Finally! First bike ride of the year! We mounted our bikes and headed off towards Madison Park with Autumn & Jeremy earlier today. We checked our route down there and back and yes, it seemed hilly, but we could do it, right? Well, I conveniently forgot that I'd just done 16 super hilly miles on saturday and my legs were quite tired. And that showed. Real soon!
Just the ride down to Madison Park from Pike isn't really all downhill. There were a couple of steep hills we needed to conquer before we finally started flying down the mountain - felt *so* good. That's one of my favorite parts of biking- the wind rushing in my face! So, we headed down to Madison Park Cafe for brunch - we'd heard good things about their food and were starving. So we go in, sit down, guzzle some agua and wait ... the waitress comes up and says "We've been really busy, so we're out of potatoes and spinach and ..."! What?! No breakfast potatoes?!! That sucks! So, we leave and scrounge around for another place to eat. We finally land up at Sorella's (we'll save the details for later!), finish up a very mediocre brunch and start biking back.
*wow* The hills seemed steeper on a full stomach! So, we weaved our way around, trying to find a flat side street to break the arduousness of the hills. We wrapped around the hill, up McGilvra to avoid directly cresting it - and it definitely helped some. My gears still seem a little flaky - got to figure out what's going on with that.
Pretty short route, but hard and fun, lots of fun!
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