It rained all night, but by about 5 AM it stopped and the skies cleared. I got up early to take the long way to work. Rode 18.5 miles. The temp was 41 and the wind was light.

With the rain just ending shortly before I headed out the door, the roads were very wet. I got on the MUP, and as I made my way around to the west side of town the worms came out. Thousands and thousands of worms crossing the pavement. I did my best to ride around them but there wasn't any way I could avoid them all.

When I arrived at work I looked down at my bike and was shocked to see the whole thing layered with worm guts. Apparently I rode over a lot more of them than I thought. I knew if I left the bike sitting in the sun I'd have a baked worm mess on my hands, not to mention attract every scavenger bird in the county. So I ran inside the office and grabbed the paper towels. I wiped the carnage from the bike the best I could. There were at least two dozen whole worms still alive stuck to various parts of the bike. Many, many more suffered a more gruesome fate, particularly the ones that got run through the drivetrain or wrapped around the brakes.

This picture doesn't do justice to how many worms were on the bike: