Throwback

So this morning I decided to ride at the usual morning time, even though I didn't have to go to work today. At 6:30 am it was in the low 50s and there was a strong and gusty wind blowing out of the North. I was all ready for summer a few days ago, and now we get this bizarre winter throwback. I guess I shouldn't complain too loudly since a lot of places farther north are really feeling it this weekend. Even down here, though, the low Saturday night is supposed to be in the 30s. The 30s!!! In April?? What's that about. Mother Nature must have had enough of Al Gore already. But I digress...

So out I went to the good 'ol levee, wearing knee-warmers and two jerseys and full-finger gloves and not very happy about it at all. The turnout was pretty low as expected, considering the weather and the holiday and all, but we had a nice little group that rode out to the usual turnaround at a moderate Friday pace. On the way back we saw Tim and Reo coming the other way, so Mark and I turned around and rode with them out to the "first dip," and them turned around again into the headwind for home. A little while later we came across the rest of our original group which had apparently turned around when they ran into John, so anyway we had a little help for the long headwind ride. Tomorrow will be chilly again with a 7 am temperature prediction of 48F. Unfortunately, the forecast for Sunday is looking pretty bleak right now: temps in the 30s with a high probability of rain and possibly sleet. May as well be in Michigan! I turned the gas to the furnace pilot light off two weeks ago for heaven's sake. So I guess I'll just have to play it by ear for Sunday, especially since it's easter.

I noticed on the Pez Cycling website that Gina's Kenda Tire team got a big article pitching their fundraising calendar. Pretty good free publicity, eh? We did a LAMBRA calendar like that one year, but I don't think it was such a hit.