So, I returned to using the data gathering device, affectionately (?) called Boss by Susan. This morning I checked the sleep data and saw my heart rate was in the 50s versus upper 40s signifying insufficient recovery from yesterday’s ride and prolly from the day before cumulative from days before. Friends Bill and Susan from Gunnison arrived on Sunday, they coming from snow country and younger. I shared my trail knowledge and I hiked my bike.
Yesterday was a ride out at western Gateway on a mix of system and social trails under sunny skies and a stiff breeze. Started high dropping down to Dry Creek then climbing out other side for the likes of Last Frontier etc then dropping back to creek then climb out. 12.6 miles climbing 1165′ pedaling for 2 hrs.
The day before it was the Hogs and 80 degrees. This ride was the most technical for this visit. I am familiar with the trails. Susan asked me if there were trails here that I would want to ride but not by myself. My ride choices have been ones of mostly pedaling with tech features mixed in, this ride was heavy on the tech. 14.6 mikes climbing 1280′ pedaling for 2 hrs 19 mins. Recovery time per Garmin was 38 hrs.
On Monday I was fitted with a new night guard device replacing the current 1 that is 11 years old. Afterwards we rode out from the borrow pit off Dry creek, this ride has been the shortest with them.
Sunday Ian drove Brian and me over to Prescott to meet up with Jimmy for a ride. Our starting point was the high point of the route. It was like eating desert before the broccoli on the climb back. I prefer the opposite direction. I was the slowest, the others waited at trail junctions for me. Open forest, decomposed granite tread. Jimmy’s route choice lessened the climbing back, less painful. 9.95 miles climbing 778′ pedaling for 1hr 25 mins.
The younger riders talk during the climbs, me, not so as I am way out of earshot and just struggling to make air intake drive my legs.
REVEL bikes has closed its doors just now. Lost their sugar daddy to service debt. They just introduced 2 models, 1 being an enduro ebike. Bill and Susan own Tomichi Cycles in Gunnison. Informative conversations from their shop owners’ take. Industry is shaking.
We have been camping off Beaverhead. We left camping stuff there with a note attached with hope that the stuff will still be there and the spot will be saved for us. So far dispersed camping etiquette is respected.
Forecast 2 days ago wanted showers for today which came to be. I was laying in bed when I heard the first spits of rain on my roof. It turned to be a harbinger of the day so far. They drove away this morning for their ride while I drove into the village incase the rain wetted the clay dirt enough to make it slippery. Light rain is falling now, more than showers forecast. I might be city camping tonight.
Temperature dropped to chilly, heater running and long sleeved shirt, still wearing shorts but a jacket. Bill and Susan’s van is for carrying their stuff and sleeping, they live outside. Rain and chilly will affect them. 40 degrees, forecast says maybe snow.
So much for catching up.