Moon and Stars

The moon and stars were still bright in the dark morning sky when I rolled out to meet the early Tuesday levee ride. That meant a clear sky and no chance of rain, which was good. What was less good was the stifling humidity. It may be early October, but you wouldn't have known it from the morning temperature. As we rolled out from the start, someone said, "I hope we don't go too fast through the fog." Fog?? Sure enough, the next five or six miles featured some moderate ground fog that soon rendered my clear glasses nearly opaque. I stuck them into my helmet vents and rode the rest of the ride trying, with limited success, to miss all of the invisible little bugs that were aiming for my unprotected eyes.

There were about a dozen up there today, and with a light tailwind the pace was reasonably fast as we made our way upriver. I guess I finally turned off my front light somewhere around Williams Blvd. As sometimes happens, I dropped back a little too far at one point and got stuck back there behind the rotation as someone farther up kept letting people in ahead of him. It was a pretty long time before I put in the effort to move back up toward the front.

We were approaching the gravel hump out near the Luling bridge when the pace slowed and someone stopped. I was never clear on what the problem was because I just kept rolling slowly up and over the gravel, waiting for the group. Well, it seems the group turned around instead of riding over the gravel like we'd been doing for the last week or so, and when I finally turned around under the bridge the only other rider still coming my way was Chip.

So we had a nice 2-man time trial all the way back into the light headwind, which turned out to have been a pretty good workout. I got home soaking wet from sweat.

To Rocktoberfest is this weekend. Amy has made a new logo which will be pasted to the awards. Those are traditionally bottles of beer for this race. I'll have to play it by ear as to whether or not I'll be able to ride since I'm also the official.