Saturday, May 2, 2009

Spring!

Took a group bike ride up the North Branch Trail to the Chicago Botanic Garden, about 35 miles round trip. It was a perfect day for it. I was feeling antsy, since I'd not taken a long ride since last summer, so I hit the pedals hard. At one of the street crossings, one of the guys came up and said, "if this is your slow bike, I'd hate to see how fast you go on your other bike."

I looked at him, puzzled. "I'm not that fast."

"Are you kidding me? I'm doing all I can to keep up with you."

I thought about it -- there were only two people ahead of me, both guys. Everyone else was way behind.

"I guess spinning over the winter paid off," I shrugged.

"Big time," said the guy.

After the ride, I celebrated with a hot-fudge sundae. Yes, I did.

3 comments:

SP said...

I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. AN had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn... but the troops were dazzled!

JC said...

Was this before or after they put out their own eyes?

JC said...

Was this before or after they put out their own eyes?