Adrienne and I both got our second shots today at Natomas High School about 2 hours apart. After Ade’s appointment, we met at Baskin Robbins for celebration ice cream. And I got to meet Ade’s new roommate, Chloe, a mini Golden Doodle.
This was our first combined bike ride with the participants from Better on Bikes sessions 1 and 2. Some of us rode over to Wild Rose Park and met a few people from BoB 2 who live on the east side of I-5. Then we rode a 10-mile loop. It was great to see everyone getting to know each other, lots of riding tips were shared. Cheryl, Jane, Jonathan, Leo, Terry, Maria, Cathy, Dani, Kathy:
My bedroom clock is sitting on the ironing board. I have time targets for presenting the material. In exactly 4 minutes, at 5:25, I logged into the Zoom class and Lesson 3 began …
Thursday Feb 25: Barbara, Jane, Leo, Kathy, and Cheryl rode along the Sacramento River Trail to Scott’s Seafood. 24 miles.
Friday Feb 26: Tour d’Arlete (which now has 1/3 fewer Arlete’s btw – one lamppost is being repaired and recent high winds took another). 16 miles. Leo, Kathy, Cheryl, Cindy:
Sunday Feb 28: While some of us were at Office Hours, Barbara lead a ride to Scott’s Seafood. 24 miles. Barbara, Cheryl, Mary, and Jane:
Monday Mar 1: We rode south to get on the Garden Highway and headed north to the airport (not around it) on N Bayou Rd and home. 20 miles. All of us like riding the Garden Highway, very few cars, no stopping, and beautiful scenery. Cindy, Cheryl, Leo Carmen, Jonathan:
Cindy and I planned to ride over to Inderkum High School for Office Hours and meet other Better on Bikes II participants. There are more people from the east side of I-5 so this time, the parking lot at Inderkum HS was a better choice. However, I got a flat tire about a mile from home. We came up with a quick plan: Cindy would ride back and get my vehicle with bike rack. As she rode away, here came Kathy who has changed a few flat tires in her lifetime. She used to be a bike racer. She was fast. In fact, her goal was to have it fixed and the bike put back together before Cindy got back. As it turned out, the tire never would hold air. Time for a new tube. Only later, was the nail in the tire discovered – should have checked for that.
We got to Office Hours on time and had a great session with Cindy, Kathy, Theresa, Ginger, and Terry. And Cindy loaned me her ebike for the short ride we did.
Merrilyn is totally vaccinated and I’m halfway there so we “risked” it and got together for a visit. We were both in veggie mode. Toasted walnut hummus with pita crackers and raw vegetables and – a favorite recipe of Phyllis – Veggie Bars.
I have already logged into the Zoom class. Here we go … Lesson #2 …
On Valentine’s Day, we rode to downtown Sacramento to check out the new Slow Streets closures on 26th St, O and V Sts. Katie Valenzuela, City Councilperson for this area and a few volunteers manned an information table near Sutter’s Fort. 23 miles round trip. Below – Carmen, Barbara, Cheryl, me, Jonathan, Katie, and a volunteer who gave us all boxes of candy hearts:
Tu Feb 16: Barbara, Cheryl, Pat and Jonathan rode to Miller Park and back. 20 miles.
Wed Feb 17, we rode the Bannon Creek Loop – 12 miles. Amal, Cindy, Cheryl, Jonathan:
Sat Feb 20, we rode to Rio Linda via the Sacramento Northern Bike Trail then cut over to the Dry Creek Parkway Trail to the end at the Cherry Island Soccer Fields. When we rode back, we took a bumpy dirt road past the Dry Creek Ranch House then Curved Bridge Rd to “downtown” Rio Linda before taking the Sac Northern home. 29 miles. Pat Cheryl, Jonathan, Jane, Barbara, Leo:
The second round of classes started last Tuesday with a Zoom class in the early evening.
On Sunday, we met for “Office Hours” at Inderkum High School. Cindy, Maria, Theresa, JoAnne, and Ginger:
As we rode along the levee, just above the bike trail, the pelicans took a break from their feasting to check us out.
There must have been some good food down there because it didn’t take long for them to stick their heads back in the water.
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