My legs felt heavy after the triathlon yesterday and my ride started with a wake up call. In the first 8 miles I climbed 1300 feet, some with a 9% grade. While Cami started the day with a latte and a little computer time at Starbucks in downtown Napa, I began biking, looking up at hot air balloons above me. I dont know what was going on in Napa that day but by the end of the day I was looking DOWN on those balloons!
The cool thing about my route today was that 10 miles outside Davis I took the dedicated, paved bikeway that runs parallel to the road. It was great to see so many people out enjoying the path or commuting to work or school. There were even bike roundabouts!
A yellow bridge noted the Gateway to Sacramento. Turning left off the bridge I continued on to the Jedidiah Bike trail toward Folsom next to a river bed.
Cami felt pretty sure that on a dedicated route it would be safe to try to track me down, so she drove to our campground, got the rig settled and started to bike to me. It was more tricky to connect than we expected because as I neared Folsom and we tried to figure out where one another was we realized that the Jedidiah trail ran on both sides of the river bed!
When we finally connected Cami shared some bad news. "I literally coasted to you for the first 30-40 minutes of my hour ride." Uh oh; this didn't bode well for the remainder of my 100 miles for the day. It was work to get to the top of the climb but once there we turned and in 20 feet was our campground (Folsom Lake, Beal's Point) -- right off the trail!
We cooled our heels at the reservoir there with a sandy beach, then went out to dinner in downtown Folsom at Hop Sing Palace for yummy chinese food!
Sacramento, here I come...
After meeting up with Cami on the Jedidiah Bike trail...before the climb into the campground
My lovely wife in downtown Folsom after our chinese meal