Went to the new fall colors after today's ride too!

Fumbling through a few sections of the Sunday morning paper I notice there is more sun out than I expected Sunday morning. So I went right to the laptop to dial me up some weather radar. Yes! The radar looked clear. Out I went for some Sunday morning exercise.

I had real solid 26 miles with good legs today. The color is great, although I have a 'leaves' story from the ride back.

In Greenfield Park where they put that new section of path in this summer the canopy of trees is like a spectacular golden shower. But there are so many leaves on the path that you can not even SEE the path...it's just one big mess of leaves....WET leaves at that.

I got through it OK on the way out, but on the way home I suddenly realized the ride was bumpy. Oops, I had drifted off the path and onto the ground on the right side. I figured I had one shot to get this right and the chances of jumping back onto the path onto wet leaves ending well for me seemed slim.

I picked a spot and sort of bunny-jumped it back. All was fine and I kept going after a few tense moments there.

The wind was a pest heading down for the front half of the ride, but so be it. I got back in time to take a hot shower and be in place for what turned out to be a pretty dull Packers' game. In fact, I headed back outside by the fourth quarter for a nice drive to Kopps in the Porsche. Cookies and Cream in a dish. Now that's clean livin'.

 

Was pedaling through this same area, hit a patch of wet leaves and broke collarbone and six bones in right leg and got a concussion. Luckily, I missed the loser's game witht he Vikings.