Merciful cloudy and cool day

Finally that evil hot heat has gone.  We got a nice and cooling day today.
But my pedaling was very heavy, actually my body got extremely heavy and my legs and ankles had a hard time today.  Four days with no ride gave me quite an impact.  Shouldn't complain, because I still can ride.  A little bit.

After all we need time more than speed.

And we need more time for engine warm up.
So we decided to avoid any heated up day time riding.  We have to get up early as regular people, so we can ride in cool and fresh air in the morning.
And we try to remember to ride very casually while chatting with each other for a while longer than before.  And gradually speed up, just once sprint for a short distance, and go back to our comfortable speed zone.

I still can't ride long enough to reach one hour riding, but I'm getting close to it.  

After one day off yesterday, we slept for 9 hours accidentally, we felt so good.  We enjoyed riding for a while, but it was a late start today, and the temperature went up soon.  We gave up and came back.  If we started earlier as usual, we might have ridden for 8 or even 9 miles.

OK. next time.

 

New idea, new challenge?!

In spite of several left over pains from yesterday's gardening work, I walked 2.5 miles with my friend who kindly stopped patiently a couple of times for me.  

Then, in comfortable late afternoon I bicycled with him, because I really wanted to try 90 cadence with metronome on smart phone.  That was fun at beginning, but I noticed that speed is impossible for me and for him either.  So we changed to 80 cadence, even that was not easy, but we went through and back.

I think I found it fun to keep trying.  😁😍

His 70th Birthday Ride

It was a sunny and gorgeous CA Spring day yesterday.  He already loaded our bicycles a day before, so it was easy to hit the road.  

Nowadays we just can't do more than two things on the same day.
And we were getting more nervous and scared to do new things including riding in new places where we've never ridden before.

But we were talking ourselves into it, if we go over there, we can eat the crab sandwiches and have some clam chowder.

So we passed by the entrance of the trail and found the place to eat first.  

  There was a long line in front of the store, and when  we came to very close to the entrance, I looked back and found the line continuing more.  The view of Marina across the street is quite nice,

And there was a dog who is very shy and very expressive entertaining for us so that we didn't get too tired to wait. 

The bread of the sandwich was toasted to perfect crispiness and a lot of crab made us very happy.

OK, let's ride!

We parked on the North side of the trail from CA-1.  And started to ride around the marsh area which was quite dry and covered with lots of colorful flowers of ice plants.

We saw the people who were enjoying wind surfing in the Bodega Harbor.  

 I got a little nervous as usual but smoothly got on the White bridge.  Thank God, nobody was there.

The beautiful nature trail was so enjoyable, 

but we reached busy Doran Beach Road so soon.

When I turned around there was a sign.

We rode the trail back and tried riding around counterclockwise, and found the beautiful spot to take a picture.

This is the photo I took.

We rode just 2.5 miles, but we still could ride in a new place without hurting ourselves; that's the bright side.

 
 

"Honey, you should go front."

Finally I could ride to follow him.  It's nice to follow somebody for riding, because I've been riding and thinking which course to go.

But for some reason when the road changed to up slope, I have a tendency to slow down and he has a tendency to speed up, and soon he is away up solo riding.  So I changed gear and sped up almost like a sprint to catch him.  I could do it nowadays.  That's great. 

So we could ride 9 miles today!  I should keep asking him to go first.