biking
I’ve been putting in a lot of miles lately. Mount Tam (at ~50 miles and 5000 feet of climbing) has replaced Conzulman as my almost daily ride, and I have a nice little google calendar set up with mileage/climbing goals to get me to within 80% of the RAMROD mileage/climbing by the time the ride happens. Not a lot of wiggle room, though.
A few things, in no particular order:
- I thought I’d seen the height of badassery when I passed a man with tree trunk thighs, leaning way over his handlebars climbing up Conzulman, on a fixie. But today I saw what might just be more hardcore: A guy climbing that annoyingly long hill up from Sausalito to the bridge, on a unicycle.
- Saturday when descending from the east summit of Mt. Tam, I came very, very close to running over the head of a very, very long snake that was sunning itself on the road. I jerked my wheel to the left (at 30mph) and narrowly avoided it. I didn’t actually see the wheel miss it - it all happened so fast - but the front tire didn’t show a wet or bloody spot, so I guess it survived.
- Most people remember the road rage incident in Australia last month, but Peter showed me something quite a bit more horrifying today, thankfully after I returned from my ride, or I might have never left the house. Pretty intense (and wholly amazing from a “I can’t believe he captured that image” perspective) carnage
here.(Update: it appears the flickr page has been taken down, so against all reasonable copyright law, I saved my cached-copy and uploaded it here: cycling-accident.jpg)
