Hot road avoidance, bad shape

Posted At : July 15, 2008 8:24 PM | Posted By : Erik Voldengen
Related Categories: Bike

I reckon I'm not in very good shape right now, but so what.

It's been hot out here.  When the mercury reads 90 something and you want to go for a ride, what do you do?  I've kind of been cheating and riding my 'cross bike up to Forest Park.  I've got a nice little route all set up.  I go up Springville road, which is hot, but often shaded.  Then I ride over to Germantown, and hit the entrance to Forest Park, which is well shaded.  I ride up something, sometimes ride back down, and stay in the shade.  I like shade.

Lately, I've preferred to ride under a shady canopy of trees, over an inferno of hot reflecting asphalt.  I've really enjoyed getting out on the cyclocross bike, refreshing my memory of how to take a fast corner in loose gravel and accelerating through a silent cushion of pine needles.

There's a couple criteriums races coming up on my calendar that I'd really like to ride respectably.  If I even want a chance of that happening, I will have to shift gears back to roadieVille  pretty soon.  Maybe tomorrow.  Certainly Thursday.  Maybe. 

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I used to do that too. It's amazing how much cooler it is in the park!
# Posted By Steven | 7/15/08 9:57 PM
Phew.
I am glad I'm not the only one.
# Posted By Heidi Swift | 7/16/08 8:11 AM
What happened Tuesday? I didn't see your name in the results? Was it warm tuesday? I kinda like the heat... The skunk smell tends to stick to the inside of your nostrils and stay their a bit longer, and also I found how nice it is to see all these funny illusions in front of me in my overheated state:) Ya, heat, good times! Good times, man!
# Posted By karleta | 7/16/08 3:50 PM
Donna had to work, I couldn't go. Maybe next time!
# Posted By erikv | 7/16/08 6:07 PM
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