I dutifully got up at the crack of dawn, after a particularly poor night of sleep (dinner & wine of course), for a ride.

It started ok, my legs fine and I was cruising along at a decent rate. When I got into the climbs though, the road conditions became alarming - huge piles of rock, mud, and gravel - from last night's rain. I did the climb up sunset canyon road and then called it quits as the rain began to fall. We've been getting sooooo much rain, more than in years I'm told, it is a bit disconcerning!