Saturday Fun

Today the team went for a training ride through the rolling hills of somewhere. I never knew quite where I was until we were 20 minutes from our finishing point. It was a spirited ride with the usual intra team antagonism, both physical and verbal. Someone asked what we talk about when we ride, so today I tried to pay attention to the conversation. Ok now I know, but its top secret so I can't really divulge what I heard. Just kidding, actually most of the talk is just about bikes, equipment, and the usual acute analysis of other riders.

Today’s ride was a bit embarrassing for me. On the first town line sprint, I dropped by cell phone, on the second my chain came off (I was lucky to have survived), and on the third, my crescent wrench used to fix the previous problem came tumbling out. After that I found myself with few riders on my wheel. I did manage to do ok in the fourth sprint and dropped nothing. Note to self, zip up all pockets before riding.

It was a banner day though, for the 18th of December we were blessed with blue skies and a clear road. I will take that any day.
Mostly a zone 2 day with some pushing up some hills and a few sprints just to keep the blood moving through the legs. I got in just over 4 hours, which I felt good about.

My shoulders were sore in the last hour, not from the ride so much but from yanking dry wall off the day before and the muscles becoming suspect that they would be used to hang more of it today. Thankfully I am all done with the drywall. As my brother always says, there are two things people shouldn’t do, drywall and whatever we happened to be struggling through at the time. He is right, it’s a thankless job.