Great start

I'm back to basics - platform pedals and tenny runners until I can swing another pair of Bonty RL's. Heck, I've been back to my extremely wore out North Face trail runner things just because, well, they were with me for my best "season" to date - 2008. They've got a couple centuries, a gravel century, and some metric centuries in their corner - and they have grooves in the soles where my pedals fit right into. Hah!

The trails have been absolutely gorgeous, and I've taken full advantage of it. Monday through Thursday I racked up 85 miles of commuting.. and taking the wrong way. On purpose. It's great to be free, and the bike just does that. Today I drove because my legs were a little fried after yesterday's winds, and I needed to drop an alternator off at the shop. It probably weighs 40 pounds, and I wasn't sure if that would press my luck on my el-cheapo rack. Man, though, it was hard to trade the view from the driver's seat for this usual view on my commute:
Lincoln's trails have been gorgeous, but not just the trails. Yesterday the wind was howling out of the South and I was itchin', so I headed south. Kept heading south yelling and cussing at the wind on a road south of Lincoln until my legs were howlin' more than the wind.

Called it good and got in a nice solid 26 miles yesterday. Not what I was up to in '08, but I'll take it.. for now. Tomorrow I'm going to hook up with a couple friends in the morning and head out on the Mopac, it's been far too long since I've had a good coating of limestone dust on the LHT. Eagle? Elmwood? Wabash? Don't care, my only goal is to get in a 100 mile week, and I'm easily on track for that.

Sunday? Well, I think these three are up to something...