gimbel’s ride 2008.4.12
a beautiful day for a ride, but not nearly as beautiful as my clean shaven limbs. it took me forever to rid of my sasquatch legs of all follicles accumulated over the winter. not too shabby for an asian man.
the pace heated up right after the split thanks to the die hard boys returning from their early morning long ride. jesse strung us out and jordan, jp, ryan, etc. followed through and set a hard tempo to break the pack on the ibm hill.
we chased for a little while and at one point actually bridged up to them on 433 but soon a gap mysteriously opened up again. with only few guys willing to do the work, it was hard to organize a chase. few miles later some of the boys were brought back to us leaving only jp and ryan in the escape group.
they must’ve been hauling ass too. we lost sight of them pretty quickly. by the top of the d-whammy, no one showed interest in bringing them back.
the rest of the ride was pretty mild. garry, still not quite back to his form after a long absence, put in a lot of work to keep the pace respectable and vincent and will tried to keep the ride animated with strong a strong first sprint.
my legs felt pretty decent actually. warm weather does wonders for me. that nagging pain on my left knee felt muted and my back was also holding up on its own without screaming as it usually does half way into the ride.
i had thought about jumping on the con ed hill but chickened out at the last minute. with nothing left to do, i decided to string out the field on the 1st hump after chasing down few suicide jumpers.
no cramps, no debilitating pains… enough to call it a good day. again, it’s all about small victories at this point.
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