Weekend Ride/Run, Flooding River
Saturday Ride - 7:00 am - Cabot Route ride
I am still waiting for the warm/dry/sunny Saturday morning. But since it was 45 degrees/dry/sunny we went with 2 out of 3 ... so I left the house at 6:50 to meet the group at 7:00 am for the Saturday 57 mile ride. Of course, as usual I got a cell call on the way from a rider, Mike M., that was going to be late ... But his excuse was better than the run of the mill ... didn't get up in time ... The Arkansas River which was flooding was over the trail forcing him to reroute his direction to the meeting place.
Most of the hills were in the first 12 miles of the ride. Around the midpoint of the ride, Mike had a flat and some of stopped to help him fix it and some went on. After we got rolling again, we had to chase to get back together so that we could tell the riders in front where the route was ... they rolled past the original turn point so we made a slight course alteration when we regrouped which made the ride a little longer than planned. Actually, I ended up with 72 miles since I rode from my house and went down to the NLR River Trail to check out the Arkansas River Flooding.
Drat, Since I had gloves on (45 degrees) ... I missed a great panning photo of the 4 girls on the ride passing us ...
Robert & Mike Mike & John
(Mike messing with his bike became a common theme for this ride)
Saturday Transition Run - around the Burns Park
After the ride I ran a couple laps around Burns Park with Mira (actually Mira took off like someone was chasing her with a gun and it wasn't me ... I couldn't get close enough to use it if I would have had one even though I was running about 8:15 pace). And Marianne & Heather ran together on a slightly different course ...
After the run ... (Mira left before we could get her cheery smile)
Heather & Me Marianne, Me & Heather Heather & Marianne
Me on the trail below the Emerald Park area about 1.5 to 2 feet of water over the trail behind me
The NLR River Trail leading to the Ski Lake disappears into the Arkansas River
Me on the road leading out of the Ski Lake/Dog Park area
I am still waiting for the warm/dry/sunny Saturday morning. But since it was 45 degrees/dry/sunny we went with 2 out of 3 ... so I left the house at 6:50 to meet the group at 7:00 am for the Saturday 57 mile ride. Of course, as usual I got a cell call on the way from a rider, Mike M., that was going to be late ... But his excuse was better than the run of the mill ... didn't get up in time ... The Arkansas River which was flooding was over the trail forcing him to reroute his direction to the meeting place.
Most of the hills were in the first 12 miles of the ride. Around the midpoint of the ride, Mike had a flat and some of stopped to help him fix it and some went on. After we got rolling again, we had to chase to get back together so that we could tell the riders in front where the route was ... they rolled past the original turn point so we made a slight course alteration when we regrouped which made the ride a little longer than planned. Actually, I ended up with 72 miles since I rode from my house and went down to the NLR River Trail to check out the Arkansas River Flooding.
Drat, Since I had gloves on (45 degrees) ... I missed a great panning photo of the 4 girls on the ride passing us ...
Robert & Mike Mike & John
(Mike messing with his bike became a common theme for this ride)
Saturday Transition Run - around the Burns Park
After the ride I ran a couple laps around Burns Park with Mira (actually Mira took off like someone was chasing her with a gun and it wasn't me ... I couldn't get close enough to use it if I would have had one even though I was running about 8:15 pace). And Marianne & Heather ran together on a slightly different course ...
After the run ... (Mira left before we could get her cheery smile)
Heather & Me Marianne, Me & Heather Heather & Marianne
Me on the trail below the Emerald Park area about 1.5 to 2 feet of water over the trail behind me
The NLR River Trail leading to the Ski Lake disappears into the Arkansas River
Me on the road leading out of the Ski Lake/Dog Park area
Amazing I was able to do a 4 hour brick 2 days ago and now I feel like he*&! Got a steroid shot today and some antibiotics. Hopefully I'll kick this stupid thing for good soon.
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Great pictures! I wish I would be doing that too.
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W.w! These pictures are Amazing. That a lot of water.
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