Friday was my first cycle commute of 2009 and it was good to get back on the road with the mountain bike as opposed to idling in traffic with the truck. The first think I noticed is that I seem to have neglected the bike a bit from some previous winter ride and the drive train had a little rust on it and was a little noisy, but shifting was still fairly good. I’ll need to attend to that this weekend.
I followed my usual route downtown taking the bike paths to the Niakwa park area, detouring over the Fermor bridge as the Seine flooding had the bike path bridge well under water. Only the tops of the hand rails are visible. After that it was down DesMurons, over to St. Marys and into the heart of the city. Traffic was typical, and drivers were good to me.
At work when I entered the locker room I was greeted with a bit of a mess. Some co-worker treating the area like his personal space and there is a pile of towels and “other stuff” in the corner, and more personal items left in the common shower area. Time for a friendly reminder that this is a shared space.
Today should be my first ride with FOG this year, unless it starts pouring before the 10am start. I’ll ride in the rain is it happens after we start but I’m not so big on setting out in a downpour. Gary S. is running a great blog for the club and it looks like he’ll be keeping us all in line this year. Unlike last year, I’ve been training since January and have been out on the road several times already this year, so I’m hoping not to suck too much on the first group ride. It should be fun and I’m looking forward to seeing the group agian.
