Chilly AM, started the heater and crawled back under the covers. Overuse creaks and groans were overpowering sleep, Beacon was brutal climbing.
After B fast drove to 5 Mile laundromat. Buddy Danny from Sedona called saying he will be on a road trip and will visit Spokane. I will be gone. Clean clothes.
Headed out of town downriver. Parked @ 7 Mile just across the Spokane river. Parked outside the park to not pay the $10 per day pass. For today’s ride I had sugarplums dancing in my head, something like Little feat’s, Old Folks’ Boggey: “Mind making promises that the body can’t Keep”. I left Palasades and Indian Canyon out of my route which netted me 31.39 miles in 3 hrs 39 mins, climbed 3045′. I took a break @ 2 hours,the entire ride excluding the rest, was non stop. Very dry. Saw no one. Trails were dusty but I didn’t follow anyone. I added in a few pieces of newly learned trails. Good riding in the Park.
Next was a shower @ Bicycle Butler, my former home shop. I stopped @ Rosaurs across the street to buy a sixer of PBR. Beer goes to the shop cooler to pay for shower privileges. Only size was pint size: you really love your PBR after one of those. Big thing of drinking PBRs. Not me. I put it in the fridge. Tim, the owner, closed the shop and we sat outside the shop drinking a PBR and watching evening traffic flow on Country Homes. Got buzzed.
Fixed dinner behind Yokes again.
Tomorrow is a rest day. Dinner @ The Elk. Plan still is to leave on Monday. So much smoke causing decreased visibility and affected lungs. Keep pedaling and look closer to the front wheel.
Spokane streets are stud rutted from winter studded snow tires. The studs chip away the cement or asphalt resulting in wheel ruts. Plus the pavement wears poorly exhibiting cracks and patched potholes. Rough streets.