Killer work-out

Being a Saturday, it is a bike riding day cold or shine. When it rains we don't go because you can't see anything!!  We came back around 1 am last night just so we could wake up at 9. Actually, I usually don't have a problem to wake up early but Riccardo in the other hand thinks highly on sleeping until 10:30 a.m. or 11 a.m. but when we go on our little bike adventures they are the exception to the rule. Anyway so we planned to  leave by 10 a.m. after having a high energy breakfast, egg sandwiches. They were pretty good I have to say.
We always decide where we will go when we get on our bikes, there's the usual Maddalena or new choices that Riccardo comes up with randomly. Well this time we went for the new way. We had never done this one together, he had done this a few years back with his friend Sergio. Oh boy! I wish I would have known what I was getting myself into. We started with an 8 km "flat" start. It was relatively flat to what came next. I'm not sure on the distance of the uphill part but what I know was that every second from the start seemed like eternity. After about one hour of going uphill, we finally arrived to a flat area and we decided to stop there and come back home. The return was hard even if we took less than a third of the time of the way there but we were so tired that we just wanted a warm shower because it was so cold. Thank God we took all of our winter outerwear!! Gloves, long pants, long sleeves and heavy wind jackets.
After arriving home and taking showers, we had lunch. Riccardo's parents were so nice to make us lunch. I'm pretty sure we looked so bad and tired after this 3 hour workout and that was the reason they decided to do that.  We had chicken on the grill with salad. We rested a bit and Riccardo ended up falling asleep on the couch watching TV. Me in the other hand made a cake to thank Riccardo's parents for making us lunch. After having such a good meal I had energy again. While the cake was in the oven, we got ready so that when the cake was done, we could go to a bike shop to look at some tires. When we left home at around 5, it started raining like the weather man had said. We went to the store and watched Milan play at the bar with a pirlo. When the game was over, we went to a Tissue Party. One friend of the bunch collects tissue packages. He makes parties once he reached a certain number. His collection is now made up of 2300 tissue packages!!!! It's amazing how many he has and the variety!! Around midnight all the invitees came downtown. It wasn't so hard finding a parking space because it was still raining. Even if it was raining there were quite a lot of people downtown for a rainy night at least.
The night finished and when we came home and I wrapped my knees with bandages and some icy-hot because they were just killing me after bike riding.
Hoping to feel better tomorrow and walk with no pain.