Wet

Riding in to work yesterday morning I saw about 7 people riding up Glen Canyon. I never see anyone riding up or down at that time of the morning. When I got into Santa Cruz there were many more bikes than usual. And not the usual crowd. No these were not the local immigrants, homeless, and students. There were people from all walks of life riding. Riding past a local bakery I noticed a sign which read "Information Station." The place was swarmed by bicyclist. I'm not even sure it is usually open at that hour. That's when it dawned on me. It must be a bike to work day. The ride home was dome on the middle chain ring again.

Today I replaced the pads on the disk brakes on my mountain bike. It wasn't that difficult. I had completely worn through both the front and rear sets of pads. I was only able to stop last weekend because there was a little of the pad left on the front. In the back it was all shiny metal. I am a little concerned I may have scored the rotors. After all, last weekend the front got hot enough to melt the pad retention springs...

Rode into work again today. I managed to make it all the way home on the middle chain ring up front. I'm proud of this.

I rode into work today, and then home. Lots of climbing. I'm tired tonight.