Cold Hands

Well it's no surprise to anyone that it gets very cold out Calliope way, well almost.....Tannum coffee club at 5:45am and the G turns up and proceeds to sledge Mike and I for having some cold protection on our boots and for wearing winter gloves. The G had no gloves on at all! It wasn't long before there was a strange noise coming from behind where the G had positioned himself. It sort of sounded like a cat being strangled and got worse the colder it got. It was a little light by the time we were near Wurdong so I turned and saw the G with a red face with matching hands, low and behold I found the source of the strange noise, it was hard not to laugh so I just laughed ;-) If you don't know the G he's a bit of a slow learner :-)
We said goodbye to Mike near the crossroads as he had some prior commitments he had to get back for. By the time cross roads appeared the G had dropped back a little, I don't think he could move his fingers from the bars to change gears, I almost felt sorry for him lol.
At Calliope Daryl, The Fox, Robin, Wentzel, Schalk, Scotty, the G and yours truly had a quick ride brief after I was given a heads up on some potholes the day before from a semi reliable source.....which turned out to be accurate. After the quick chat and a laugh at the G's hands we headed off into the cold; it was 3.5 degrees down on the flats.....The pace was solid at around 30 and went smoothly until Schalk and Wentzel took it easy and did their own thing. Robin hadn't been in a group since her get off but she was sitting right in the middle of the group more often then not and looked very solid.
First railway crossing and you wouldn't hear about it, but the G's rear water bottles ejected and fell in the middle of the road....I don't think the G has ever gone over that crossing and not lost at least 1 bottle.....At the second crossing the G headed for home while the rest of us just settled in and made our way to Nagoorin. We had a good spell at Nagoorin and enjoyed the sun before heading back to Calliope at a firm pace. Robin held on the whole way and didn't look in too much distress at the coffee shop. I feel for any women going up against her at the 70.3 next weekend ;-)
The group rode well together to make sure everyone got back to the coffee shop at the same time for a well earned caffeine injection.