I had one of those embarrassing moments today. You know, the kind where you fail to unclip and fall over, tree-like? Luckily, nobody saw me. Skinned my knee, which periodically stings like a MF.

If a cyclist falls in the parking lot but nobody saw him, is he still an idiot?

The rest of the ride was a lot more fun. I was cogitatin' on riding OLH, but the weekend traffic on the descent afterwards can be daunting. So instead I went up a shorter, lower climb, and then did THAT descent where I passed ONE (1) oncoming car, and a handful of cyclists. I was stuck behind a slower descender (Imagine that! Slower than me!) for a while - narrow and twisty road - and had to keep braking and dropping back so as not to crowd her.

The wind today is... weird, Half the time it seemed to be out of the North, When I stopped in Palo Alto for my usual nibble, I even used the compass function on my iPhone to be sure, and it was absolutely coming from due North. When I got back to San Mateo, heading South toward home, somehow the wind was blowing out of the South. Apart from that, a good time was had by all! In this case, "all" is just me, so I guess a good time was had by me.

Oh, and No Egrets!