a nice sunday

here is a picture of the road that i went on to get out to carter lake:

i had a pretty cool adventure today. it was a fairly mild temperature [maybe about 50F]. i rode up to carter lake agian, this time i only had one pannier. i tried to limit the amount of stuff that i carry because it has benn quite the issue lately. so i packed very lightly, very very lightly.

this trip was going to be a nice little road ride followed by a pretty tough trail run [yes, i said run! ], followed by a nice road ride, followed by a trip to the grocery store.

the first two parts went really well. i rode up to the trail head and parked my bike. as you can see from the picture... maybe i shouldn't have parked my bike there. anyway the run was a 6 mile run through some really rough rock gardens. it was the same trail i rode my bike on a couple of weeks ago. running seems more difficult for some reason... it might have been because i was going a lot faster running.

when i got back from the run i was so sweaty. i didn't have anything to change into except for my cycling shorts and my wind breaker. the wind breaker helped a little...oh i also had a beanie which helped a ton. at least for my head. after all you know what they say... "on a really cold day, you can be completely naked, and only have a warm hat and gloves and you will be warm" i may have paraphrased that a little too much, so much that it it is no longer true :) but you know what i mean. anyway my head was warm... but the rest of me was freezing. i had a pretty big descent ahead of me an i wasn't looking forward to being cold. it was very cold!

after the descent i rode into a patch of sunlight and it felt really nice. i called home to see if my wife needed some things from the store while i was out here. she did.... so i was off to the store. it was pretty cool to be able to run errands out on my bike. too bad i had remove the other pannier before i left, i could have used it after the store. i would have loved to bring home some milk.... just to say i brought home some milk on my bike :)

i made it home pretty tired... but feeling really good.