Originally Posted by
Ray9
Southwestern New Hampshire:
It is a miserable spring as usual. I have been riding outside since March and I have new shoes, jackets, shirts, bib shorts, lights, gloves, goggles etc. I have been riding my number two bike mostly because it is not just cold, it is wet and windy. These are the dues I pay. I have been riding in my old shoes, but I have put a slit in one new shoe to accommodate the outside of my left foot and a cutaway in the insert for the ball of my foot. I got some nice jackets and jerseys off the clearance rack of the bike store. I saw them last year when they were new and twice the price I just paid for them. It is nice to be small and nice to be big. I am small.
It looks like it is going to rain for a week, but I just rode twelve days in a row and if I have to I will ride my indoor bike. I am currently doing just 30 miles but in a few weeks that will be 50. I do it every year. I am 78.
Seventy-eight?! I used to think that's old.
Conditions here in central Connecticut haven't been much better. Only two or three pleasant bike weather days this year. Rained yesterday and today. I am under a lot of pressure--I have 74 birthday-miles to do in three weeks, and the longest training ride I've had so far is 40 miles. The birthday rides seem to get harder every year. Still, when I grow up I want to be just like you, and do 78 miles.