Monday, April 09, 2018

Riding no matter the temperature. It's time.

Saturday 5 (Charlie, Java John, Tom, and Alex) of us met up to head North into the wind. We were on cross and/or gravel bikes.  I was on my Cutthroat.  If the gravel looked good we would explore that.  It never did so we stuck to pavement. We took the River Road up to Little Falls where we stopped to thaw out frozen water bottles and refuel.  Tom headed back while the rest of us pushed westward.  We took hwy 27 to Dove Road.  What a beat down!  The wind was relentless.  Making the turn South was glorious.
We did turn back into the wind a few times to stack on some more miles.  We stopped again in Holdingford before the final push home on the rollers of River Street.
82 miles in 4 hours 40 minutes.  Good time fellas, good times.

Sunday I got out earlier than our 10 am start on Saturday.  It was a balmy 10 degrees but no wind.  Nothing exciting just county road 8 to almost Becker than almost to Santiago and home.  Good for 52 miles in a bit under 3 hours.  The Cutthroat has been getting lots of road use!

Ended the week with 298 miles and 20 hours.

We got and inch of snow yesterday but by mid week it looks like 50 degrees!  TNR looks to be happening this week too!  Gravel/CX bikes to start.

Come on Spring you can do it!

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