The new year brought an unwelcome layer of snow which was covered over with a healthy layer of ice, so I had to miss out on a New Year’s Day ride this year. Jan. 2nd brought warmer temps and a lot more pavement showing, so I threw some foot warmers in the shoes, put on six layers of clothing, including the new Scott’s Jersey, and headed out in search of enough pavement to put in a century.
The traffic cams had shown more snow to the west, so I headed down to Walla Walla, where I met Sammi for lunch. After a much longer than usual break, we decided to head further out and do some sightseeing. We had heard about a small choclate store in Milton-Freewater, so off we went. Wasn’t too hard to find, and yes, they have some of the most amazing chocolate truffles. Not great bike riding food, but I have been enjoying them the last few evenings.
From there Pendleton didn’t look too far away, so I sent Sammi in search of antique stores and continued my ride. At this point I was starting to really feel the last month’s worth of indoor riding – seemed like a long 30 miles, and by the time I got down to Pendleton, a burger and a beer sounded a lot better than another 70 miles to get home.
So I backed up the brewpub move with a ride on Sunday. Probably THE hardest ride I’ve done this year. Long, long slog northward into a mild headwind, frost on the road, fog, no sun. I finally reached Basin City and was totally dismayed to have only covered 35 miles. Gads – now I was really feeling last month’s indoor Buffy/Star Trek fest.
Well, anyways, not a bad opening gambit to put in two centuries on the first weekend of the year.
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June 15th, 2010
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