This page was exported from Almost-Daily Diary [ http://www.chainreactionblogs.com/diary ] Export date:Thu May 2 17:31:00 2024 / +0000 GMT ___________________________________________________ Title: A bit cool, yes, but that didn't spoil our party! --------------------------------------------------- A bit hard to read, but the Garmin is reading 34.8 degrees! You sure wouldn't want to miss a morning like this just because it was cold though. 34.8 degrees, late March, aren't we just a bit past that sort of thing? The positive side is the lack of rain. We earned this dry spell! Quite a few of this this morning; I'll try the roll call thing- Kevin, Kevin, Eric, Karen, Marcus, Andrew, JR and yes, even George showed up! Haven't seen George since he became an age-category hot-shot in the bike racing scene. He's still young enough (about 60 I think?) that the age-category results still indicate someone really, really strong. At some point it gets a bit silly, like those who look forward to turning 75 so they can dominate the 75-80 group. It's been a very long time since I looked forward to getting older. I felt surprisingly good this morning, at least for the first half of the ride. Even kept up with the fastest guys up to Huddart Park, after which I lost their wheels and ended up in that "place in the middle" for a while. Younger Kevin caught up with me at the half-way point (I had naïve ideas that maybe I could keep up, an old man's fantasy I guess), and gradually everyone else caught up and passed me by the time I got to the top. That's OK; I felt pretty good and this was my 3rd time in a row under 30 minutes. From that point on, it was a surprisingly civilized ride, everyone in a good mood, lots of talking, nobody doing anything silly like going to the front and pushing the pace. I could use more rides like this!  --Mike-- --------------------------------------------------- Images: http://www.chainreactionblogs.com/diary/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/cold_wolh_032916.jpg --------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- Post date: 2016-03-30 00:34:05 Post date GMT: 2016-03-30 07:34:05 Post modified date: 2016-03-30 09:08:50 Post modified date GMT: 2016-03-30 16:08:50 ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Export of Post and Page as text file has been powered by [ Universal Post Manager ] plugin from www.gconverters.com