Sunday Ride

We did another long ride today… just shy of 50 miles, but no running.

During the middle of the ride, a section of our usual course was closed down to vehicle traffic, which made the ride better then normal. There seemed that there was an abundance of cyclists out today. It seemed like a convention or something like it and the funny thing was that these guys were all riding expensive bikes not what would be normally out for the Sunday ride.

It wasn’t until were we approaching our normal turn around point that we saw what was going on. It seems that today was the Wolverine State Time Trial Championships and we were smack in the middle of it. Who knew…? I felt like the guy on the bike in that AOL High Speed Internet commercial.

It was kind of funny and weird that as we were approaching the finish line, people were cheering us on. It felt like I was lying… maybe not lying more like fibbing.

We rested a few minuets and turned around to head back. The official starter noticed that we might not be part of the event and asked us to ride on the shoulder so that we would not get in the way of the rides. I am amazed that he was able to tell that we were not part of the event… maybe it was the way we looked.

Might it have been that I was the only one that had an iPod strapped to my arm, or that my helmet was circa 1980’s, or that I was actually not on a time trial bike. It was either these little clues or he was an unemployed member of the psychic friends network.