Tonight at about 6:00 I asked Charmaine where we would be riding. I also told her it was already 6:00. I don’t know what time we finally left, but I think it was close to 7:00. We didn’t get home until after 9:30, which is well past when the sun went down. In fact, we wound up making some route changes to avoid roads with traffic (since the visibility was down with the sun being gone).

We left our house and cruised down Canyon into Pleasant Grove. We turned and went up some road to avoid riding on State Street. We ended up coming down the 1500 East (PG) / 400 East (Lindon) / 400 West (Orem) hill… yes, that’s just one road with several coordinate-sounding names. Roads change their names and numbers around here, depending on which city you may happen to be crossing. Utah County has the worst system of roads in the nation. We turned and went up 1600 North in Orem, then down 400 East, then up 1200 North, then down 1100 East until we found the mouth of Provo Canyon.

We road up the bike trail to Vivian Park, when we realized it was already 8:00 and the sun would be going down before we made it back home. We booked it down the canyon and across Orem, but by the time we were coming down 1100 North in Pleasant Grove towards Canyon to take us home, it was too dark. We decided to cross right over Canyon and work our way up 600 West, 2600 North, and 900 West until we got back to Cedar Hills and made it home.

All in all, we did about 35 miles, and 1500 feet of total elevation gain. I don’t have excellent record keeping skills, but I think that’s our longest ride yet. I think I could probably do a 50 mile ride, but there’s no way my butt could handle being in the saddle for 100 miles yet. I don’t know how Charmaine is going to do this Little Red Riding Hood gig.