The Feel Of Wet Leaves
Wanna know how my ride was today? I'm sure you said "no", but this is my blog, and you did come here, so you most likely expect SOMETHING of bike stuff (not to be confused with "butt stuff", but on this blog you never really know).
OK, I'll tell you how my ride was... If you were to go out in your yard, rake up big pile of leaves and let 3 or 4 months of fall and winter rain and snow fall on them. Then return to your yard on a grey, 55 degree day in the early spring and dig to the bottom of said big ass pile of cold wet leaves to were the leaves are REALLY stanky, composting, and riddled with worms, etc., etc., THAT is about how both my ride and my legs felt like, looked like, tasted like. Yeah that's right, rides have a taste.
The legs felt like two fat sausages stuffed with lead and the weather sucked. BUT I was in the saddle and outside, and there is no place I'd rather be. OK, there's a couple other places I would have rather been, but this is an adult family blog, and I can't go into it here.The things you notice when you ride in the fall with the leafless trees, going slowly uphill on a road you normally come screaming down...
Noticed this old abandoned house for the first time today. I've ridden this road about 1,000 times in my life, but only twice in this direction and never at this time of year. I might spend Halloween night there. Then again, if don't start making more jing, I WILL be LIVING there. LOL!More signs of fall riding in Urban Redneck Country...
No better place to dump that old TV you need to get rid of than the back roads of Western PA... Someone did "Kill Their Television." I just wish they didn't feel the need to do it along the road.
Then we have this poor little ass...
As you can tell from my attitude, today's ride was not all that great, but I'm sure riding 3 of the past 4 days on the road, getting 8+ hours in, using a knobby tired mountain bike and cutting my calorie intake pretty dramatically had SOMETHING to do with it. I'll take it though.Time to make some grub. Mmmm... Veggie Crumble Bean Burritos with a big pint of something not at all beer.
Later.
posted by Jason @ 4:39 PM
4 comments
4 Comments:
Wow. It was 55 over there? Lucky you! I feel like we live in Portland or something with all of the rain we have had.
13 weeks until Snotcycle! (well, about 13 weeks anyway).
Seriously, it was colder over there? Freaky. But fine by me!;)
40's and dreary here today.
What no roadside panties? Worlds worst bike ride taste: “Vadge” day of 180% humitidy w/ambient temps of 95 degrees and all you can smell is the steaming cowpiles in the field of Leesburg, or is that your upper lip? Maybe it’s the crusty salt stains on your shirt? Hell either way it’s another day on the bike!
Peace,
Metro
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