Sunday, November 2, 2008

Wheeee!

Saturday we had gorgeous fall weather and temps near 70, so it was out for a bike ride! We started on our usual around the neighborhood loop, then headed out for our bigger loop. It was so beautiful we decided to go further and visited the Patuxent Wildlife Refuge. There's a great 3 mile loop in the park, and at the halfway point they had porto-potties. It's bad when you get excited about seeing a porto-pottie, and then that you rate it as a good one because they had hand sanitizer! The parking lot there is lit by solar lights -- why aren't more parking lots and streets lit by these things? We read the little sign that told all about where the parts were made and how it works. Particularly liked that the lights "turn on at dust." Really? Dust? God help people who aren't good at housecleaning if their lights turned on at dust!!

Aside from the 2 jacka_s drivers who thought it would be fun to try to run me off the road, the vehicular traffic wasn't bad. I felt really good and even commented to Kathy that "this going to the gym crap really works!" Didn't struggle up the hills as much as last week -- yeah!!!

At the end of the ride we did a short lap around the neighborhood with Kathy leading the way. Just after turning onto Greenhill, there was a squirrel in the road. I swear he was doing that car insurance commercial -- where they run in front of a car to try to make the driver wreck. Anyway, the little furry beast did the same to me, waiting until the last minute to dash in front of me. It was so funny it made me laugh...and thankfully not wreck the bike!

Total mileage -- 26 miles -- yippeee!

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