up a hemorrhoid inducing hill. Going up Rt. 48 is easier, but busier. This road sees less traffic, but damn some warm up would be nice.

Once I removed the bloody, mucus covered lung from my throat, I settled in to a nice rhythm and enjoyed the ride.

Had to move with some tempo due to the fact that although the time has changed, it still gets dark by 7:30. I also knew they were doing some construction on one of the roads I normally ride, so I would need to be creative with shortening the loop and avoiding the closed road.

Road Rule 11 Section 1- an unknown alternate route/getting lost will ALWAYS lead you uphill. The added unwritten "bonus suck rule" is that many times the way down is worse. STEEP, pot holes, mud, gravel, dips, rocks, construction vehicle ooze, etc., It was like Roubaix cobbles going down hill. Shit, I had less obstacles during my ride in the woods yesterday. But hey, I got to work on the skills.

This uphill/down hill suck road, had now put me behind schedule. I needed to giddy up and get back to the Soob without becoming road kill.

Got it done, with my overall average HR keeping me in Zone 4 for the 2nd day in a row. 1:40/about 30 miles and some big hills. Me thinks I need some easy spinning tomorrow.

Later.