What Happen to Winter

Spring is almost here which means longer days and warmer weather. This is usually a welcome sight after a dark, cold winter. But I don't think we had any winter this year. Yes it was dark and there were a few days where I went to put the dog out in the morning and said "It feels kinda cold" and once or twice I noticed some white stuff on the ground. But I never shoveled any snow or got out my winter coat. The most amazing thing however is that I wrote my bike EVERY weekend of the winter.

There were a few times when I hit the trail on the mountain bike because I didn't want to deal with the cold or wind on the road but there was never a weekend where the conditions won't let me go out for a ride. Normally I'm lucky if I get out once or twice a month during winter and even in the summer there is usually a few weekends where I get rained out. So this winter will go in the record books as the year I never stopped riding.

Still I'm glad the warmer weather is here and that we moved our clocks forward. In a week or two I should be able to get a ride in after work and start building some real miles. Last year was spent riding the roads in and around Philadelphia for my new book. That was a lot of fun and I have a few new place to ride but I am looking forward planning my rides based on my mood as opposed to a check list needed to finish the book.

Although I don't have a set list of rides I need to do this year I do have a few plans. I do want to do some more hills this year and plan to spend a little more time in Frenchtown and beyond. I would like to spend a weekend in Delaware. The Philadelphia book does have a few cool rides down there that my co-author did that I want to try. I would like to make it up Mt Greylock and also head up to Lake Champlain. I will also definitely head back into Philly a couple of time. I'm looking forward to more time on the bike and some interesting sighs along the way. You never know what you are going find when you ride. Like this car on Gordon Road that must of been going a little too fast.