\”Wake up, legs!\” is what I felt like saying this morning.

You know those days when your legs just don’t feel like doing anything? That was me today. Maybe the extra efforts of April Love to Ride are catching up with me, or maybe I got to bed too late last night. Or do my legs need a good dose of Jens Voigt?

At any rate, my legs felt tired, heavy, and stiff. So I rode easily, and stayed off the big ring. I kept it pretty short, too.  The weather was still quite uncertain, and there were a few raindrops here and there. The farther I rode from home, the more frequent the drops became; and I was concerned that I was heading right into heavy rain.

Speaking of weather, things got really wild in the wee hours. I think I remember hearing heavy rain and a lot of thunder. When I was out on the road bike, I rolled past some areas that had power outages; and I saw some branches on the ground. I later learned that a severe T-storm warning went out at 2:22 am; and there was even a possible tornado!

I was lucky; the worst of it missed me. In other parts of town, trees were down; I saw at least one report of a car being hit by a falling power pole; and power lines were down. Last I heard, they\’re still working to determine whether there was an actual twister.

It looks like the weather will improve overnight; and the weekend looks good. So wake up legs; I want to go to the salvage store Saturday; and do a long ride on Sunday!