"Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride." -- John F. KennedyI got on the bike this afternoon and took a short shake-down ride out to the Nashua River Rail Trail today. It's been 3 months (just about to the day) since I was last out on the bike, and I have to say it felt really good to be out on the road. The R40 was in pretty good shape for being neglected for 3 months: just sticky shifter and brake cables. I was the only thing that was "rusty".
The ride was just a quick 16 mile "out-n-back" to the rail trail. I'd hoped to ride up the trail a little ways, but I was overly optimistic: there were still large stretches of the rail trail that were covered in snow -- unridable (at least for me). So, I noodled around the backroads from Ayer back to Littleton, soaking up the afternoon sun and trying to stretch out my legs a little. Not my biggest ride. Not my fastest ride. But it was a such a great feeling to be out on the bike with the wind in my face again, I'll count it as a superlative start as my first ride of 2011.
Hopefully I'll be back to biking to work again this next week.
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