Under sunny skies and warm weather the team gathered for the first hundred mile training ride of 2011. Perhaps one of the most boring rides routes in existance but when a group of 15 or so rides it becomes a hoot.  The roads are straight as an arrow with some rolling ups and downs from DIA to Deertrail, Co – a one horse town.

Today we rolled nice and tight 2 x 2, chatter and bs’ing about.  It is winter and of course it would not be complete with multiple flat tires – once november rolls around everyone should put on some heavy, slow winter tires, just sayin.  The ride is fun,  organized and has a few moments where it turns into a race,  not the whole ride but a few key moments ( town lines ).  Since there are only 3 towns in 100 miles we sprint for each town and miles before the sprint things start to line up, everyone becomes quiet and the pedals are moving with a purpose.

I lead out the last sprint from a ways out and it was fast and single file,  a young new comer tried to come around me but I shut that down! It was great to be out on such a nice winter day, chatting, looking at bikes, hearing of plans of old and new. It is going to be a good 2011 and I am looking forwards to this weeks Deertrail team ride.