I’m not sure anybody from the STP Project team was really excited about taking a 50-mile training ride this morning through Kapowsin and Roy.
It was a bit rainy at 5:55 a.m. when we met and there’s nothing more fun than being splattered in the face for three hours.
Kenny Espinoza and Scott Wagar debated bailing on the ride before the rest of the team showed up. I suggested that we ride five miles and I’d write that we rode 50. (No, I wouldn’t really do that.)
Then there was Captain Positive, Russ Meyers.
Meyers might be the most diehard cyclists of the group. He rides at 4 a.m. three days per week, has hit speeds of 50 mph and would never let a little rain get in the way of a ride.
I thought I was a positive guy - my blood type is even “Be Positive” - but Meyers is at another level.
“Rain,” he said. “At least it want be too hot.”
A few miles into a hilly ride, Rick Beitelspacher reminded him he’d promised a flat ride.
“Hey, at least we don’t have any traffic,” Meyers said.
Every riding group needs a gung-ho, chipper guy like Meyers to keep the team going on gloomy mornings like this.