27 November 2007

Weekday morning UCSC loop

It wasn't as cold as it had been the last few mornings, and, despite lots of clouds, it was sunny. Still, I put on leg warmers, but didn't feel any need to wear gloves, though I would have gotten them had it been cold as I went out the door. It had been six days since the last time I did this loop, and it was windy then, but this time the air was pretty still.

Just after the right-hander on the descent on the first time down, there was a sign in the bike lane saying that it was closed ahead. A little farther along, cones marked off a stretch of the bike lane as off limits. The next time around, there were more cones and a truck sitting on the side of the road. The third time around, the truck was slowing going down the bike lane, laying cones as it went. By then, the cones stretched from just before the right-hander down a ways. The last time around, there were just the cones and the sign.