Friday was just beautiful, and because we were meeting friends for dinner in Gurnee, I was able to relax and enjoy some of it after work. I stopped by Target and GameStop (still looking for a cheap copy of Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal), plus spent a nice twenty minutes or so enjoying the breeze and chatting with my mom on the phone. Finally, I headed over to Outback Steakhouse where I met up with takaza, linnaeus, roho, and the gimpy genet, who had just had knee surgery a few days before. Dinner was tasty and the margarita really hit the spot (note to self: avoid the Wallaby Darned next time. Nasty bitter aftertaste to that). After dinner we went to a nice local ice cream place and savored the evening sitting out at a picnic table. Just lovely.
On Saturday, the weather was perfect in the morning – sixty-five degrees, blue skies. Paul and I motivated early and put our bicycles into The Box. We drove over to Busse Woods, where we met up with Muganga. We rode the 7.8-mile loop trail, and it was pretty good. I was afraid my slow riding was holding us up, but Tom and Paul assured me I wasn’t doing too badly (I think they were just being nice 🙂 It was a thoroughly enjoyable ride, and I’m amazed at how little I ached in the days afterwards. This is something I really would like to do with some regularity, even if it means getting up early on weekends in the summer to catch the cooler part of the days. There’s something about the feeling you get after a nice ride early in the morning – you’re awake, you’re motivated, and you have the whole day ahead of you.
More to come in a bit…
[Nasty bitter aftertaste to that]
That’s called “tequila.”
Nah, I know what tequila tastes like. Heck, I like the taste of tequila. No, this was more like the taste of maybe underripe peaches? Really unpleasant.
Did you get the recumbent?
Loxley
Nah, I’m quite a ways away from a sizeable investment like that. Heck, I haven’t figured out a way to get my butt onto one to test-drive it yet, though I admit I haven’t looked very hard. No, I have a decent mountain/road bike that I bought from a few years back that works reasonably well, though at some point I’d like to find a seat that doesn’t leave me aching for days afterwards (or just adjust it to the proper height, maybe?).
You know, there’s always this weekend…and I wanna use my car’s bike rack!
How convenient that there’s a nice 8.9 mile loop right next door. Not sure how I’d get my bike there, but we can work that out.
And there’s always Bike the Drive, too…
I can fit an extra one inside the car. 🙂
Ooh, and it’s even paved! I’ll be bringing my bike with me, so if either or both of you want to get away for a ride Saturday or Monday, I’m on it.