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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: Riding through the years.
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2025 10:01:03 -0600
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On 1/4/2025 6:12 PM, Tom Kunich wrote:
> I ride almost 4 times a week and until recently with a fair sized group.
> Now there are about 6 of us that ride together on and off. But a lot of my
> riding now is solo. This largely because the group is aging and losing the
> ability to do the rides that I still do. Saturday rides are easy rides but
> on the way out to the coffee stop, they ride harder than I care to, and
> then on the return trips they are riding a lot slower having burned
> themselve out.
> 
> Perhaps one of them is capable of doing my North Palomares route but if he
> did he would drop me like a stone since he is 20 years younger than me.
> And he would freeze to death at the top waiting for me. So the group id
> sging out from under me. Or too young snd too fast to ride at my speed.

Four degrees at dawn today. I skipped; too damned cold.

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