MTD – 327
YTD – 5582
I capped an excellent 200 mile week with a nice 50 mile ride with Pope from the Rogue Racing crew. Being blessed with stunning weather last week aided and abetted my plans of racking up big mileage knowing that this week would be mostly in San Diego with no access to a bicycle. I managed two commutes and plenty of riding otherwise. I’m sure it’s mostly downhill on temperature from here but that’s why they make wool, right?
We met up at Seneca and warmed up by heading downtown and out River Road at a spirited pace getting to the club ride right before it left out. As with any well attended (over 100 I’d say) fast club ride there can be a tendency for sketchiness and this one is no different. However, when we pushed off Pope and I sort of ended up front and just started riding. We met a friend of his as we meandered over to Seneca and decided to try to hold them off. Our third – Charles jettisoned his wife and her friend and off we went downtown. The lights downtown as you wraps around to make it back to River Road have a tendency to nullify any breakaway groups but as we made it through we were still all alone.
We rode a decent paceline out River Road and up into Glenview with still no followers and begin to feel like we had it. One last burst through Rudy Lane sewed it up and we finished well ahead of the bunch. Pope rode the same ride the week before and said this one went down 12 minutes faster than before. I’m sure most of that was in the lollygagging section prior to turning out onto River.
After that it was on to the sun baked porch of Heine Brothers for a nice post ride espresso before life returned with ringing cell phones inquiring location. It was a perfect ride in my book and an excellent adieu to the beautiful break we had in the climate. Plus I got two nice compliments on the Metal kit:
I have upped my goal for the year to a nice even 6213 miles (10,000K). Should be pretty well in range.
I hope you’re out there riding…
