It rained all night. It was cold and dark. My husband wanted to ride to Fremont for an important meeting. I was invited. I wanted to go, it was a celebration for him. But he wanted to ride. AUGH
I'd had a sinus headache on and off for days, and as a result, i wasn't getting good sleep.. We watched the weather and it was finally time to go (8am) and it wasn't raining, so I donned all my wool.. ALL wool, yes! and put on my showers pass raincoat, and packed away my buff... and my rainpants... and we hopped on our bikes running over leaves; yellow bumpy ones from the horse chestnut trees, orangey pink ones from the ash trees, assorted yellows and oranges from maples, browns and reds from the oaks, all mushed down and wet all of them; definitely not the kind of leaves you'd want to romp around in.
We dropped into downtown which was quiet, the only traffic was people looking for parking for the football game.. We passed that muddle and zipped to Fremont where we took a detour to the bakery and checked their dumpsters. Unfortunately there was no bread in them, only trash. We got to our destination where I discovered I had no plastic bag to cover my saddle in case it rained (weather report: 60% chance of rain all day) so I went to the PCC(co-op) and bought a few things and a plastic bag. Then I went and joined the meeting where I sat and drew pictures of crows on street light posts and listened.
After the meeting, we happily noted that the sky had lightened a little bit. We went home the scenic way. We took the Burke Gilman trail to the arboretum where the colors were lovely, but not as nice as last year, and continued down to Lake Washington. we zig zagged back to Rainier avenue to make a purchase at Mutual fish, and then climbed the hill back to home. 26 miles, 1000 feet of climbing and finished in the sunshine. I was really glad we rode!
