Great Ride!

It sure was another good day for a ride. The skies were absolutely blue and the scenery was the best! It is great to be able to go out on a ride and have no cares or worries on my mind. Just the pain of climbing that next hill to think about. And it sure was hurting today. I have not been on the bike for a while now so I am catching up on all those days missed or spent trying to ride away from it all. Today was all about the ride. The pace was slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. my average was only 13.50 mph! But in my defence I did pic a route with some serious climbing in it. LOL I just the slow_peddler after all. Today was all about the ride though. The pear and Cherie trees are blooming and filling the air with there overpowering pungent smell. All of the tree farms are getting ready to ship and are in some places shipping this years supply of trees to all the plant shops and hard wear stores around the country. So they have the roads full of mud and since it just rained for the last 5 days, they sure are all muddied up! The ride along the damn on powerhouse road was awesome especially since I was riding up to the damn from down in the valley in anticipation of the view of lake James and the Mts.


I have not ridden up the way since last summer. The winter and early spring are rough times to ride up around the lake as the winds are very high most of the time. The last two days on the bike have been good for me. I am looking forward to next month when I can join my friend Mark up on the Mt. in West Jefferson for some good riding. well today's stats were: Dist. 34.19 Aver. 13.50 and last but not least fun factor, 10 on a scale of 10! Peace!