Witnessing Heroics On the Tierra Bella – BionicOldGuy

Every year my bike membership, Almaden Cycle Touring Membership, places on the Tierra Bella Bicycle Tour, yesterday being the forty fifth annual model. The climate round right here has been excellent these days, springlike and sunny. Till yesterday, when Mom Nature determined to have chilly rain all day. I used to be volunteering on the Gilroy Sizzling Springs relaxation cease, which CalFire lets us placed on at their hearth station method up on Gilroy Sizzling Springs Highway. This distant cease is reached solely by riders who do both the 74 mile (120 km) or 100 mile (161 km) routes. As we had been establishing within the rain within the early morning, I believed to myself this was an train in futility as we’d most likely don’t have any prospects! I couldn’t have been extra improper, as not less than 50 intrepid souls fought their method out our method within the pouring rain. Luckily we had propane heaters and scorching drinks, and so they might heat themselves for some time earlier than having to return out into it. We gave out loads of plastic gloves as a result of their bicycling rain gloves had been no match for this climate. I used to be impressed by the show of toughness by all these women and men, and delighted to have the ability to assist out a bit.