Nice ride today

[bill_schubert]

My longest ride in a while. I revisited a route I used to ride and it is still available so we'll redo this one. But not today. I listened to Beethovan's 9th during the whole ride and damn if the chorus didn't kick in at the bottom of the longest hill doing their best to help. Very nice of them. My butt is a little sore. I've not been riding enough. Couple of days off and a couple of short rides will fix it. [image: Capture.JPG]

Comments

[thestainlesssteelrat]

Am I right in thinking that's on roads? How are drivers there, respectful of cyclists? It's all a bit too busy and narrow here, at least locally, to have an enjoyable ride.

[bill_schubert]

Yeah, this is road riding. I've always had good karma with cars. Only once in 35-40 years of being on roads can I say that someone tried to do something bad (teenager drove really close trying to clip me with his mirror). Just today I had a car wait for me and give me room to cross ahead of him when I needed to be on the other side of the road. I waived, he waived. Everyone nice. I'm pretty good at putting myself in the position of controlling the interactions and I always stop at lights, etc, acting like a car and giving room for them to get by. Plenty of room for both if everyone plays together.

There are a bunch of cyclists around here (north of Lance Armstrong's Austin) so people are used to them. So far, so good.