Training for ACL5

[Trek420]

This was my first organized ride of the year.

It was cold when I set out from home, cold enough to have 2nd thoughts (did I mention I hate cold?). But I'd told myself I'd get to some ALC training rides and with one starting 1 BART station down I had to do that.

By the time I arrived it was turning into a beautiful day. We had 18 riders including a few newbies.

After the obligatory safety speech we set out.

There was an odd kid, with his mountain bike, not an ALC rider, no helmet who watched us gather and decided to ride with us. One thing odd about this kid is that his face had this palor, grey almost. We were a diverse group of men, women all different ages but we all had that "glow of health". He just wanted to ride with and his frequent cheery "I'm keeping up with you!" were amusing.

He was doing the frustrating and unnerving "ride his pace and then whenver a women passed him struggle and pedal wildly to pass or keep up" thing.

What was not amusing was when I passed him on a hill on Coyote Hills park, called out started to pass and he looked back at me (can't hold a line) and started to move to his left right smack into me.

I like to think I'm an extremely polite and calm cyclist...he's probably off somewhere trying to recover his hearing in his left ear now.

At the coffee/regroup stop I talked to a couple gals about TE board (yes, we recruit on TE). If you're lurking, howdy!

There was some confusion about the route as we left and uhm some people took a wrong turn and another group of 3 slower or just more relaxed men got off route so we were split in 3 groups.

I stayed with Russ the leader and we got back the rest were not far behind us.

ACG, Bikerz, Hill Slug, liksani, Shadon, how's the training goin'?