Spring arrives officially tomorrow. Temperatures and sun intensity are on the rise. So commences the time for bike tans...or in my case, skin redness with increased freckle-dom that will merge so as to appear tanned. I wore my Austin Y-Tri jersey on yesterday's 23 mile bike ride with Nancy and now have new lines that out shadow the bike jersey lines from Sunday's ride. The cooler weather recently had me wearing my bike pants, but I did get a few more freckles from Sunday's ride. Today, it was back to cooler weather so the freckle fest did not grow on the legs, but my nose and arms were happy with the sunscreen I put on before the ride. Time to invest in a gallon or two of sunscreen.
Thanks to Nancy for letting me drag you out to the countryside for our bike ride and gabfest. Thanks to Bonnie for the run/sweat session yesterday afternoon....it was 86 degrees so while the dogs had big tongues and played in the Rattan Creek we just dripped and envied their waterhole play. Thanks to Vicki for the ride this morning and to Jaime for kindly asking me to join in the Suicide Circuit I set up for my Sports Conditioning class even earlier this morning. Core exercise, then run suicide/lines on the basketball court, core exercise .... repeat until 10 station circuit completed. Sound fun? Amazing how long a minute seems to last! Coaching and commenting on form is way easier than actually doing the workout. Hoisted on one's own petard, eh?
We sure have had some pretty biking weather and I've really enjoyed exploring out past FM 2338. If you haven't been out there to enjoy this stretch of country road not yet open to cars, I highly recommend it. Or better yet, give me a call and I'll ride with you. :)
"It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle." Ernest Hemingway
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