Rainy Adventure on Ch. Crk.: 27 miles at 15.5mph

I road to the canal and got three grains of sand in my eyes: 6 miles
I went home and got my goggles and headed to Forest street to go down
to the cherry creek and head downtown.

I stopped at REI to look at bikes. I talked to a mechanic about the crank on my
Raliegh that I suspect of ticking. It was very, very cool. He showed me the parts
and how the tools are used to pull it apart in case it is the crank that is making
noise. We discussed compact double vs triple vs SRAM Apex and SRAM Rival.
He knew what the climb to Ward was like and that if I'm riding the triple
from Avon to Evergreen I would want as low a gear as I could get: the SRAM.
Finally, and perhaps most usefully was a shared realization that triples are
hard to find and SRAM usually comes on carbon frames.

It rained on the way home and I discovered that my wind jacket is distinctly
NOT a rain jacket. Mandy picked me up at the mall.