Every day you can ride is a nice day. The smells, the colors, life going by at just the right speed. But why are some motorists insistent on taking extraordinary risks to save a few seconds? Is their job so much fun they’ll risk life & limb getting there? Check out the car in the photo. We’re descending 84, towards Woodside. This guy is passing Kevin entirely in the wrong lane, on a corner, with no way to know if there’s oncoming traffic. A total percentage game. Russian roulette. You can only do this so many times before you can’t. At least the reaction time for either this guy or an oncoming car would be so short there’d be no way for either to take one of us out.

Nice this morning to not have any fog. Dry roads everywhere. Kevin (kid) and I were joined by George (long time no see!) and Mark (who left at the top of the park). Nice seeing people we hadn’t ridden with in a while. No records being set (duh, just 9 days back on the bike for me!) but we had a good time.

Due to weather issues last week, I wasn’t able to do a normal Tuesday or Thursday ride. Today was going to be different. Everything from this past Sunday is going to be different. Because it will be normal.

It wasn’t full-normal this morning though. Kevin (kid) couldn’t make the ride due to a cluster headache, but Kevin (pilot) was there to nurse me up the hill. Easy 34 minute pace up Kings, not that I could have managed something harder. Still remember the days when I could be sick as a dog and still be under 30. Skyline was a bit wet and cold; got down to 39 degrees. Fortunately I was able to keep up enough steam to be warm. Heading down 84 West towards West Old LaHonda, I was even able to trade the front with Kevin.

West Old LaHonda? Don’t know how long before they get it repaired. But, I haven’t seen further deterioration of the washed-out section either. Last time for me on that section was February 10th. It’s been that long. Wow.

It’s good to be suffering on the normal rides again.