About this thing called Spring

[KayakCyndi]

I want Spring. Wait. No. I NEED Spring. And looking at the forecast we’re at least a week or more off. But that isn’t going to stop me from dreaming — dreaming about sunshine, warm breezes and picnics. Wait … I have an idea. WE SHOULD GO FOR A BIKE RIDE!

So here is the plan. I’m going to keep an eye on the weather and when I see a day in, I hope, the next few weeks where we flirt with 70 degrees, I’m going for a bike ride. A bike ride during lunch, in real sunshine, around the Mall. I’m not going to rush and I’m going to picnic. And you should come too!

The plan will be to meet at the CABI station at Smithsonian around 12:15pm. Bring your lunch. We’ll circle the Mall, maybe head to Haines Point, stop for our picnic and then head back to the office. I’m guessing we’ll be out more than an hour but surely the powers that be understand that a 70 degree day after this winter warrants a long lunch! Who knows, if we time it right, this ride might even coincide with the Cherry Blossoms.

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Stay tuned for details!

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[cyclingfool]

@rcannon100 86034 wrote:

I’m confused???

What are we suppose to do between coffee and lunch???

@rcannon100 86450 wrote:

If I dont see you in tourist land, I will try to meet you at WWI.

(still at FCCII)

Looks like you found a solution to your own conundrum.

[ShawnoftheDread]

^^ELITE coffee clubbing.^^

[cvcalhoun]

I’m at the Smithsonian CaBi station, but don’t see anyone. Where are you?

[KayakCyndi]

@cvcalhoun 86474 wrote:

I’m at the Smithsonian CaBi station, but don’t see anyone. Where are you?

DC World War One memorial.

[baiskeli]

Couldn’t make it today – had to go for a second round of antibiotics. Next time.

[KayakCyndi]

That was fun!

[cyclingfool]

Nice meeting everybody there! I’d only met Arlingtonrider before. That was fun. I hope we do it again soon, even if it’s through a thread called “About this goddamn thing called Summer”.

The after-ride was nice, too. Cracking pace. Motorpaced by the NPS maintenance truck to start, and then I think we got all the way up to 11 mph or so somewhere around 20th Street coming back down Constitution. That was a hard ride.

[drevil]

Great meeting everybody. Jo and I had fun. Cheers!

-rickyd

Monumental Picnic Lunch by bundokbiker, on Flickr

[vvill]

Everyone looks… different. Hope to make one of these sometime!

[cvcalhoun]

Sorry I missed most of it. Coming from Bethesda, the timing is hard to predict. And today I got caught in a crowd of tourists on the Mall, and must have arrived at the Smithsonian CaBi just after you guys left. And by the time I figured out where you’d gone and arrived there, you were just leaving.

[drevil]

@vvill 86546 wrote:

Everyone looks… different. Hope to make one of these sometime!

Yup, much less Lycra than the Coffee Club

[rcannon100]

@drevil 86552 wrote:

Yup, much less Lycra than the Coffee Club

Well, Matt had his blue jeans on.

[KayakCyndi]

@rcannon100 86558 wrote:

Well, Matt had his blue jeans on.

And I wore a skirt. We’re also convinced that Shawn wears his cycling cap at his desk.

[KLizotte]

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It was great meeting everyone. Cyndi, thanks so much for organizing and bringing cookies! Whoever would have guessed the WWI memorial would be so popular?! :rolleyes:

[vvill]

@drevil 86552 wrote:

Yup, much less Lycra than the Coffee Club

FCC at Swing’s usually doesn’t have that much lycra actually! Only when the convoys arrive.

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