Anyone who has spent much time on a bike has probably gotten the calf mark. Usually it is a greasy outline of the large chainring. I guess I spent a lot of time in the big gears today, because I got the outlines of the chain links.
Today was a pretty hard day of riding. It was the Cache Gran Fondo a 104 mile ride through Utah and Idaho. The weather was beautiful, it was overcast so it didn’t get too hot and the company was, as always, pretty awesome as well. The second half of the ride is where things got difficult. During the climb through the canyon we got a stiff headwind that became a stiff headwind descending a climbing descent. Yes, I mean that good parts of the descent weren’t just bombing downhill, they actually went back up. And the wind didn’t stop until the ride was over.
The wind was better than a 95 degree day, but it did make it a pretty tough 7 hours on the bike. I’m just fortunate I have such good people to ride with. To be honest, today’s ride makes me a little nervous about LOTOJA, which is about 2 months away. I guess I need to do a lot more riding between now and then.