Today I joined hundreds of other bike riders in the LiveStrong Challenge Philadelphia. I signed up for the 100 mile bike ride but this year I concentrated my training on triathlons rather then long bike rides so I decided to do one of the shorter rides. Just like I did for last years LiveStrong Challenge, I showed up for the bike ride with optimism for a bright and sunny day. I put on the sunscreen, donned the sunglasses, left my rain jacket in the car and just like last year it rained. It started raining at mile 12.5 and then the skies opened up at mile 13.5. Some riders immediately turned back but I continued on and finished the 45 mile bike ride in 3 hours.
I was riding with another guy and we were just casually talking about this that and the other when he said this would be the last bike ride on these tires. Not more then 5 minutes later he asked if his rear tire was going flat. The moral of the story, when you're on a bike ride, never tempt fate by talking about rain, flats or crashes.
This was the first time I used my gel flask on a bike ride. I put two packets of gel in the flask and topped off the flask with water, it was just the right consistency to easily flow from the nozzle.
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