Bikes 23 Aug 2006 09:38 pm
massive tandem ride
Josh and I had a bike adventure to celebrate our third anniversary. We went up to Log Boom Park in Kenmore, stopping off to see the permaculture beds near the Meadowbrook community center. The beds are kind of overgrown, but still awesome. You can pick fruit there, and they have the most marvelous grapes. Coasting down the gentle slope of Ravenna to Hale is a fun ride; the tandem was really picking up some speed.
Log Boom Park was closed. Boo! So we headed back down the Burke-Gilman trail and had a picnic at Matthew’s Beach. I hadn’t been there since I was about eight years old. Then back down the trail to the UW and then to home. Total mileage today: 23.75 miles. Fastest speed: about 25.5 mph.
Man, are we ever sore. That’s very significantly longer than I’ve ever ridden before. It was pretty tempting to leave the bike at Josh’s office and take the bus back, but we persevered. I cranked down my heart monitor’s limits to be extra-cautious, and it seems to have worked: I’m groggy, but not totally zonked out. Poor Josh forgot to wear padded bike shorts; he was pretty thrashed in the rear by the time we got to Matthew’s Beach. Heck, we both were — I sprawled out on top of a picnic table there, prone, enjoying my sit-bones’ lack of compression.
As we were heading out of the Meadowbrook community center’s parking lot, a little kid shouted after us, “That is so cool!” Yay for tandems.
on 23 Aug 2006 at 10:12 pm 1.Laura said …
Wow, that really is an impressive ride. That kid was right, it is so cool!
on 23 Aug 2006 at 10:58 pm 2.Communications From Elsewhere said …
Long (for us) tandem ride
As a three year anniversay (has it been that long already? Sure doesn’t feel like it) adventure, I took a day off today and Cam and I took the tandem out for a picnic. There was a fair amount of not knowing quite where we were going, but once we …
on 24 Aug 2006 at 10:53 am 3.Lisa said …
Yea!!! That sounds soo cool! I miss the Burke-Gilman! It sounds like a great day!