Sunday Morning and The Night Before



Who knew that bicycling jerseys
could be so stylish?



The Sunday ride went off without any big hoopla or fanfare, Again, we chose the longer of the two routes and came in long after the other folks had finished. We won’t bother mentioning that instead of making a left turn I went straight for another mile or two and then realized the error. We came back to the road we should have been on and then made a short cut out of the next series of turns by remaining on the same road, so our wrong course didn’t actually add any extra miles on the trip. Today’s total mileage was 56.

Last night’s banquet was spectacular. A quilt had been made out of parts of other people’s tandem event shirts and then was given away in a drawing (Valerie had two squares from shirts she donated, in both the upper and lower left hand corners). When I had first heard of the project, I didn’t think too much of it. But seeing the completed work in person certainly changed my mind. I was actually hoping they’d draw our number. Of course, they didn’t.

The highly coveted quilt.

The one they drew belonged to a couple who have become synonymous with tandem cycling in the area, Gabe and Diana Mirkin. We both agreed that being as how we didn’t win it, nobody probably deserved it more than they did. (Even if we had won it, they probably would have deserved it more!)

The wind was still blowing this morning, and many of the couples complained of the chill in the air. I have to admit that I was a little on the cool side myself for most of the ride today. The big difference was that today the sun came out; yesterday it remained behind a layer of clouds.