Chicks on adventures

It is so nice to be back on our regular evening rides.   Great turnout on Monday and Wednesday this week.  But we continue to have adventures and are getting some great hill climbing in. 

For Monday's ride we began our normal strawberry farms route, but from the recent rains found out the trail at the beginning of William R. Mason Regional park was closed due to flooding.

Whoops..who wants to slog through the mud puddle?

We turned around and decided to attack Ridgeline.   Becky and Pat had done it a couple of weeks prior on the Tuesday hill climbing class.  They didn't remember it as being too tough.   As Suzanne and I climbed to the top and waited at Turtle Rock Drive for the rest of the group, Suzanne asked, "Whose idea was that again?"   All the chicks completed the climb successfully and we enjoyed a wonderful downhill along Turtle Rock drive to catch up to our trail off of University once again.   Everyone's skills have increased and we were back at the starting park before we knew it.

On Tuesday, Karen, Pat and Theresa attended the hill climbing class put on by Kristen with Two Wheels One Planet Bike Shop.  About 30 people show up and it's a 17 to 20 mile ride full of hills around the Irvine area.  The beginning of the ride is a warm up with the bulk of the group staying together and then as we climbed Ridgeline (all the way to the top) it really separates the men from the boys or shall we say the women from the chicks.   Karen did a fabulous job.  She completed every hill, didn't have to stop and didn't throw up.  That was the real success.   Ask Pat how her ride went.

For Wednesday night's ride we had five chicks in attendance and Pat decided it was Taco time.  So we headed out to Jeffrey to the new Mexican restaurant that Suzanne had pointed out.  Only no one remembered to take a lock and there was no patio seating, so we settled on Chronic taco for a mid ride meal.   No Margaritas or beer though.  We will have to wait until Suzanne is along.

We kept heading down Jeffrey to take the bike trail along the freeway when we were met with another "closed trail" sign.  Well to Chicks that means find a way around.  We checked and although it was fairly new cement, it was dry.   We made our way through the fresh pavement and had a great, fast downhill ride along the freeway back to the San Diego Creek Trail on our way back to the starting park.  Nice ride Ladies!

Who is up for a Sunday ride?  Time to start building some longer mileage.