January 29, 2008
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Sunday, January 27
I was hoping that it wasn’t going to rain on my training ride. Of course it did. But luckily, it didn’t start until halfway through so we had to do it all. We headed over to Tiburon on the flats. I’d brought my wet weather commuter anticipating nasty weather with it’s spanking new tires. They did great, but the handlebar tape started falling off of it almost as soon as I’d left the house. What was this bike built over an Indian burial ground?? I’m going to keep upgrading that bike until I like it or I go bankrupt whichever comes first.
There was a flat tire clinic before hand like the week before. Only two people showed up for it so I didn’t have to do too much. So I spent my time ogling ride leader Bruce (left) and chatting up Courtney, Ben’s smokin’ hot girlfriend:
One of Ben’s friends from England was on the training ride with us. He’d never really been on a bike before and didn’t even know how to shift gears. His bike was pretty good although it had these weird comedy hubs and yellow and black alternating colored spokes that I’d never seen before:
Poor Monica wiped out in the gravel as we were heading into Tiburon. We sent her home on the ferry because her knee was throbbing, it was pouring down rain, and we wanted her back.
Another rider had a flat on the way back into Mill Valley.
We stopped in at Mike’s Bikes which was chock full of pretty boys working there. One of the mechanics totally looked like Jesus. But a hot Jesus. Some woman asked Ben and I how long we’d been together. She guessed by the amount of our bickering it was a very long time. I swept the last riders in. Everybody was moving pretty fast. Rain will do that. These three girls were the last riders and I thought they did a great job.
We headed back to Sports Basement and then I went home to dry off.
Bike Mileage:
Today 39.7
Week to date 115.7
Month to date 491.8
Year to date 491.8
Remaining to Goal 9,508.2
Over (Under) plan (231.0)
