Two Weekend Rides – BionicOldGuy

On Saturday I did a protracted brisk cruise northeast of Morgan Hill. I took the Coyote Creek path to the primary flooded part, which I detoured round utilizing Monterey Freeway. I rejoined the path at Metcalf Street and went north to Silver Creek Street. I knew one other part was flooded earlier than Hellyer Park, so took one other detour from Silver Creek to Hellyer Ave to the park. I needed to see if I may get to the velodrome however discovered there was nonetheless a 3rd flood proper on the velodrome parking zone. Two weekends from now we’ll be having HPV enjoyable day the place human-powered automobiles of varied sorts can use and race on the observe. This confirmed that we’ll need to get there via the again entrance as a result of there isn’t a method that the flood can be gone in two weeks. I retraced my steps to get house, ending up with a trip of simply over three hours.

On Sunday I went to the Southeast on the agricultural roads via San Martin and Gilroy. I rode for an hour at a brisk cardio tempo and completed up with intervals earlier than my cooldown. I finished by Harvey Bear County Park on the way in which house. This was a pleasing trip on a cool day. The solar lastly got here out in direction of the tip and will stick with us for the remainder of the month.