Back on the Mountain Bike!

After a week of drinking and schmoozing at a convention in Vegas I felt like a piece of crap. Tessa and I headed over to Cashmere and I talked myself into a mountain bike ride. I parked at the Sand Hill parking area and rode up over Red Devil to Devil's Gulch, and up the Gulch to the second Creek crossing, then back to the Devil's Gulch Parking area and fire road back to my car. About 18 miles and 2100' of vertical. The ribs did fine. Monday I parked at the Sand creek trail head again and rode up the abandon road exploring as I went. Hit the Red Hill trail and came back to the car. Only 12 miles, but still 2000' of climbing. Getting back on the mountain bike felt really good. I rounded out the weekend riding through town with Tessa. I feel like myself again!

Date: June 26
Mileage: 20
Ride type/Bike: Road/Allez
June Miles: 298
Year to date mileage: 1300

Date: June 25
Mileage: 12
Ride type/Bike: Mountain/Pisgah
June Miles: 278
Year to date mileage: 1280

Date: June 24
Mileage: 18
Ride type/Bike: Mountain/Pisgah
June Miles: 266
Year to date mileage: 1268

Fathers Day Ride

Keith and I rode out to Kanasket Palmer State park in the drizzle. The Girls all met us out there and we had a wonderful barbecue for fathers day. Can't beat that!

Date: June 17
Mileage: 30
Ride type/Bike: Road/Tricross
June Miles: 248
Year to date mileage: 1250

Date: June 12
Mileage: 20
Ride type/Bike: Road/Tricross
June Miles: 218
Year to date mileage: 1220

Hood River

I had a great 3 days of road riding in the Hood River George with friends Clint, Tom and Zach. Did a lot of climbing and got all kinds of weather.



June 8th was the Lost Lake Loop:





June 9th was a very wet and sometimes miserable Trout Lake loop:







And Finally some sunshine on the 10th as we headed out to the desert:








Date: June 10
Mileage: 28
Ride type/Bike: Road/Tricross
June Miles: 198
Year to date mileage: 1200

Date: June 9
Mileage: 53
Ride type/Bike: Road/Tricross
June Miles: 170
Year to date mileage: 1172

Date: June 8
Mileage: 32
Ride type/Bike: Road/Tricross
June Miles: 117
Year to date mileage: 1119

Paying the Tire Gods

I showed Joel my quick 20 mile loop on Saturday. We tooled around for the first half, then hammered the second half for what was pretty close to my personal best. He suggested I come out to North Bend to ride Sunday so I took him up on it. I decided that in prep for getting beaten up by him again and for my climbing in Hood River next weekend, I ought to put on some faster tires. Off came the bullet proof Schwalbe Marathon XR's and on came the Stevilo's. They felt so fast. I was living it up.... Right until I hit that little piece of glass. @$#%@%$! Oh well, I've got 8000 feet of climbing to do next weekend and my fat ass needs some light tires for that. Afterwards they come back off in preparation for some fun bike camping.

Speaking of bike camping, we passed some folks coming home from bike camping today. One of them was our local hero Kent Peterson, holder of the single speed GDR record. I got to say a very quick hello, but that was about it as I was rapidly loosing Joel in the distance.

Date: June 3
Mileage: 35
Ride type/Bike: Road/Tricross
June Miles: 85
Year to date mileage: 1087

Date: June 2
Mileage: 20
Ride type/Bike: Road/Tricross
June Miles: 50
Year to date mileage: 1052

Date: June 1
Mileage: 30
Ride type/Bike: Railtrail-Road/Tricross
June Miles: 30
Year to date mileage: 1032

1000 Miles

Rode with my daughter two days over the holiday. We even went to the store to get some allergy medicine. She was pretty impressed that we didn't have to drive. She's getting very good and staying right behind me through busy intersections and such.

Hit 1000 miles! In May! That's my most ever this early in the year. That makes me feel good despite the cracked ribs and surgery!

Date: May 30
Mileage: 12
Ride type/Bike: Mountain/Pisgah
May Miles: 226
Year to date mileage: 1002

Date: May 27 - 28
Mileage: 7
Ride type/Bike: Road/Tricross
May Miles: 214
Year to date mileage: 990

Date: May 25
Mileage: 20
Ride type/Bike: Road/Tricross
May Miles: 207
Year to date mileage: 983