Today's ride was totally worth being pelted in the eyes by the sleet! Sure now I say this.. but during the ride I was wanting to kick someone's ass for this crappy weather. We started the ride at 11:20am, we were done by 2:00pm. We did a different route that took us to the northern parts of Clarkston, out to Fox Lake Road and back through Oxford. One of the reasons the ride was slower, is since I am "on-call" for work, I had to take a call... and arrange for a co-worker to do some computer nerd work for me since I was miles from home and my laptop (yeah I don't take my laptop on my rides with me) was at home safe and warm. Then it started to rain, then rain and sleet, then I got really cold, and yes even with high cadence pedaling you can still get cold... when your clothing is totally wet. I couldn't see more then 3 feet ahead of me... so that meant I had to stay on my training partner's wheel. He was hauling ass and if I wanted to make it home safe I had to keep up. For some reason my left eye was pelted with more sleet than my right eye. It's my left eye being my "good eye" this was tough as I might as well be totally blind in my right eye (legally blind in my right eye). For some reason my glasses were all fogged up and I had to wipe the inside of my lenses every 40 or 60 seconds... the last 1.5 miles I was really wanting to be done.. I was cold. Its been more than an hour since I have been home and I am just now starting to feel warm. With all this torture I had better be a stronger racer this year! I averaged 12.75 mph with 34 miles of total distance yes there were hills, as usual.
YTD distance: 924.8 miles.
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