Redundancy

Today I played hooky and pedaled out of town at 8:30. It was 24 deg at home, 42 deg at the north edge of Boulder, 14 in Hygiene, and highs were forecast to be in the upper 50s in Boulder and mid 40s east of town. The inversion continues.

Anyway, I headed north to ride one of my favorite routes. It was a great ride, as usual, but Rist Canyon and Stove Prairie Road were even snowier and icier than I had expected, so it was entertainingly treacherous at times, both going up and coming down.


I got home as the sun set and looked up in the training log when I last did this ride in the winter. It turns out a it was almost exactly a year ago when I again played hooky. Only that day I got an ice cream sandwich somewhere along the way. No such luck today. The ice cream sandwich shop was closed.