2008-02-24 What a Sunday!

The planned 3 hour ride turned out to be a shortened but still tough 2 hours. The weather was around 15°C and sunny which for us here is Global Warming on the rise. I headed up my local Category 3 hill for the first time this year too. It is a climb of about 400 meters over 8 kilometers. That takes over 30 minutes and is a real sweater too. But I just had to get my beautiful Italian Colnago out for its first ride of the year.Once I was up on the ridge I decided that the planned 3 hours was just going to be too much after yesterday's long ride. So, I took a right at the top of the hill and headed back a shortened but interesting ride. All in all it was 46K and about 700 meters of climbing all in wonderful weather. Chris and the kids were out visiting some friends for the afternoon so it just called for a ride out in the warm early spring weather.I am home this coming week and everyone is pleased about that. The weather is planned to change for the worse but then that is expected for this time of year. Guess it is 29 days and counting now. Now I need to get off my feet and get some rest. They are quite tired from the last week of training.Totals for the week are: 9 hours and 236K of training.Keeping the rubber side down.Parrothead