Let\’s start the year right by jumping into a ride!

I went out about 9:15 am. As I expected, there were big patches of debris from last night\’s pyrotechnic revelry. There must have been five or six within 4.5 miles, and most of those patches of junk were pretty big.

I wish  the people who set off all those things would get up at the crack of dawn to sweep up their mess. Riding through all that stuff isn\’t so good for bicycle tires! Who wants to start New Year\’s by getting a flat?

The temperature at 53 degrees wasn\’t bad. The wind freshened from 3 mph to 7 mph before I got back home. It was enough to be noticeable and bothersome. Yesterday I did some hard efforts, so I guess I was a bit tired today. Or maybe plain lazy. That\’s not a good way to start off a new year, is it?

I remember last New Year\’s, when I went for a ride. Of course I wanted to start the year right with a ride, but the weather that day was miserable: colder than it is today, and misty/drizzly. Today was better, thank goodness. Although the sky was mostly overcast, it didn\’t rain; and I don\’t mind not having the sun in my eyes! By tomorrow rain and even T-storms are expected. Great. Right when I have to go back to work.

They say that, what you start the new year doing, you\’ll do all year. I dropped my water bottle today, and I hope it doesn\’t mean that I\’ll do it every ride all year long. What a nuisance that would be.

So I got in my miles for today, and set 2020 rolling!