Ah, Sunday night, a breather for the next week of retirement. In my past this time was a final respite before the grind of the next 5 days doing what someone else told me to do. Really, tonight is just another regular night with me being the person responsible for telling me what to do. I work at being a good boss. Monday to Friday work week should mean fewer people on the trails, ride the popular trails during the week while on weekends find the less popular places. ( hit key to change this text and still looking to turn it back off). Like today, I rode Turkey Creek area sharing trails with fewer than 15 people. Red dirt. Found the key.
Today I rode from empty La Plaza building parking lot where I park when in VOC. Bunch of miles on Verde Valley paved road till I jumped off on to horse created single track. Below grade and lots of distance of loose rocks. Trail bordered by leaveless catclaw that keep the trail narrow. To leave the rut could result in blood letting. I rode the ocotillo forest hiking my bike up to it. Riding this loop this way means more stuff I can ride, I can ride this part going down but the tread is steep with loose rock and such a shame to loose so much vert in such a short distance.
Back out off Beaverhead for dinner and the night. same spot. Cows still on other side of road.
Forecast is calling for precip on Tues, Just forecasting, make it rain.
On Friday I met Dave at his place down right on Oak Creek. We socialized for several hours before we headed out for our ride. He has 2 sister kittens that I enjoyed. We pedaled some pavement before hitting the start of Easy Breezy. Dave is a very skilled rider and rides fast. I had never seen what a much better rider could do. I know why hikers freak out as he is fast but did pleasantly interact with other users. What a sight. I became flustered sort of attempting to stay close. His speed and moves are out of my league. We ran into Kyle from Moab whom I recognized as he rode by me and later Robert, a local. Dave visits.
Late afternoon finish. I beat wheels back down to Beaverhead.
Sat I made a rest day. Zags game against St Marys was televised on ESPN at 8. PJs possibly. Absolute installed rebuild parts in my left pedal. Watched the Zags game at PJs, they won, then drove out to Overlook for the night.
In my van on the ceiling above the driver’s seat is a spider cobweb with several insect carcasses entrapped. I was curious if there was a resident spider. Several nights ago I happened to look up and spied the resident. Web remains.
Temps have been warming, today ride temp was in 60s, at night it stops above freezing.