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Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Well, there were no April showers here in the Peach State and it looks like May will continue the same trend. The high temp yesterday was a near record breaking 88 degrees and today's high will be 92. What happened to spring? We have about a week of it in early late March and then some early April storms put an end to that and brought another shot of cold temps. As we've slowly fought those off, we had another week or so and now it's summer (though the humidity isn't as bad). Where are the 75-80 degree days we usually have? Riding in this weather should be lots of fun. Usually I have a little time to acclimate to the heat but not so much this year.

Now that I'm into finals week, I have a little more time to ride consistently. The temptation is to go out and ride a whole bunch of miles. The problem is that I don't really think I have the base to lay down a 1300 or 1400 mile month. So what I'll try to do is ride some an average of 40 miles a day for the next week and see how I feel. If I feel good, I'll up it some. Another problem is that I'm getting tired of riding the same roads. I know that I have it pretty good here in the rural south with decent raods that are lightly travelled but after seven 12,000 mile years, there's the sense that I've seen it all before. I have about 4 or 5 good forty mile loops, meaning I don't have to do some sort of weird cobbling otgether of various small segments with lots of strange turns and backtracking. I also have another 4 fifty mile loops and even a couple of nice metric centruy routes. The problem is that I've done them all so many times that there's little novelty to them. Maybe next week, I'll steal the car and drive down to Warm Springs, park and ride the roads down there. The hard part with doing that though is the idea of spending two hours in the car to ride a similar time ont he bike. Another option is some mountain biking if I feel like making the drive out and back.

In any case, these aren't really terrible problems to have and I'm sure I'll find a way to endure.

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