On the Bike at Last!

It certainly took longer that usual to get us out for the first bike ride of the year, but today we finally had all our ducks in a row and the weather was "go"! Boise was expecting temperatures between 75 and 80 today and we drove down there to take advantage of it. (I imagine that the weather in Garden Valley was pretty nice too, but the route options are severely limited.)

We had a breeze to contend with, but fortunately for us it was blowing "the wrong way" today, so we rode into the wind for the first half of the ride (at a slow pace in an easy gear) and then screamed back toward where we parked the truck, with the wind pushing us all of the way.

We rode 17.5 miles... which doesn't sound like much, but for the first time out it's not too bad either. There's a lot of muscles that need to be awakened and worked back into shape, and then there's the matter of being able to sit on the bike seat for any extended amount of time! Hopefully, if the weather stays decent we'll start to be able to do a little riding with a little more consistency. (We're going to have to ride regularly if there's any hope of getting back into shape like we were back in "the olden days"!)

We stopped at a couple of bike shops along the route and checked out some of the new helmets for Valerie, and then after the ride we made the BIG mistake of stopping off and grabbing some Mexican food for dinner. We wound up with chicken fajitas and both ate more than either one of us should have. We probably negated all of the good work we accomplished by riding, but what the hey -- it tasted great at the time!