We woke up to thunder and lightening on Sunday morning.  The town of Chestermere was under water with 100’s of residents affected by basement flooding.  In Calgary though – we were reasonably dry but with threatening skies.  The plan was to meet for a long ride west of Calgary at 8:30am.  I got a couple of bail out emails and texts (one real bail out…like basement bailing) which was completely reasonable given the morning – but – I had to go just in case anyone showed up.  I mean – I did schedule the ride – so was obligated to be there to meet everyone (anyone?).  For the record, IF no one showed up – I was perfectly willing to bail myself… I mean… pancakes and coffee at home was looking pretty inviting. However, there’s nothing like a group of people with a goal event and some training rides to accomplish to bring out the crazy folks.  Evidently it wasn’t raining at their homes either!

Sure enough, we had 7 riders and not only did we start the ride but we got rained on, dried out, got rained on again, dried out… and so on.  Eventually the sun came out and the day finished a whole lot nicer than it started.  For the others – there’s no shame in being sane.  There’ll be another day to ride.  For us – we got ‘er done!  Thanks Princesses (and Prince Mike behind the camera).  Good work out there!

LiveSplendidly!