Since it’s February it seemed like it was time to finally take the bike off of the trainer. Riding in front of the television is cool and all, but…
Wednesday was a beautiful day, so Lara and I headed out for a quick spin. We waited for the temperature to get above 40 degrees (because there was frost on everything from the night before).
We rode east from Hood River and encountered lots of ice and frost in the shady spots. It was a ride like this last year that put me on the ground and messed up my early season riding, so we were very careful.
Saturday we ventured out on a “real ride” and rode out to Mosier and up Dry Creek Road, which turns to gravel for a few miles. The road was excellent, the weather was perfect and other than quite a lot of gravel on the paved roads it was like a normal Spring ride.
We ran into sometime riding friends Tom and Taylor on the way back from The Dalles and had a mini-group ride all the way home.
Not so bad for early February.
BT
p.s. I talked to my brother-in-law yesterday who had done the Boulevard Road Race in SoCal (1.5 hours east of San Diego) – it is the first big race of the year.
His race had gone early and ended in snow. As the Pro-1-2 field was getting ready to roll out the snow became heavy. There will probably be some good stories out of that.