Between the fog and the rain

Ok, not bad—it turns out today wasn’t a complete washout after all…  The Tuesday morning ride is scheduled to start from a shopping center parking lot at 8:00, and ordinarily Brenda will ride out there from the house with a couple of other riders.  But to do that they have to start out here at about 7:15 or so, and today it was not only really foggy then, but it was also cloudy enough that it still had that feel of almost dark to it.  So before I left for work I put her bike in the car and she drove out there.  That helped a little because the fog had some time to burn off a little, and the sun was a little higher in the sky (although you’d never have known it because it was still really, really cloudy.)  The goal was to see if they would be able to ride at all because it was supposed to start raining at about 10:00.

There was a pretty good turnout, considering the weather (that weekday morning group is really pretty consistent), and they got in the whole ride without getting gushed on.  It’s a short ride on Tuesdays—just 25 miles, so that kind of helped too.  And this ridegoes up over some hills (what we call hills) (anybody else would call them overpasses) and Brenda said she felt really strong on them.  I was glad to hear that.  Sometimes when you’ve had a higher-than-usual mileage total in a week it’s not unusual to be a little off after that. 

But even if it had rained hard, we really wouldn’t be able to complain very much about the weather we’ve been having this winter.  I don’t know what it’s been like around the rest of the world, but around here it’s been great!  Must be one of those “la nina” things or something.  Whatever the cause though, it’s been great riding weather.  I only hope it isn’t setting us up for the hottest summer in the history of summers.  But if it is, that’s ok—we’re tough.  We can handle it.  (I hope.)