Friday Morning Worlds
So, I joined in on the Friday morning work Ride today, It was me, Joe (He’s a cat 2 roadie) my boss, and some other strong riders from the engineering dept. It kicked off at 7, we weaved in and out of the local streets and made our way to Old La Honda (OLH). OLH is about 3 to 4 miles and 2000 feet up and it’s a Classic, I think Levi and Dave Z hold the record for climbing it. Anyway as our mini Peleton made its way down some side streets. We coasted by some girl……but then the hill started going up and she passed us. She made the right onto OLH and we followed. Joe didn’t set off to chase her, and she pulled off the side of the road and went into the woods to take care of business.
I joked with Joe, wouldn’t it be great if she got done taking a dump, caught us and then beat us up OLH? Joe said that’s not happing so are dreams of having something to look at for the next 20 minutes were shattered. We began to pull away from the rest of our group when suddenly……swoosh. She ripped by us with a purpose. It was on. Joe got on her rear wheel and I got on Joe’s, well for a little bit. We droped the rest of the group and struggled to hang on. I decided to let Joe fight it out alone let off the gas and lost sight of them. I got top about 30 Seconds behind them. Joes face was all white with his SPF 70 Sun block on and had a big drop of spit hanging from his chin. He almost fell over, I guess he didn’t ask for her number.
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but we got her name for him. I wonder if she noticed the victory brewing emblem on my ass. We cruised back down to the bottom and did the typical town line sprints. What a way to start the work day!