Hello everyone,

I'm doing this post at Karen's request. She asked to see photos of any of my recent bike rides since I haven't posted in a while. I haven't had many big rides, at leas that I thought were worth sharing or ones that I had time to stop and take photos (hard to do when I am with other or choose a route that is all roads... cars don't appreciate my need to stop and take snaps on narrow winding back roads).

I haven't had a chance to do any metric century or really long rides in a while. But hopefully that will change soon, i just have to find one that looks like my legs wont walk off in protest after 5,000ft in climbing.

I've been trying to do more climbing, making it up and over larger hills both on road and off. Some with more success then others. Apparently in some situations you can only tell yourself 23 times "just get over the next hill" before deciding to turn around. But the tops of hills are where the best views are and If I ever wish to travel far and wide hills will eventually get in the way, so better to learn to get over them then go around.

The end of my first year back on the bike was last month on June 16th. So my total miles for the first 365 days back on the bike came to: 2,322.52 miles. Not too shabby. Think how far I could travel in 2,322 miles...

Apologies if I have posted these before, I can't remember what my last post was.

My first big uphill ride through the winding hills along side the Calaveras Reservoir.



A beautiful ride along Lake Chabot through the redwood hills of Oakland, CA.




Morgan Territory Road widning it's way up behind Mt. Diablo. This ride kicked my *kitten*, dragged it around the road and then sent me racing downhill to escape.




Beautiful Redwoods Regional Park, a grove of redwoods in the middle of a city... and a punishing ride



Coyote Hills amongst the salt flats of San Fransisco bay