Hurray for warm weather!

We are having a mid-winter summer here in FoCo. Hopefully it continues to get warmer. Today it reached almost 50degrees. There was quite a bit a wind in and right around the foothills. The flatlands were pretty calm though. Given the circumstances, I did what any cyclist is going to do on a day like today. I rode my bike! I needed to get in a "hard group ride" for todays workout. I wasn't sure if this would happen because people are still doing base miles. A few of my CSU teammates and I hit up the local Oval ride. This ride meets on campus at the CSU Oval at approximately 10:00am on Saturday's. The number of riders that show up depends on the weather. Today roughly 30 people showed up. We rolled through town and headed east. Lots of flat land riding was done for the first part of the ride. Once out of town and heading south, things started to heat up. I looked down to see speeds hovering around 27mph. It stayed like this for a majority of the ride. I got dropped about 1:30 into the ride, just outside of Windsor. Before I got dropped, my computer said we were averaging almost 24mph. Finished out the ride with a few CSU teammates. We had just a hair under 70miles in under 3:30. Even with our slower speeds and hiller route, we maintained a 20mph average. Not too shabby. Mission accomplished!

I was definitely impressed with the number of cyclist I saw out on the road today. I bet I saw over 50 riders by the time I got done. Tomorrow a few of us are heading out for another big ride. Thinking about doing the route Jeff Kerkove and I did earlier last week and head up the Poudre Canyon. Got to take advantage of the weather while I can! Here's some pictures. I wasn't able to snap any during the group ride because of the speeds.

John and Chris on the ride back to town.

A shot of the reservoir.

That's all for now. I'll have more pictures from tomorrow (hopefully). Have a great rest of the weekend!
-A