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The hardest thing I've ever done

Well, it may not have been the hardest thing I've every done, but today's annual New Years day ride certainly proved worthy of note.

I made it out of the parking lot, and another 6 or so miles down the road just fine, but shortly after that, things became a little daunting as the pace picked up, and not being well positioned in the pack, I was quickly dropped.

I managed to pick up a few other stragglers along the way, and eventually made it to Corona Del Mar where I met up with some other buddies for the long slug home.

It seems the eight days of rain, and bitterly cold temperatures during the month of December may have finally taken its toll. (I barely managed 400 miles this month, and a lot of those miles were junk miles.) I seem to have lost all semblance of fitness.

I guess I could blame it on learning yesterday a fraternity brother died suddenly on November 22nd (he was the same age as me) for feeling so lousy today. I could also attribute it to the cold and all the extra clothing I needed to stay warm this morning, and once the weather becomes more southern California like again, I'll be able to turn things around, should that happen before I'm too far gone. (It's supposed to rain again tomorrow.)

I'll bet I could even come up with a few more excuses, if I thought about it a bit more, but right now, the only thing I'm interested in doing is taking a nap.
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Gerry said…
I feel your pain, the rain is really starting to SUCK ! If I wanted to live like this I would have stayed in NY.....
I made in the pack to CDMR to have coffee, you rode right by...
9:58 AM
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