Training Ride Down Rio Hondo

OK this is it – training for RAGBRAI in the rain. It just doesn’t get any better than this. The only thing is the weather has been a little unsettled after the cold front moved in this passed weekend. Sunday morning or rather Saturday night through Sunday morning it rained for real and the Sunday ride was forbidden by the wife, Oh well she just does not understand these things.

Today at noon with a mixed sky I set out for a brisk 35 miler round the loop of the Rio Hondo. Starting out with great Southern California winter weather in the 60′s, I thought I would get through the ride unscathed but that was not the final story. It was a great ride on the Look 386 all decked out for century ridin with new FSA K handlebars and all. So a little rain squall came through. Even though it was sunny intermittently, I got wet for 20 minutes or so but dried out by the end of the ride. Actually, it was really nice riding in the rain. The bike path was empty and a quiet had settled down across the Rio Hondo River that runs parallel to the bike path. The drizzle did not bother the water fowl that now frequent the renewed waterway so it was sweet tooling down the river. I did take the Garmen out of its little holder and put in in my third pocket backside during the wettest parts of the ride however.

So this is it! Iowa is calling and the RAGBRAI is coming in less than 190 days or so. It’s going to be GREAT!