Yesterday, on paper at least, my plan was to get some bigger miles in. Ride early 2-3 hours then meet C-bread & whomever @ 10:30 for more miles. Woke up to rain & lightening so adjusted my plan to focus around the 10:30 meet up. Got to the coffee shop & cue more rain, hard rain at that. I don't think we rolled out of there until nearly noon. Streets were wet, bike paths had big puddles, but we were optimistic.
Made it to 84th & Old Cheney, both C-bread & myself were bonking already from too much coffee & dip in blood sugar. As we rolled in he's got a flat. The surrounding skies are not looking good but its just spitting a bit. Fix one flat, roll out & his tire goes down again, big piece-o-glass he hadn't spotted before, damn. S-big lives up the road so we decide to push on to his house for the a proper fix...
If ya can't ride, run...
shouldering skillz...
still running...
and running...almost there...
Spent about 30 minutes at S-big's chatting with his family & then pushed on. We decided on a bike path ride not wanting to get to far from town with ominous clouds in all directions.
We ended up in North Lincoln on the Dietrich as lightening started to pop all around us. We hauled ass for cover, this time at Cycle Works. As we rolled in the skies opened & it poured for quite awhile, probably holed up there for nearly an hour.
To wrap this up I finally made it home about 5 hours after I had left. 30 miles, 6 mph. It was fun though, thanks guys.
Later,
TK
1 comment:
Wow, I'm wicked sore from that little jog. :)
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