Ride home was ... wet ... AGAIN. You people in the Pacific Northwest ... please, keep your rain up there, will you? This is getting ridiculous. I really don't mind the rain but this is May 6th after all and it s/b sunny and warm, dang it.

The 20-miler was pretty fast b/c I had a nice tailwind. I had a mini-close call where I was riding the narrow strip between the road surface and the curb, something I often do on First Street b/c it gets very narrow in places. I misjudged the height difference between the two surfaces, the road being a little higher than the curb strip. When I made the move to get back to the road surface (just a little nudge of the wheel) my front tire didn't cooperate. For a moment, I thought I was toast. I instinctively started de-clipping my foot but there'd be no way I'd get out fast enough. Luckily I made it by lifting the wheel a little.

This all occurred in less than a second or two. I could have gone down fast and there was a lot of traffic. As it was, I shrugged it off ... but started concentrating a little harder !!