Cold feet….
Don’t you just hate it when you screw up? I mean, come on. I had my booties at work with me today. I knew it was 47 degrees at lunch. I just didn’t want to mess with putting them on, and knew I had made a mistake before I got out of the parking lot. Not sure what I was thinking.
I got a little careless and gave myself a little scare as I was turning off Grant onto the farm road heading east to the school. I was standing in the drops to climb the hill, and hit the corner a little hot, so I knew I was going to go wide. Unfortunately, there was a blue mustang coming up to the intersection that I didn’t see until it kind of popped over the hill. I got on the rear brake, but since I was in the drops and hadn’t gotten all the way back into the saddle yet, I couldn’t get to both at the same time. Because my center of gravity was off from standing, the bike gave me a nasty skid as that rear wheel locked up. Fortunately, I controlled it and got over into my own lane without going down or hitting the car. I’ve since added that one to my lessons learned and it won’t happen again.
The good news is that the lake that turned me around last week on my lunch ride had receeded enough that I could make it through. Water was still on the road at both edges, but the center line was high enough that it didn’t have any standing water. There was about a 3 foot wide strip that I could negotiate to make it through with only the spray from the tires getting me wet.
17.3 mph average speed for the 10 miles. I noticed from the computer that I’ve now managed to get in 301 miles this year on the single plus maybe another 70 or so on the tandem. It’s been a slow and cold start this year, but hopefully it will get better soon. I can take consolation in this (you’ll have to look for the 3/24/08 entry).
God bless….
TW
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