Soooo, guess what? You got it. We actually got to ride bikes outside on Saturday. Originally, we thought we might be able to ride outside both days of the weekend, but Sunday was colder than they thought it was going to be. So, Saturday it was.
We went at a nice leisurely pace and we all were saying how great it felt to play outside on bikes again.
We rode 27.7 miles. We thought we were just going to do an out and back, but when we got to Mahaffey Bridge Road, we decided to do a circular route through North Liberty and to the Coralville Resevoir and then back home.
When we hit the intersection of Mahaffey Bridge Road and Sugar Bottom, a woman was walking her dog and asked, "So, don't you want to pet me dog?" Just so you know, when asked that question my answer is always going to be, "Hell, yes!"
Just as we were heading down the sweeping downhill on the way to The Res, our friend Burne got a flat tire. We stopped at the spillway to fix it. They said it was for authorized personnel only, but they didn't specify WHO(M?) was authorized, so we just assumed they meant us and we rode our bikes up and down the sloping cement walls. Like I always say, I love being ten years old and fifty-three all at the same time.
We finally made it to our friend, Marco's house and dropped him off and gave his cute dog some attention before heading home.
I'm so excited that it's the first day of Spring today and that we'll hopefully have many, many, more weekends this year playing bikes with friends outside.
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