Easy Riders Today

Abby and I rode the neighborhood's easy roads today, just enjoying the sun and the wind and being on the saddle. It can't all be about heart rate monitors and average miles per hour on the cycling computer. Sometimes it's got to be about coasting downhill and saying "Whee!"

But I do have 19 miles on the week so far. At least another ride, too, on Friday, before Saturday's climbing in the Hill Country.

We coasted past a couple of grade schools, just ready to let the kids out. Tomorrow afternoon they'll say "Whee!" when they get out for a four-day "Spring Holiday" weekend. Yeah, spring holiday, something a bit more even-handed than saying "Easter" on the school calendar.

I don't begrudge the kids a minute of it. When I was in grade school we had two holidays in February to celebrate Washington and Lincoln. Now it's Presidents' Day, just one.