Chad got home only a little after I did last night and since we have no food in the house we ordered pizza. Our faithful readers will probably recall that when I was out of town Chad did dishes, cleaned the house, made all kinds of food, and in general ran a very tight ship. In all fairness I will say that I did none of those things. I have no excuse.
This morning we got a late start to our bike ride; it was about 50 degrees but felt cooler so we put on arm and leg warmers and full finger gloves. By the time we go to the DC border with Maryland we had both removed our arm warmers and gloves and at our first stop at the BP in Potomac we dispensed of the leg warmers. The high today was 70; not a cloud in the sky; the last of leaves are still vibrant yellows and reds so the views were amazing. It was really a perfect day for a ride. And the day was made even better since before we even left the house we saw that our friend TJ had a phenomenal swim at IMFL. We could only hope that he was having as stellar a ride as we were.
One thing about this ride, we've done this route at least 10 times this year. Our times have varied by about 20 minutes depending on the wind. Two weekends ago it was frigid and windy. Today was somewhat windy, but we had a tailwind much more than last time. And the fact that we weren't shivering definitely helped. Lots of leaf peepers were out, especially on Sugarloaf. Chad has promised to take me hiking one of these days... Can't wait!
After our ride (5 hr 30 min for me and 5 hr 15 min for Chad), we did a brick run. I did 30 min and Chad did 42, although he ran almost twice as far as me. Oh well. He had to one up me at something.
The exciting thing is that TJ had a crazy fast bike split - 5:41. Now we're checking in every 15 min or so to see how he's doing on the run. We're about to head out for the evening so it'll be Chad's job to check on his iPhone. Up next: trail run tomorrow.
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