It's been several days of Wind and Afternoon Rains! Today was a day with a very small rain chance but the HEAT is back! 90 F, Sunny, breezy. One of our normal rides with the most shade along the route is the Midland Trail. Headed downtown over the Colorado Ave bike lane to America the Beautiful Park, stopped for a shade break and to fill water bottles! Butter'ed up with sunscreen and headed west towards Manitou Springs. We rode the Midland until it turned into the Creek Walk Trail, headed to the current end of the concrete trail, turned around by the Manitou Springs, Chamber of Commerce over a bridge back to the trail.
Headed East back to Schryver Park for break and then headed back along the Creekwalk Trail back to the Midland Trail.
Stopped at Field's Park to get a photo of the trikes with the new giant flower statue, that's also a "Contemplating Bench" for kids!
We followed the trail to 25th. Street and got off on back streets till Walnut St. bike lane due to "intersection reconstruction" at 21st. Street and Hwy. 24. Walnut Street bike lane to the Mesa Springs Greenway, took the pedestrian bridge over I-25 to Monument Valley Park, potty break, then found a bench in the shade and ate our homemade, diabetic trail mix. Picked up the bike lane by Colorado College to the Cascade St. bike lane heading North. Took that all the way to the turn off for our Storage Unit, put the trikes in the unit and then took a HOT walk back to the apartment!
Note: we noticed that "Sunscreen" doesn't last half as long in 90 F heat, suppose to last, 80 minutes we put on more every 30-40 minutes and that worked well but uses a LOT of sunscreen!! Thursday, we have to go Food and Supplies, shopping, going to get and get going early to avoid the afternoon heat, 95 F is tomorrow's forecasted temps, YIKES, we now know how a piece of "frying bacon" feels like! ;)
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