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First bike ride of the year
May. 10th, 2008 09:24 pmWe did our first bicycle ride of the year today; it was finally warm enough, not raining, AND neither Carole nor I had to put in hours at work on the weekend.
We drove in to Carole's office in Williston, left the car there, and biked six miles to our dive shop on the Burlington waterfront -- which, if you know the area, means going down one heck of a steep hill toward the end. Since every fifty yards there was another cross street, we did a lot of "accelerate downhill, WHOA STOP, accelerate downhill, WHOA STOP" until we were finally there. Once there we bought a new pair of dive boots to replace the ones Carole somehow managed to return from Florida without, then poked around the waterfront for a while before retracing our path back up the hill. Carole insisted she be rewarded with a stop at Al's French Frys in South Burlington; she got the strawberry shortcake and I had a cone of their orange soft serve ("creemee", in Vermont parlance) dipped in their butterscotch dip. Then we went on back to the office and put our bikes back on the car and so to home. Round trip, 13.6 miles. Not much in serious biking terms but it was a nice little ride anyway. Hopefully it'll be the first of many more.
We drove in to Carole's office in Williston, left the car there, and biked six miles to our dive shop on the Burlington waterfront -- which, if you know the area, means going down one heck of a steep hill toward the end. Since every fifty yards there was another cross street, we did a lot of "accelerate downhill, WHOA STOP, accelerate downhill, WHOA STOP" until we were finally there. Once there we bought a new pair of dive boots to replace the ones Carole somehow managed to return from Florida without, then poked around the waterfront for a while before retracing our path back up the hill. Carole insisted she be rewarded with a stop at Al's French Frys in South Burlington; she got the strawberry shortcake and I had a cone of their orange soft serve ("creemee", in Vermont parlance) dipped in their butterscotch dip. Then we went on back to the office and put our bikes back on the car and so to home. Round trip, 13.6 miles. Not much in serious biking terms but it was a nice little ride anyway. Hopefully it'll be the first of many more.
