Date: 1/11
Ride Time: 56:21
Bonus: I rode in the dark... and snagged a bridge pic
Total Time: I don’t know what the dark bonus is or the bridge bonus but I got them
Strava:
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Enter Sandman:
Motivation this week was tough. Typical long hours at work for this time of year makes it tough to wake up. Add the cold and dark and it’s an effort to get outta bed. I got home this week on average from work at about 10:30pm, so waking up at 4:30 is a no picnic. I got up yesterday and was all dressed and ready to go but the ground didn’t freeze so that was a fail. I don’t ride my road bike below 32 in the dark( I went down on some ice I didn’t see two seasons back, never again) so I had to wait until today to get some time on dirt.
When I looked at my phone I saw this:
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So that was like a kick in the groin. I bundled up for a short ride at 6MR. Conditions were concrete frozen solid which was great. All the trails in the field sections were rutted to hell but the woods were fine. Trees provided some nice protection from the wind. Got the crap scared out of me when I took a tight turn and there was a deer standing right there. It didn’t know which way to run and ran toward me at first.
Got Rick’s google-fest thesaurus’s favorite riddle bonus.
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