Home Sweet Home?
Ahhh, Spring.
I arrived home late last night, eagerly anticipating the first outdoor spring ride today. Mother Nature, it seems, had other plans.
Adding insult to injury, Nature also decided to seep into my basement precisely in the location of my training cave, successfully thwarting any hopes of an indoor ride as well.
Soooo…. instead of working out, or watching the Tour of Flanders with a nice cup of hot coffee and some biscotti, I guess I’ll spend the afternoon squeegy-ing freezing cold, grey, and dog-poo-infused water from the carpet in my basement.
Thanks Nature. That’s just swell.
p.s. I eagerly await news of Brad who out-manned us all and is cranking out 400 watts over soggy and partially frozen gravel roads as we speak. Chapeau, sir. The rest of us should follow your lead and HTFU.
There’s lots of opportunity for gravel up the nose:
Tour of Bruxelles – April 17 (unofficial pre-ride April 9).
http://mbcycling.ca/?p=2351&cpage=1#comment-608
“The surface will be 95% gravel roads (they may be hard packed or loose), 4% dirt road, and 1% pavement. It will be a wide open, rolling with sweeping corners. There will be between 5 and 7 climbs, some reaching a 10% grade. The course will go through the village”
We rode. It wasn’t that bad. There were three of us for a while, and then The Real Doctor killed me the rest of the ride. On his SS cross bike. I’ll pretend the big fat tires were to blame. He has obviously used his spare time more productively than me this winter.
Watts? My response is the same as The Most Interesting Man in The World when asked about manscaping: I don’t know what that is.