Fall Weather. Awesome Riding.

Left the house at 9:40 this morning to go meet a few people at Tim's in St. Catharines. Took the Lake to Lake gravel trails to get there which ended up being just over 50 minutes. When I got to Tim's I seen fellow bloggers De Cal, Watt, and Kurton's bikes leaning on the garbage can then the Etzl's, Jessica Tripp, Bryan Sheldon, and another blogger Ben Perry arrived. I knew that this endurance ride was going to be fun. Standing there was a little cold but once we got going again it was all good. Quick stop on the way out to Niagara On The Lake at Picard's where we found a snowbank that would be cx practice, a few face plants later and we had a rideable line that killed some time while a few went in for food.

"What a perfect winter day for riding" was said quite a few times, twas indeed. On the way back a few branched off and we made one more stop at Tim's before parting ways. De Cal, Watt, and I still had the locks in Thorold to climb and a few more km's. A final attack from Watt at the top to take some points for the polka dot jersey and it was just me and De Cal. Some shitty stuff, a massive puddle, and a few mud patches later and I was ridin solo. There was alot of snow and ice from the bridge where we split to Allanburg, including a mini snowbank just before the road. Snowbank practicing was very useful in the end and not a complete waste of time.

Still felt good at the 4h mark but at 4:10 hunger set in and I couldn't wait to get home and munch out.

Finished with just over 4:20 of ride time which is just a little more than I wanted, but it made up for yesterday's short-coming. The neighboor had the hose out to wash his car so a quick spray and the rig was shinning. Some perogies, chicken, and chickpeas were the recovery food of choice and now it's on to some fruits n' veg.