After last Sunday's inaugural ride on my new carbon road bike, I went the next day with my team on a mostly all-day casual ride out of downtown St. Paul on the Vento and Gateway Trails to Stillwater for lunch and back via the Brown's Creek Trail, ending at a brewery for a beverage and additional calories from a yummo food truck. Definitely the ratio of food to energy expended was high, but also delicious. I am proud of my planning for that ride in terms of anticipating when people would need snacks and water and what their average speed would be.
The ride was kind of chilly, windy, and wet. (When the skies opened up for a bit, one of my fellow riders said, "NOW this feels like we're doing one of Maggie's bike rides!") I took my old bike and didn't worry about the chain and related bits getting all gunky, since my bike was scheduled to get a new chain and cassette on Tuesday. I suggested that they replace the cables at the same time, which eventually led to the discovery that my front hub was basically destroyed, so I got a new front wheel, too.
The bike shop bill was equivalent to one of my lease payments on my el cheapo Civic. Considering I've ridden my bike more miles than I've driven over the past couple of months, and I put gas in my car only about once every six weeks, that all seems fair. (Although it does raise the question of whether we really need two cars.)
It seems I am working a bike.
96-down is a 7-letter word. Mahoney. 7 letters. Done.
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