Yay! A glimpse of spring.

My biking buddy and I started our "get fit" resolution today with a nice ~20 mile ride in the Boulder countryside. Felt much better than the last 2 rides I've done over the past month. I think I'm finally getting my biking legs back.

I've about had it with cars already for the season though. Last ride I had someone honk and buzz me with 6 inches or less room on a perfectly empty country road with plenty of visibility (he could have, legally, crossed the yellow line and given me all the room in the world). Today a jerk tries to pull out of a driveway onto a 4 lane highway (with another lane on each side for bikes) about a foot in front of us. We both screamed (involuntary reaction) and slammed on our brakes. His reaction to almost killing us? "Sorry, I didn't see you". Why do drivers think that's a legitimate excuse? Do they think that will make us less dead when they smoosh us? Let's not mention the fact that it was broad daylight (and a perfect, blue sky, day) and we were both wearing reasonably bright/light colors (I was wearing my "she loves hills" jersey actually) and my bike/bars are bright red. The only way he "didn't see us" is if he didn't even bother to look *eye roll*. Anyway there was some cursing and calling him an idiot on my part (which he heard, his window was down). Afterwards the ride was quite wonderful, but I really hope the "cagers" get used to our re-emergence from hibernation very quickly because this is getting ridiculous.