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I'm just your average 30 something white geeky male who want's to be cool... but it's hard when you drive a minivan!
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When you wake up with cotton mouth... When your bikes are tangled up in the bike closet like two dogs humping and it takes 5 minutes to pull them apart... When your GPS decides to keep turning off every 2 minutes in the first 3 miles... When you get to work and realize that your backup GPS device (the one with the broken strap) is dead too... When your iPhone doesn't want to pickup any GPS satellites (yes I carry 3 GPS devices)... When you get down the road 2 miles and realized that you forgot to fill up your water bottles at work...
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It's never easy (when it's hot!)
Yesterday Patrick and I decided to meet up for a "lazy" ride at Skeggs. We have both been putting in the miles lately and we thought it might be nice to just get together for a easy ride where we are not slaves to some schedule like a typical dawn patrol ride.
The plan was to just take it easy on the climbs and have fun. And I think we could have accomplished that had we not ridden at Skeggs. It's all climbing there. Nothing but climbing (well some descending but you spend more time climbing they you do descending). By the end we where both spent... well I was more spent then Patrick of course since I started slurring my speech and lost a bit of my coordination.
Plus it was hot as hell out! When I say hot I mean "drink 100oz of water and ask for more" kind of hot. The kind where when you get into the shower after the ride and you're drier then when you stepped in (I know that doesn't make any sense what so ever but it's my damn blog and my logic prevails here!).
The kind of hot where you think, "you know I could probably squeeze another 50oz bladder in my pack". And that's how ideas are born... After I ran out of water, I fantasized about having a frozen 50oz bladder in my pack that would conveniently melt enough to quench my hydration needs by the time I downed the 1st 100oz.
Of course this would compliment the "freeze half your bladder trick" I learned riding in AZ in the summer. So the next time I have a ridiculous idea of riding in super hot weather I'm going to employ this new spectacular super bladder idea.
BTW... Patrick and I raised $1.68 for our causes on Plus 3 Network. Check out our rides:
Patrick's ride and my ride
