Ride the line

Training advice #1. Make a plan and tell someone else. Have them agree and then call them out. The next thing you know your committed to training. Either you all ride or you get bragging rights. Either way , you win. With that, it was on!

The winter season has begun and what better way to do it then to go for a ride. Call it recon for next year, call it getting a jump on training, call it what ever. Last weekend I found myself riding in a snowstorm with the Kid. "Hard men" we kept saying as we fishtailed down the road in the increasing snow laughing at those who bailed. Images of Paris Roubaix winners, cyclocross champions and the list of hardmen that won them played in my mind...until the wheels slid out from beneath me and I slid down the road contemplating pulling the kid down too.

I hopped back on and decided the best way to stay upright was to take about 60psi out of my tires. I thought tires bled over the course of a week but apparently not as much as I thought. And just as quick the ride was back on. Each snowflake making us feel that 2010 was underway and already on a good track. Hard manning it down the road planning the next adventure ,laughing all the way.

There is a fine line between hard man and crazy man and judging by the looks of the drivers that passed us, we were the latter. Thinking about it now, the crazy laughter probably didn't help.