Lovely Lobitos Creek

After our sweatfest climbing Kings Mountain, we descended Tunitas Creek to the Bike Hut.  Lots of cyclists on Tunitas Creek; felt like a traffic jam.  We had goose bumps because the temperature dropped from 90+ to coastal breeze.  I was shivering for a short while. 

11 people turned out for this club ride.  Lots of laughter along the way.  And a new road for me to explore to my delight -- Lobitos Creek.  Loved it.

 More of Lobitos, oh no, and more climbing.  It meets up with Tunitas Creek and of course, more climbing.  And more sweating.  My hair was drenched.  I met two guys, no you say, towards the end of Tunitas Creek and we raced off into the sunset.  Okay, not really, the part about the sunset.  It was pretty warm descending Kings Mountain.  I sweated so much on this ride that I think I ought to be done with hot flashes....

Just the Stats:

33 miles
~4200 feet total climbing
9.2 avg mph
27 mph descending somewhere
3 hr 32 min

Birds and Bees

Got out on the Specialized Hybrid seeking cooler weather, so, off to Alviso.  On the Guadalupe trail, some kamikase like bees tried to thwart my adventure.  They should know better than to mess with me.  I arrived in Alviso intent on cycling the bay but the smell of bird doo doo and sulfur was too much, so, I biked through Alviso over to a different area of this wonderful refuge. 

These guys were adorable.  Their eyeballs were enormous and the way they strutted through the water was so cute.  The noise they made.  Their lives sound complicated.

I admired the view, well, more importantly, I am thankful for all the people involved in restoring wetlands and the creatures that call this home.

Hicks Um Um Um

I almost passed on Donny's Hicks both sides and Mt. Um ride today, not because of the hot temperature but because I was reading a torrid article in the ever engaging J of Homotopy and Related Structures.  Just suppose X is a projective toric scheme defined over a ring R ...  like I know what any of this means.

What if!  Oh my Gosh, the suspense was killing me.  Might there be a splitting result for the algebraic K-Theory of projective toric schemes?

What a nail biter.  A cliff hanger.  Sure ....  So, I put the article under my pillow, to await for bed time and future chitchat at cocktail parties.  Off to I went to join fellow cyclists for the ride.

Talk about hot and steamy.  Okay, it wasn't that hot but it was warming up.  I had to pause to cool down on Hicks (the shorter side) before continuing to Mt. Um.  Lookey, the end is getting nearer.

I huffed and I puffed.  Yeah, I made it up Mt. Um with only one quick stop on account of the fact that there were these 2 male rangers that I just knew wanted to hear all about toric schemes.

Not sure how many people did the entire ride.  Dr. G and I decided to pass on the other Hicks.  He treated me with a diet coke at the end.  That sure hit the spot.  We managed to do 24.59 miles.