I haven’t biked with a group of people in a long time.

I generally biked for distance or for speed.  Basically as hard and as fast as I can.  Which probably isn’t good for my legs in the long run.  So I joined Meetup.com and went for a ride with people yesterday.

They met up 9 miles from my apartment and biked slowly for 14 miles or so.  Basically you bike out for 40 minutes and back.  So I biked the whole way talking to a few people.  I had a long talk with a 10 year old on the ride about Garfield.  Garfield is his favorite cartoon character.  I then went out for dinner with them at a bar/pub around the corner from where me met.

So yeah, a nice slow ride.  Felt almost like slacking.  I think this summer I’d bike to wherever we meet, go for the 14 or so mile bike ride, and bike back to the apartment to throw a little more distance in.  But yeah, leisurely bike riding, I’m down for that once in a while.  It felt good.

Strangely enough, as much as I love my cyclocross bike, I’ve been eyeing road bikes too.

That’s a ways off though.

By the way, since buying my new bike the first week of April, I’ve bike over 450 miles.  Not too bad.