Music from the Heavens

I woke up kinda of slow today and I am glad. My SO was wanting a Wii and was planning on going to wait in line to get one. I wasn't really into that so I told her that I would meet up later. Especially since she had beed up and going already for 1-2 hrs. As I was sitting drinking my coffee, I heard the music from the heavens. I saw the sun coming up. I was shock and had to check the weather for the day. The weather said that it was going to be partly cloudy and the temperatures were going to be in the 60s in the afternoon. So an email was sent out to the friends for a ride and I began preparing for the ride. I called the SO and told her that I would be later in meeting up. Soon I was talking to my friends and the ride was on. The ride had been moved up in time from what I was looking for but I was not going to miss it.

I went down to meet up with the SO for a bit and to be nice, I carried her a coffee. It was still cold so I thought it be a nice gesture since she had been out there for 3+ hrs. I waited until they open the doors and she had the bad luck that she didn't get the voucher for the Wii. At that point, I told her that I wasn't going to be around at lunch. She was ok. She went to try other places but was out of luck.

I started the ride feeling pretty good. I went out with a friend and his SO. My friend had just got a new bike and it is really pimp. I think he is really stoked about it too. We started out on a easy stretch of road and the ride was suppose to be nice and easy. As we started coming back on the first stretch, I learned a new meaning of easy. I don't know what happen but at one point, my friend told me to go after someone that just past us. I was just planning on sitting in the group so I wouldn't wear my self out. A few minutes later, the group picked up speed and passed the guy. They joked about it as a stress reliever but on the most part it never slowed down afterwards. During one of the hills, I was climbing as the lead and my friend came up on my side like there was no difficulty in the hill and goes "What is your power now?". I told him my power and he greatly discourage me at the time. We kept a pretty strong pace the rest of the trip through the hill country. I know that I was not eating and drinking correctly and I was physically falling off. As we headed back to the first stretch to finish up the ride, the SO said what is the deal with picking up speed on the hills. I think the ride was starting to work on her too. I finished up the ride with about 45 miles and felt spanked. It was definitely a good ride though. I had a average power of 175 watts with a max of 691 watts.

By the way, my friend said lance was lying. It was definitely about the bike.