I rode with my friend and Yellow Jacket colleague Midori, from her house down Seminary and out Havenscourt and 66th Avenue to the wetland preserve in M. L. K. Waterfront Park. I haven’t been there in ages; Oakland has been working to restore the Bay wetlands, and it’s a great place to ride and hang out, especially at high tide. A piece of the Bay Trail. We stopped and looked at the water. Then on Doolittle (into the wind) and around Harbor Bay and over the bike bridge to Alameda. We stopped to visit Diana at Edison School. I showed Midori the way up 38th to MacArthur and over to Calaveras to the intersection of Fair Ave. where I left her to ride home alone. The idea was to get in an easy, flat ride; Midori had just finished her interval session on Monterey (I think she said four sets of four minutes: she’s training seriously!) and my hamstrings were still sore and tight, in spite of extensive stretching and the foam roller. Well, it was a good day for spinning, and even the three hills went by easily. 22.26 miles (slightly more than yesterday) @ 10.8 mph. Not bad.
