It was easy to talk myself out of running today… maybe a little too easy. The weather was great and Charmaine wanted to go for a bike ride. How could I say no to that?

We rode our usual route up through Alpine, past the camels, back down to Westfield Road, across to Sun Crest Drive, and back home. The last time we tried to ride it, Charmaine got a flat tire, but we didn’t have any trouble today. I forgot to turn on the GPS on my phone (RunKeeper), so I only have the data from my crappy bike “computer”. It took us a little over an hour to go about 16 miles. We took the flat sections nice and easy and really tried to focus on climbing the hills fast (or at least keeping our minimum speed higher than normal). I think it worked out really well.