It’s been an awesome week at The Cycling House! With the weather man telling us that rain was inevitable we were preparing for the worst. We aren’t use to rainy weather down here in Tucson, AZ so we had to re-think our rides a little bit and actually found ourselves stressing about the thought of putting on shoe covers, jackets, and hats to go riding. The weather was wild and it turned out to be one of the best weeks of riding that we’ve had so far this year.
It’s rained so hard every night which made it a little scary to wake up in the morning and look out the window to see what the day would bring. But much to our surprise, everyday except for yesterday we woke up to sunny weather! Even yesterday it was spotty but we never got rained on once during a ride which we feel was a huge success given the forecast. The wind has played a bit of a factor but we’ve capitalized on that with practicing on riding in a group in the wind and getting riders more comfortable with knowing where to be.
We’ve had the pleasure of meeting some really great folks this past week. Kevin and Christi escaped grey Seattle weather for a few days. Graham, Steve and Jordan all migrated south from Toronto. Frank flew in from IL, Milt front Boise, ID, and Lenny made the trip from New York. Great crew!
Mt. Lemmon is blanketed with snow right now with the top of the mountain having 4 feet of the white stuff! The road is actually closed at the base until they clear the path and things warm up a bit. It’s likely that they will open the road in the next day or two which will allow riding up to at least Windy Point at mile 14 if not higher. Epic!
