Finally we found some time to ride.

Gardening, and our kitchen cleaning and painting...  which is endless, so we stopped.
Let's ride a bicycle!  My goodness, we haven't biked for 3 days!!

We did the long up-slop sprint as long as my legs could continue, and went back down.

My legs were OK enough, my breathing was not great but good enough. But my butt was hurting!  I couldn't believe it.  Only three days no ride made my butt muscle smashed and hurt???  Did I gain? Not much I thought.  Working made me stressed some...

OK.  I will watch out what I'm eating.

I haven't had butt pain for a long time before, so this is  a little shocking.

Sunny after rain, hail & rainbow

Yesterday we got quite a good amount of rain, then loud thunder, then hail, and we saw an amazingly thick rainbow over our garden fence.  Believed it might have been a good sign!

The hail

and the rainbow. 

Would you like to sing?  Somewhere over the rainbow



Today it was a sunny day so that mini rose came back to bloom happily.

And we had a good ride happily too!

I felt like lifting up my saddle more, so did.  And practiced stopping and starting again with the new height so that I wouldn't fall accidentally.  It took some time to get used to it, but I finally could do well.

Cool morning ride!

It was 65F.  We started riding bicycle about 8:15 am this morning.  The air was quite chilly, and it reminded me to order full bicycle gloves. The tips of my fingers were cold for a while.

Well, the air was clean and fresh.  I really enjoyed the morning ride.  

My right foot toes were getting cramped at the end, but I came back OK.  A comfortable 20 miles ride!

We hit slump.

We need to find the way to ride not to get tired too much. I can't get faster, or ride longer any more.  
 
When you are young, practice will bring a result that you are getting stronger, better, faster.. etc.  I can't see such a wonderful result any more.  Recently the more practice, the more getting tired, slower, and easier to get pain for me.
Maybe because I'm having a harder time to sleep.  I wonder ....

Anyway we rode at least on our community roads to keep up with yesterday.  Sep. 30th.

At least  the temperature got much more comfortable nowadays.  And it was fun to use my homemade rear seat trunk, no pouch around my waist was very comfortable!

So I decided to make his rear seat trunk too.  Fortunately we have an ice chest with a color just right for his bicycle.  
Voila!

He is happy with that.
So we had a good ride together today.

We were going to ride just 5 miles, but we noticed that we were fine if we pedal slowly.
 

Knee & Elbow Pads

We had a cool and nice morning today.  So I rode very happily with humming and singing.  

I felt that I could ride more to 15 miles, but I controlled myself not to do.  Because I didn't want to get any pain later.  

At last my knee & elbow Pads were delivered this afternoon!  So even though I was a little tired after the morning cycling, I had to ride again to try them. 

Knee pads,

and elbow pads. 

They are comfortable and trustworthy.  And I felt secure with them to practice in our garden.

Mr. Whp was happily riding around here and there in our garden today again!  I will do like that in the future, but a little by little.

Made a plan for trip, but ...

Found the easiest way to go grocery shopping.  If we can do it, I will feel more useful.  But... felt tired to try riding a road without bike lane and some traffic.

A comfortable easy morning ride.

In addition I tried our garden bike in the afternoon.  And I succeeded in riding through, only once out of 10 times.  Afterwards I watched the video to study.
If I don't swing the handle too much, and pedal more strongly not depending on arms so much, I might be able to succeed more in the future.  Which means if I don't get too nervous in my arms and legs, I will do better. It is always the same trouble I have! agrrr...

Novato Biking Loop

Found an interesting route at Walk-Bike-Marin's site.  It's called Novato Biking Loop, 7.1 miles, 43 minutes.
Checked carefully every street last night.  We only knew the starting point at the shopping center.  All the streets were unknown completely to us. 

When I started I felt very fresh and thrilled.  Some streets have bike lanes and others don't, but all the drivers were nice.  Unfortunately the beautiful view of houses and trees on the streets were left in our eyes and brains.  I had no time to stop and take any picture, neither did he.  We were busy figuring out which way to go, and also felt like just passing as quickly as we can before cars come.

But the last long street, Indian Valley Road was scary.  The road was narrow but busy both way in addition cyclists were on both side.  For drivers it must have been scary.  But everybody did well.

When we returned safely to the shopping center, I wanted to ride some to cool down, so we did.

We had a spinach and cheese bagel and a turkey & cheese bagel sandwich with juice at Noah's at the shopping center.  And brought back pumpkin bagels and crunchy pumpkin bagels, they are yummy too.