As stated earlier, I am attempting to rebuild my hip and get back to some form of normality by the end of the year. So it is cross-training season as I work on strength and flexibility, but most activities took a back seat this past week as I spent some time with The Wife. She is off for 10 days shepherding her parents on a little bike tour of the Olympic peninsula, so I wanted to ensure we had some time together before the period of separation. U.S. Highway 101 is the link between us now; our house is just off the highway, she is riding the northern end of the Highway several hundred miles north of here.
I had planned to get up early and do a longish bike ride today, but I was not sleeping well as it was then the light and sound show (lightning and thunder) started in earnest just before 4AM and that was all she wrote for my night of sleep. As I sat around trying to get motivated our friend Erika called to plan a ride, then as I was getting things together to go out she called back to ask for a change to a hike since it was raining at her place, and rationalized it on the basis of us both needing to work on bone density. We met up with another of her friends for a nice, but brisk, trek up Windy Hill from Portola Valley then looping back down. A very pleasant day, and something I should do more often. Now I need to get out tomorrow, and then possibly help to arrange for The Wife to get a spare tire since she had to use her’s today after getting a blowout early on her first day of her tour. Anyone going to Port Angeles area who can carry a 700×32 tire and deliver it to her?