blue sky

yesterday the sky had that color i have only noticed here in colorado. it was the perfect day to do my longest ride in a few years, it was all quality though, 6 hours about 170km. really good work, the kind of work that pays off later on in the season. looking up a few times to see what the cloudless sky looked like was what made the ride better and better. good company the whole way, a few hills and plenty of pace in the middle part of the ride. tom and i caught the group just on the north edge of boulder and rolled with them to the lake of tom's name. fast but manageable. saw a few superstars in the bunch, chatted a bit at 60 km an hour before it got quiet to ramp up the pace, a few turns on the front in the wind and then i exited as i still had a few hours to ride and didn't want to limp the rest of the way back. plenty warm the whole way, overdressed again, good to be warm and a bit sticky, i sure did smell bad when i finished. i can dream the lawyer cheney shot had shot back at him, that would have been great! a dead heart attack man, how great a thought.