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Friday, February 12, 2010

Lunch Break


BT update! Team Tick gets sweet air in the Faux Blizzard!
Got the text at noon during the storm - about the same time plows were being called to action.. .. all I had to see was "Ride". It was on. One quick call to the office expressing an emergency lunchtime situation and I was free!
Met The Ghost for some foot warmers and we were off! Deep wet snow made for slow going but it was too much fun to turn back. We headed off to Grace Estate ducking under trees that had bowed down under the weight of the snow.
I must have fallen 10 times or so but didn't care. It was a complete laugh fest! We headed toward Cedar Point up to the bluffs. The small hills that had become so manageable in the past now loomed ahead of me like the Himalayas. Where oh where was my Sherpa?? The Ghost of course had disappeared at this point, as he tends to do. I couldn't blame him - who wants to stand around in the snow and wait - I knew he was floating around the woods somewhere. Just me and Brian now on the bluffs with sand colored snow and winds full of grit slashing at my face. I had to climb with my head turned to the woods and hope to remain vertical. I hoped Brian wasn't getting scratched by the wind - but plod on we did. I imagined this being some kind of insane Navy Seals test....
Finally at the apex of mount Cedar Point! Thank God - downhill (sorta) now.
I managed to find the Ghost - actually he turned back to find me and we headed south toward the roads feeling like the only people on earth to witness the great tempest in the woods - Totally EPIC!!
The only sound heard was the snow crunching beneath our tires, oh and perhaps "Dude! I totally just wrecked on that downhill" and "woo to that hoo"
Back at my Desk a mere two hours later - I no longer think that a lunch break is overrated!
Until the next storm.....