Sunny day....

Woohoo.....
The Yellow Bike....
Unseasonably warm....
Today....
Waiting for a train....
XC ski training behind me....

A very nice day, temperature wise. The winds were out of the SW at 20 to 30 and were an absolute bear! Out of the saddle to get 10 mph on the Lone Tree Road Trail heading west to Black Hawk Park from Big Woods Lake. Good thing it's only a couple of miles! Goddddddddd........ I met Super Saul just outside the entrance to BH Park and we talked for a couple of minutes. He was smiling, as usual. Was that one of those bikes with the big wheels, Ron? I rode up to the north end of the park and turned around and hit the trail back to Cedar Falls via Cottage Row Road. I rode past the RIPE sewage treatment facility and then over the dike by the golf course and had to wait for a stopped train that had delivered coal to the Utilities complex. Some guy on a newer Raleigh 800 (?) came up beside me and waited for a couple of minutes then picked up his bike up and crawled over the coupling between 2 train cars. SCARY!!!! DUMB!!! STUPID!!!! I waited a couple more minutes then rode through the grass of the practice fields beside the golf course and came out on the Utilities Parkway by the entrance to Washington Park. When I got up to Pfeiffer, Mr. Raleigh was sitting on the bench beside the trail. He could have been squished!

25 miles on The (clean) Yellow Bike and a chat with Mr. Saul..... It's all good! (I spent about two hours last night cleaning all the gravel dust off of it from the Octobe 6th ride. I know.... slow! Clean and lubed now!)

Thanks for responding to yesterday's post, Eduardo. You warmed my heart! :) Kerkove called me old and you said we were friends! Oh yeah!

I still cannot believe that someone wants to build housing down by the sewage treatment facility in CF! Smells like a lawsuit brewing somewhere down the road. (Ha Ha, that was good!)

Ride safe....

Peace out, yo!