2 November 2011 Ride

I guess it's par for the course lately: good energy day, low energy day.  The fact that the wind continues, does not help.  Wind in the forecast until Monday.  I'm sure the folks in the Plains would be laughing; "You're complaining about 15 - 20 mph wind?  Ha!" 

Give me four feet of snow, give me 20 below zero, give me 115 degree heat, but the wind wears me down.

I parked at the southern end of the trail at 6th Street and worked my way south on Hwy 71 in the morning while the wind was still moderate.  I rode a few miles and changed directions before things had a chance to become tiresome; that was the plan today, keep changing directions so that I never had the wind for very long at one time.  That seemed to work.


A sign at the top of the road to Wilson Lake said, "Road Closed .5 miles," so, one would think it's not worth a pedal down.  But, one never knows what one might find.  A few interesting shots from an old building and the debris around.

 This looks as if it's a close-up of a bike chain.  It is a close up, but the links are actually about 4x as big as a bike chains.

On the trail, I recognized Sally, who was instrumental in getting Dorothy Mangold into bike riding.  Sally is still going strong at 80.

Carol, Sally and Betty

Rather than head north for about 8 miles and then turn south into the wind for 8 miles, I rode about 2-3 miles north and then flipped direction so that I wouldn't have so much of the wind in one stretch.  Weather.com said that the wind was gusting up to 27mph but it never seemed that strong on the trail, thank goodness.

I mentioned to Colene, one of my very faithful blog followers who lives in Iowa, that I would have loved to have gotten a picture of her holding up the Happy Birthday sign for Will.  How wonderful that she obliged me (and Will) with the following picture today.

Thanks, Colene!

Today's Ride:  3hrs 2mins.  33.63 miles    55°-72°   15-20mph   Miles YTD:  8,319.51

Number of miles per day needed to reach 10,000 miles by the end of the year: 28.48

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