The sun. I swear it felt warmer today. It stayed in the sky longer before sundown. If I wasn’t mistaken, today was March 6, not January 6. Or maybe it was April 6? No kidding, for real, amazing kind of day. I worked a 20-miler in at lunch. The best lunch yet this week.
Living in San Diego can trick you fast. A slight of hand to the senses. I know this type of Grade-A weather won’t last forever this winter season. Plus, we still have a few months to go until the official Daylight Saving Time kicks in. I think Daylight Saving Time Day doesn’t get enough love for all it will provide. Maybe I’ve missed it in years past, but where are the Hallmark Cards? The boxes of candy? The pronouncement (other than weather man reminding us to reset clocks) that darkness just lost an hour to we, the people who ride bicycles after work. The people who schedule our lives by the temperature and season. Where’s the cycling community on this? I mean, we owe a huge debt to George Vernon Hudson.
If I were in the U.S. Congress (I’m hung-up on legislation right now), I’d introduce a special proclamation declaring Daylight Saving Time Day as something else. Something exciting. Something that encourages people to get outside and pedal. Something like National Awesome Cycling Day. Well, I know. Needs work. But I’m thinking real hard about this. I hope you will, too. I’m open to suggestions. Let’s start a formal movement. In the meantime, here’s what my home short-course one-hill climb from today looks like on Garmin Connect.
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