It was different today, but still fun. It started out with my normal couple of mile run through town to start my mountain climb to work. Well, two blocks from home, the first of a series of kamikaze car drivers pulls out from a side street across my path forcing me to swerve right to miss her. I’m thinking, “I’m not even awake yet! Please, can’t you drivers give me a mile or two to warm up first?” I just shake my head, I don’t even bother to yell at her.

The dodging car theme continues and then I come to the MUP along the river levee that I never take. I think, “hey, I will get away from the cars for a few blocks and ride the east side of this path I have never ridden before”. It was pure brilliance on my part, until the path ended a block short of the street I wanted. Come on now; not only do I have to do evasive maneuvers before I’m awake, now I must actually think and figure out how to get over to the street I want.. Daymn! That is a lot to expect of me in the morning.

Well I find my way to the street I need, I find my mountains and I’m in heaven. The rest of the ride, all climbing, went so well, I added an additional 3 mile climb on the end of the climb and dropped down a tight twisty narrow mountain road to my office.

I can’t wait for my commute home; is it 5 yet?