Autumn

09-10-2004, 03:40 PM

You know its coming, faster and faster every day.

It starts by just wearing a light jacket in the morning. Riding in the first
fall rains. Putting the fenders and lights back on the bike. The last
official club event of the year. The first ride where your fingers turn numb
and you realize you need to go to the full-finger gloves. The first ride
where your legs are really, really cold, and you realize it's time to get
out the tights. Wearing a wool shirt as an outer layer -- then a wool shirt
with a fleece vest. The first day where you ride to work the entire ride in
the dark -- and all the way home in the dark, too. Booties on the day it
rains hard.

Then it's November. It rains, and rains, and rains. High of 43, low of 41,
the paper says, day after day. Endless rain, darkness, and a little voice in
your head says, "Mexico...Mexico...Mexico..."

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Warm Regards,

Claire Petersky
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