Today we decided to sleep in a little bit and skip the buddy ride. In retrospect, we should have gotten up and just done it. We lazily got coffee and perused the Biking Bay Area books and maps that I have to find a ride that would be sort of easy but have a few little hills. Finally we decided to go to Stevens Canyons and do a 21 mile ride.
Ha!
We didn't get started until 11 so by the time we got to Cupertino and to the park it was noon and hot, hot, hot. Sheila didn't want to go the route I had from the book so we rode into the park and up a trail. Within 200 yards, it suddenly turned into a straight up stell climb on a loos gravel trail. Well, we have hybrid bike which are fine on gravel and dirt trails but not mountains. I couldn't start cold going straight uphill and told Sheila to come back. The bike wheels were slipping out from under me on the way down and I had to wlak the bike a bit.
So we decided to try the route I had from the book. The parking lot we were in was lower than the road and required a brief ride up a short steep hill just to get to the road. Halfway up, Sheila bailed. "Too hot!" So we went back down the hill to the car, ate our lunch and decided to drive part of the route to scout it out for a later day, earlier in the morning. It's a good thing, it was all uphill and frankly there is no way we could have ridden this ride in the heat we had today.
After we at, we drove over to Shoreline and did the wimpy flat ride!
Posted by erin at August 7, 2004 10:01 PM