Things I remembered I missed while riding my bike.

This morning I was delaying going on my ride, inventing fake reasons why I would do it later. Yesterday I did the same thing but I delayed it to the point where I never did it at all. I didn't want that to happen again so I decided to just get on my bike and ride around the neighborhood for a while. I didn't want to get too far away from my house as one of the reasons that I was inventing ("it was going to rain") was actually based in fact.

During this ride I realized there were a whole bunch of things that I missed while riding. Thought I'd jot a few down and read this when I find myself procrastinating yet again.

Good things:

• Fresh asphalt.
• Cue markings for bike rides that were done before.
• Passing one of those portable speed sensors that say speed limit/your speed and it shows you are going faster than you think.
• The head nod given and received for/by riders going in the opposite direction.
• Riding a road that you never had ridden before.
• Climbing a hill as others bomb down it going the other way. 
• Having people working on their lawn say good morning as you ride by.
• The sound of a woodpecker.
• Thinking of quotes from Caddyshack as you ride past a golf course.
• Church bells.
• Not getting rained on even though the ground is wet during parts of your ride.

Bad things:

• Broken beer bottles on the side of the road. The people that put them there should be mandated to drink only crappy canned beer for life.
• Old people cutting you off with their car, oblivious to their surroundings.
• Pot holes.
• The smell of road kill.
• Riding over an acorn and having it shoot out at a speed which approaches the sound barrier.
• Dogs barking from inside a car that passes you.
• Puddles.
• Leaves and twigs while on a road bike (note this goes to the good thing category on a mountain or cross bike).

To be categorized things:

• The sting of sweat dropping into your eye.

Got any to add?