sat. ride
Worked early today(5:30am-2:30pm). I spent some time with my sister, daughter, nephews & my parents dog in my parents backyard. And when I say spending time..I meant scooping up dog poo together..
Actually we had a nice time (after the poo). The kids played - bickered - played - bickered(like always). Riley begs to play with Ethan all the time and when I finally take her it always goes like that.
I combed a handfull of hair out of Mac(and tried to teach him to walk on a leash).

I did my ride in the evening. It wasnt a long ride but I really felt good. I rode around the bike trail loop. Its a 3 mile loop that goes along the creek (you cross the creek at the 'g' street bridge and then the McKee bridge. It has some rolling parts and some flat parts. The north side has more rolling parts. On the north side of the creek I got face fulls of little bugs. Biking can't be all perfect...and the bug in the face, eyes, nose, mouth, ears...is one of those not-perfect parts. So I did the round 2 1/2 times both times with pleanty of bugs. I got to the Mc Kee bridge fast and I just could not bring myself to turn left to loop around the north side for a 3rd time so I turned south onto the road and rode home that way. It's a paved, part country road part city road. I turned onto the road that runs along the rail road tracks. I rode past cows then houses and then the school by my house. It was nice going a different way but the road was rough..bumpy. there was maybe 6 inches of shoulder so I was mostly riding on the white line(luckily there wasnt much traffic).
I felt good on my ride. I had The Goo Goo dolls to listen to.

ride time: 00:50:02
10.95 miles
av speed: 13.14
av cadance: 55
max speed: 21.48

Other news:
Someone stole the red blinky light from my seat post. It happened last week when I bike-commuted to work. I locked the bike infront of the building where it's very visible. I say stole because I highly doubt it fell of. It was there(i'm 99% certain) when I chained up my bike. When I got out of work at 10pm it wasnt there. So I'm bummed. I havent had to ride home late since. I'm just upset that I'm going to have to buy another one.