Wednesday, March 07, 2007

First Race of the Season...Not

I showed up at the first OVR race in Germantown and found out it was cancelled. It had snowed a little Saturday night and the promoter thought the roads might be dangerous. A group of us decided to go ahead and ride anyway. It turns out they were right to cancel the race. There were sections of the race course that had a thin layer of snow that could have taken a group down. One section of road had flooded and was covered with mud. There was no way we could have raced on that road. Of course, we had to ride through the mud. It took me forever to get the bike clean afterwards. We made two trips back to the parking lot to drop off people during the ride. In the end, Dick and I were the only ones still riding after almost 3 hours. I would have been willing to ride longer but the 20+ mph wind and temps barely reaching 30 caused us to cut it a little short. The wind wasn't so bad, it was the temperature. I will generally ride in even colder weather but I was a bit under dressed. I was shivering when we got back to the parking lot and called it quits. I was a little disappointed that we didn't get to race but the promoter made the right call.


The muddy bike...

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