First let me say that we rode our trainers Monday for about 45 minutes. Then Charmaine got me to agree to do a short ride Tuesday with a local group that calls themselves the boat-dock bandits.

We started the ride at the furthest north west parking lot at UVU. The ride would take us out along the shores of Utah Lake and up to the American Fork boat dock. The group gets its name from upsetting the old man that works the boat dock entrance gate (and always wants to charge the riders or prevent them from turning around inside the parking area).

The short ride turned out to be 22 miles in some pretty serious wind. At one point we couldn’t see more than about 10 feet in front of us because of the dust storm we were riding through. Luckily, the ride was extremely flat and the wind was at our backs the whole way back (we were going more than 30 mph with the wind’s help).

Unfortunately for us, we got back to the car without enough time to go home and get changed for swimming. We did our best, but still arrived a few minutes late.

As it turned out, that huge wind storm we were riding through was enough to close the pool. It’s technically an outdoor pool, even though it has a bubble over it. In severe wind storms, they close the pool to prevent anyone from drowning in the unlikely event that the wind causes the bubble to collapse. So, instead of swimming, or reviewing our videos from last week, we got to do dryland training! By the end, I had to struggle just to stand up so I could drive home. It was fairly embarrassing.