Ya know it was a good ride when you get home and walking up and down the stairs hurts.
Nice very hard core 38 mile jaunt with 4 other teammates last night. Just a constant barrage of attacking and drilling it. Very little talking, too strung out. We had one or two very short mellow sections but the nice part about the route Mark N picked out is the long long stretches w/o stop signs or lights. Good flow to the route. And not flat. no giant lincoln gap type climbs just the rolling terrain north and west of the city.
And the rain stopped for it, one or two sections with a little drizzle but it was dry. A bit dark rolling home, but with the bridge open my exposure is greatly reduced. IE much safe riding home at dusk now that I can shoot down hope to williams to east across the new india point park bridge and up over the Washington bridge and onto the bike path. And with the fading light, i even pushed it on the way home, the tail wind was nice, but even then it felt good to push it to the point where my legs were protesting mightily, cooled down for the last mile or so. But yeah, i was a bike ninja for the time being. But I was not alone, I saw a handful of others out there. But it wasn't raining and the cloud cover was clearing balancing a bit of the gathering dusk... it wasn't really that dark till I got behind the house to dig out my keys.
The rain stopped again for the mornings ride in. But I ditched the Q-pro in favor of the full coverage fended giant this morning. Dry feet are nice. And this morning I had rabbits to chase. One of them I didn't catch but he gave me the motivation to start pushing it and I caught one anyway... felt good. Very good. And no I didn't blow past him. I chatted and rode the rest of the way in, thanked him for the motivation to get my ass moving and for speeding up my commute.
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It's not real bike practice until you taste puke!
I wonder what's happening with the Tues/Thurs church ride that leaves at 5:30 from Route 12/Pippin Orchard Road. Usually the group is big enough to split into As and Bs.
I think that I raced with Mark N at Miles Standish and Quabbin. I think that it was he that I spoke with on our ride into the finish line together at Quabbin. I asked the Reclusive Redneck (aka G-ride) about him, but, ya know, he being RR and such he didn't have a clue who his own "teammate" was.
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you racing Cat 2?
Mark N is one of our fastest guys... he was first and second in his two CX races (plymouth N and S) or something like that, he's cat 2.
I think you are maybe referring to Mike Brier. He's IIRC the only one on the team to do both.
And yeah G-Ride's on the clueless end of things - being in VT and all that - but hey, he's definitely the foundation of our cross team - can't take him out of our team - clueless or not
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