Saturday's 58+ degree day spurred COMOtion team members to get out of the house and start the annual Front Range ritual of hitting the open roads and bike trails of Jefferson County. Considered by most to be "base mile building", everyone enjoyed being outside with team members after tolerating holiday relatives and hectic year end travel schedules.
About a dozen racers met at the YETI factory and assembled predictably, 10 minutes later than the scheduled 11:30 am start time. Still better than some groups I ride with.
Racers from as far away as Silverthorn traveled the Eisenhower Tunnel backwards to be in the "Low Country" on a Saturday morning in January.
The group started a warmup lap running eastward along Rooney Road, south on Alameda, up and over Hogback Ridge and back on to the Hwy. 6 bike path. 
Obvious was the other competing race teams we met along the ride. Feedback Sports, Adventure Racing, Vitamin Cottage and Rocky Mountain Racing jerseys were plentiful along the routes funneling to Lookout Mountain.
The peleton split at the base of Lookout for individual training goals (glucose check and feed time for me) and knocked out the year's first group ride. Even the COMOtion Team owner and grand wizard Stephen Lechner showed for the inaugural event. It's going to be a good year.
