I wanted to ride with my sons at Adams so we loaded up all the bikes. A friend of my sons came also. Here we were with 2 people who ride 50 to 60 miles at a time and at speeds I could only dream of.
My sons bike weights only about 9 pounds, seems so light compared to the 24 pounds my bike weighs. But then I didn't pay almost 3000 for mine either.
It was a beautiful day but very windy. Bad wind. Wind is a bicycle riders enemy. My legs have lost the muscles from last year and I struggled at first and wondered if I would even be able to do this easy 8 mile ride. Wow. I need to get back in shape. Had to take my asthma medicine also which I had forgot about all winter. But once I loosened up it went better. It really doesn't take long to get back to riding. We didn't do near the speed we are used to and the boys rode around twice to our once. Fast also, oh to be young again.
It smells so good out there with all the wild flowers and wild roses blooming.
The trail was in pretty good shape and I only had to move about 2 branches.
My oldest has lost 50+ pounds and is doing really heavy work as a waste management specialist so had no trouble outriding us old folks also using one of his brothers bikes.
It was later in the day and the snakes were all over the trail sunning themselves. Little gardener snakes that I almost hit a couple of times, I love snakes so didn't want to ride over them.
By the time we got to the overlook even Rick was regretting taking the winter off.
I was my usual sweating red self, happy though.
We stayed for awhile at the overlook and rested and then off we went to make our way back to the park.
So here it is the next day and I feel great, no sore muscles and ready to go again. I know from last year that each ride gets easier and I have trails to hit and places yet to explore.
