Herb Terns rides his bike through southern Saratoga County.

Sometimes, I question my decisions. Other times, I have someone who questions them for me.

“You do know,” my wife, Gillian, said as I loaded my mountain bike in the car, “it’s going to be 95 degrees today.”

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“There will be a breeze on the bike,” I replied and possibly actually believed.

In triathlon language, a “brick” is when you do two different disciplines in one workout, like bike and run. It wasn’t necessarily the ideal day for this decision, but if you wait for the perfect conditions, you’ll end up wasting too much of your life.

An investment of roughly 60 miles of driving would bring me to either Lake George, one of the most beautiful lakes in the country, or Wilmington, Vermont. There were no bad options and I decided on the “Hoot, Toot and........

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