July 22 Weekend Rides

[TrekTheKaty]

When I get adventurous, watch out! Today's ride turned into a scavenger hunt. Two mistakes:
1) Heading out on a route that we found on mapmyride, on roads we are not familiar with (last time we did that, we carried our bikes across a creek and I was nipped by a dog)
2). "I drove the first part the other day and it was mostly rolling."

So instead of riding from our house, down to the Rail trail, then hopping off onto a flat country road so my husband could climb two big hills -- we headed out on a new route. Then next thing I knew, my easy Sat ride (because we've got a long ride tomorrow), turned into:

My husband passing me up a hill, yelling "I've got 21% on my gps!". Not info that is helping at this point in time. Then, Dh says, I know where we are. I follow him. We end up back at a highway we already crossed. "oops (look at wife for help)". I get out my iphone map. After several more missed turns we come out on Pittman Road--one of my husband's fav hills. "the road is closed, but we rode on it the other day." Suddenly, I'm off-roading on my new, clean baby. And shouldn't it be all downhill from here? Back onto the rail trail (this is what I kept my other bike for!), up a monster hill from the trail head and home on the road.

I finally cut my DH loose to sprint home ("I can't ride this slow forever!"). I arrive home, walk through the front door, and DH walks in the garage door. "what are you doing?". He took a different route, and sat at a busy stoplight for 10 min

We laughed afterward, but not very clever when you're racing the 100 degree temps and DH forgot his water bottles, so we're sharing (Thank God for Camelbaks!)