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Party Pardee

I drove up to Ione Saturday morning and began the 70km route at about 8:30.

First rest stop:

My top speed on a downhill on a very smooth road was 40 mph. Some roads, on the other hand, were quite rough.

Pardee Reservoir:

46 miles – whew! a long ride. Thank you e-bike.

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Volleyball

Avery had a volleyball game this evening and it was a bit of a rout. In fact when the other team scored their first point late in the first set, the entire room clapped. Thais and I joked it took longer for me to drive one way to the game than the game itself.

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Baseball

Only one parent available to get three children to three different locations at almost the same time. Grandma to the rescue. I took Avery to Ciavarella Park at 4:00 for pre-game practice followed by a 5:00 game.

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B St Theatre

Terri and I parked near the theater and walked to Obo for lunch before the play.

Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense. Sometimes I don’t appreciate a play until a couple of days later. This time, the skill of three actors performing so many different roles was pretty amazing even though I had a hard time following the story line. And I didn’t know Jeeves and Wooster was a British tv series in the early 1990s.

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Smart Cycling – part 2

Saturday. Everyone from Tuesday night came met at the Jibe office for the bicycling part of the class. The group was divided into two groups. Charlie and Doug worked with one group.

Gina and I worked with another group which included everyone who wants to move on to the LCI seminar. We rode a route in the neighborhood which included a few teaching stops. I rode sweep for the first part. Here, a left turn onto Natomas Blvd .. a great example of doubling up at an intersection with (almost) everyone in power pedal position waiting for the light to turn green.

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PRS @ HAH

I was the only LCI available to lead the final day of Project Ride Smart and H Allen Hight – the bike “rodeo”. Three 10-minute rotations. Charlie did the Slow Race:

BarbaraL led a weaving course called Rattlesnake Rumble:

Kathy led the Bottle Cap Drop:

I was the timer and general organizer. Four very excited classes of enthusiastic 5th graders who were just a couple of hours away from the beginning of spring break. If you’re a retired teacher, you know what I mean by “enthusiastic.”

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Adult Learn to Ride

Wednesday evening. We had 15 people signed up with 3 LCIs and 2 volunteers. We worked out of the Bike Tech classroom at Inderkum. We prepped 15 bikes by removing all the pedals and pumping up tires before the evening’s students arrived. Lennore, Paul, BarbaraL, Kathy, and Anya from Jibe were invaluable in getting everything ready.

Selecting a bike and getting ready for the balance and glide phase.

And then we got quite busy. So much success and lots of smiling faces. Many were successful and plan to sign up for Level 2. A few will return for the next Level 1 class. Just one left early and said bicycling was too hard.