Can't Touch This!

It was a nice saturday. Partly cloudy, a bit breezy, temp in low 70s. No chance of rain.

So I got the bike out, got ready and took off. Did a fairly long ride - almost 23 miles in total. Wasn't even that sore which is good, considering I've only done a few rides.

Very few people out on the Greenway today, surprising since it was such a nice day. Though one of the parks was completely full of people and kids all doing junior soccer. Guess that was todays activity for the crowd.

Anyway, once I got home, I looked through the data on my cycle computer. And noticed something odd.

Check out my Max speed - 76.2mph! Can't touch that! Yow!

I know the fastest I went on a downhill area was 27.1 mph. And I reset the computer before I started. 76.2 - I wish I could go that fast! I think the cycle computer went a little wonky.

Or my leg muscles are REALLY strong!

Spinnin'

Just a quick photo, with just a little 'tweaking'.

Significance? None, other than its the first time I've been out on the bike since last fall! Been a long time. Took a relatively short but good ride. Need to be riding a little more, but I'm not much of a fan of cycling in cold or windy weather. And that seems to be all we have around here!

Kablam!

Looked outside on a pretty nice January night and WOW what a sunset.

Hurried up and grabbed the camera to snap some photos before it faded away.

Got a couple photos. Had to crop out some foreground but its still a awesome sunset!

Holiday Spirit

Went downtown to watch the nighttime Christmas Parade tonight.

It's held just after dark, and all the entries whether they are cars, floats, people on foot or on horseback, bicycles, you name it are decorated with christmas lights. That's what its all about.

It's pretty hard to get good photos with everything being so dark. Most turn out a little blurry from long exposure times and movement. But here's a couple that aren't too bad.

Fortunately it wasn't too cold or windy, as it sometimes is. Was around 32 degrees with a very light breeze, so for once it wasn't completely numbing. Even though I was pretty cold by time it was over - it's a pretty long parade!

 A vintage fire truck pretty well covered with lights.

A old Yellowstone Park tour bus covered with Christmas lights.

Twisted

Just a few shots from a fall hike. But no fall colors in this set! I promise!

How did this pine tree manage to grow like this? It has a huge twist out and around in its trunk, and ended up growing up straight again. Maybe someone twisted it up when it was young and flexible till it got like this. I'm not sure. It's dead now, as are many pines in the area thanks to the pine beetles. But its still standing, twisted though it may be.

A silhouette of the sky. The clouds look threatening, and it was mostly cloudy today.