Biking road kill...

I'm so sick of cycling in colder weather. Today it was 6 C and with windchill felt like -2 C. I did my long bike ride today and wasn't looking forward to it. I made myself an Easter brunch  and pushed my self out the door around 2:30 pm and did an out an back. The first half was right into the wind and I decided that I was going to do the most challenging hills around me. The hills I did was Bell School Line, Sixth Line and the back side of Appleby line. I didn't attack them. My goal was to try and keep my heart rate under 140 bpm which is near impossible. The interesting thing about doing big hills is that the smaller ones seem much easier. This year I'm going to try and at least do one big hill on every ride.

I think the positioning on my bike is causing my back and foot problems. I stopped during the ride and raised the seat height, hoping that will take pressure off the ball of my foot. It seems better. I'm also going back to the bike shop to have them look at my positioning on the bike. After every ride my upper back is hurting. I'm also finding that when I hit bumps it's hard to keep my hands on the handlebars. It's a little scary because I lack the control I'm used to and I'm afraid I'm going to wipe out. I've already had more close calls in the past month than I've ever had all time. 

It finally happened, a squirrel ran across the road and I ran over it with my front wheel. It wasn't a full grown squirrel and it happened so fast I didn't have time to react. I just kept my hands on my handlebars and focused on keeping the wheel straight. When the front wheel went over it, all I could hear was a crunch sound. I think it was the head or neck. Afterwards I stopped and went back to see if it was on the road and I was going to take a picture of it, but I couldn't find it. I figured it limped back into the bush to die. I was going fairly fast down a hill and I'm glad I didn't wipe out. 

Alice and I were tired today and not motivated to do much. We were going to have a Roast for Easter dinner but I told Alice not to bother. She was tired and I wasn't that hungry so we decided to go out for dinner instead. We've never eaten Easter dinner at a restaurant before. That is the tough part of moving to a new place with no family, special occasions aren't that special. We went to the Olive Press and the food was good but I felt like a bit of a loser going to a restaurant for Easter dinner. Reid also made a video for YouTube and is taking requests to build movie props. His account is FanBoyStudios.

Long Bike - 3:00:20 / 84.14 km /28.5 kph 

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