Sunday's Training ride

Arg! I forgot to get a picture of the ride this Sunday. Karyn was headed out for a 50 mile training ride. She was nice enough to bring me along for part of it. I was targeting 20 miles or so.

We headed South on the South Platte river, they have done some improvements on this trail over the last few years, we got into some nice parts of trail! After a while we had been guessing on which way the trail actually went, but ended up on the Bear creek trail. This creek is very nice. It almost reminds me of riding up the Animas in Durango. We eventually got off at Kipling, and headed up toward the clear creek trail, but gave up when we hit 26th. We had gone up some crazy hills. The first hill was 12% grade about .2 of a mile, the second was 15% grade, and a bit longer. At one point heading north, we ended up in a cute little neighborhood, it must have been called "Glen" because all the roads were called "Glen" something... "Glen Moor" "Glen Ayre" "Glen Dale" "Glen Gary" "Glen Sheil" it was kind of weird.

Anyway downhill all the way back to the house where Karyn dropped me off at 27 miles, and she headed back out. She rode the rest of her ride on Cherry Creek Bike Path. I think she's going to be ready for the Tour de Cure in another 2 weeks!

She was even playing with her new toy. The Garmin 301. This is attached to her bike, and reads speed, location, grade, even heart rate. After the return she was plotting the course in the map software, and showing off to David. David are you getting one next?

We rounded out the day by having a fish fry. Time to eat some of that Alaskan fish! Thanks David for bringing the hush puppies!