With the race season taking a strange hiatus right when the weather starts getting good, it makes one wonder if perhaps the race organizers simply prefer the rain? So off to the roads I go, smiling all the way.
Got some family bike rides in with the wife and kids and it's really fun to watch all three of them grow in strength. Taught the kids to roll out in a pace line (with about a 4 foot gap between bikes), taught them about the benefits of drafting when we found a very windy section, and they got to test standing out of the saddle on a steep little hill. All great lessons to learn, and as it turns out the wife was listening and learning too. I'm very proud daddy/husband.
But there's still some work to be done beyond the family bike ride, and typically that involves a solo effort for hours at a time and lots of ideas flow by during those miles and miles... So it's time to update the blog.
The route I took was a new one suggested by a friend who recently stayed over to visit our place in Entiat, WA. He asked "have you ever ridden blah blah canyon road, where's that lead?", "what about this highway, how's the shoulder?", "Do you know where this road pops out?", "What's the view like up here on this bluff?". How embarrassing I didn't know a single route he'd mentioned! With such beautiful scenery all I'd ever ridden was the highway back and forth to Chelan, or Wenatchee. So I've determined to explore around the area a bit more.
I'll try to list out the areas by route name here in order to keep track of them, and if they're worth riding again, mostly for my own reference. Standby...
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