Bike Season

I went on my first twenty-miler of the season today. I took the W&OD from my house out to Reston and back.

Highlights:

• two tandems in a row (still need to try one out)
• someone left a stuffed animal on one of the benches and every one thought it was a real hedgehog
• keeping up with the guy in the orange jersey (who was hauling ass) for three miles
• being outside
• seeing a dog being towed in one of those bike trailer thingies for kids
• sweating
  
• seeing a kid I had seen before riding with his dad taking a nap in his dad's lap at one of the rest-stations
• dogs and dogs and dogs and dogs
• kids and kids and kids and kids
• hearing all the frogs and creepy things in the swampy area between Vienna and Reston
  
• calling Aaron and telling him I was doing a twenty-miler
• not getting hit by a car
• using the orange lenses in my sunglasses since it was overcast--wow, helps a lot.
  
• not falling off my bike and/or forgetting I'm snapped in (still getting used to being clipless)
• feeling like I had a great workout
  

This evening I watched The Graduate. Excellent.