Finally... riding 2 days in a row
Yes, the weather and my schedule has finally cooperated to get in back to back rides.
On Tuesday I rode about 27 miles with Hirakukibou, our first ride together this season. It was cloudy and very, very windy, but warmish. After five miles, I had my knee warmers, vest, and head cover off. Awesome ride, and it started raining about 15 minutes after I got home.
Yesterday, DH and I had arranged our schedules to do a club ride that had the lunch at one of our favorite places. It's a rustic shack on a pond that hardly anyone knows about. Great food and beer. Unfortunately, I was feeling rushed, that I wouldn't be able to get to my client's house by 3:30, as it's pretty far. DH's ankle is still hurting and he was kind of negative, so we decided to ride ourselves, leaving later. Of course, my client cancelled (it's school vacation week here and of course, why would you make your kid keep his therapy session?). We left at noon and rode into Harvard and Bolton, doing one of our favorite climbs. Stopped at Nancy's Airfield Cafe in Stow for lunch. Right before we got here, all of a sudden, DH started sprinting up a small hill, like he was testing me. I was tired from a lot of climbing, and when we got to the airport, he said he did it to keep our average above a certain point. Great.
I had a light lunch of soup and salad, but eating affected both of us. We slowly made it back home, about 14 more miles, as we went the long way to avoid a climb we didn't want to do. Too bad, as we rode on one of my favorite roads to go fast on, but my legs were dead. We rode just under 39 miles and it was so warm I was in a short sleeved jersey for almost the whole ride. I also finally rode my Kuota outside on this ride.
I was exhausted and was seriously tempted to skip boot camp this morning, but I went.
