Awesome Ride (Part 2)

This time of year is really hard to get a good bike ride in, by the time you get home from work, walk the dog and get ready to ride its almost 4:00 PM and it gets dark at about 5:45 PM. Brian doesn't get home till later than I do so that even cuts the amount of daylight down even more, so what I did was rode up Sugar Run and came down Horseshoe Curve to get a little more riding time. WOW! It was a cold decent down the Curve, when I got to B's he was just finished getting ready. What timing! As we take off to climb Red Hill the sun was already down pretty far in the sky and we figured we only had about 45 minutes to an hour so we had to make the best of it. As we start up Red Hill there was quite alot of traffic so we rode single file and B was at the front doing the pace making and I felt like Andy Schleck following Jens Voigt up the Col du Tourmalet. Haha! so we get probably get a little over half was up and I decided to give B a break and go to the front and pace a bit well we we got close to the top and B surprised me and attacked so I jumped to follow his attack and my chain skipped a couple gears and I thought it was off the chain ring but it wasn't . I recovered but he had a pretty good gap opened up, which reminded me of a race I did back a few years ago in Indiana Pa. We started and it was flat for the first few miles and then came the first climb as everyone started to slow as the climb started up I tried to change to my small chain ring on the front, my chain jumped and snapped and my race was over. I rode home in the broom wagon. Bummer! Back to the ride, I did recover and got B at the top but that was a good attack!! The rest of the ride was pretty uneventful but it was just great to be on the bike and have the warm temps. Hope you are enjoying our Blog as much as we like reliving the crazy outdoor moments!!