Today was the best I have had on bicycle in a long time. It was one of those rare times when your two wheeled companion becomes an extension of your body. There were hills and headwinds, but it didn't matter. I was flying. I am already feeling the effects of my base strength regiment kicking in. Which is a little unfortunate because at this time of the year I don't really want to be. I want to be slow. My only intentions were to go out on a short 2 hour easy ride, with a few speed drills to liven things up. In the end I managed to keep myself under control and only let the throttle loose a few times. Hopefully this a sign of things to come and will certainly help keep my motivation through all these long rainy base-mile days.
So not only was I feeling super on the bike - but I had the most fantastic interaction with an automobile. As I was riding along a few teenagers driving their parent's fancy S.U.V. pulled up alongside me and started screaming out the window. I have no idea what they were saying, I was too busy listening to Lou Reed on my minidisk player. Probably something along the lines of "Get off the road faggot" or "Ride on the sidewalk asshole!" So I just glanced at them, laughed and flipped the bird. Meanwhile they are going insane inside the behemoth gas guzzler. Honking their horn and swerving back and forth along the road. Those dumb kids were so busy trying to irritate me that they failed to notice the line of cars stopped at the intersection. SLAM! Three car pileup at 20 mph! I had the front row seat to watch all the action.
As I rode away unscathed I turned around to wave and laugh at the fools who got what they deserved. Oh sweet justice.
Cars-R-Coffins. (I don't think anybody got hurt, it wasn't a major accident or anything. I can only hope that the jackass teenage driver got paralyzed or something.)
