Lake of the Isles

Yesterday there was quite significant morning rain. It stopped before noon and after it stopped there were a couple of interludes during the afternoon when a ride was possible. But it was always very windy and finally I just let it go.

Today dawned much cooler but windy again. It was 68 with a 15-25mph wind when we set off at 10am with jackets on. The wind was pretty much straight out of the west so we tried a completely new route which for a significant portion of the ride was straight west. Obviously, given where we live and start our rides from, this led us into Minneapolis.

We rode the Midtown Greenway for the first time. I will say that for a Sunday morning there were a lot more people out using the trail than I expected.

We reached a turn around on the western fringes of the City of Minneapolis at Lake of the Isles, Guest Rider for prespective. It had warmed enough by this time that the jackets went into our back pockets.The wind was very strong and the ride was pretty hard. After the turn around we both felt exceptionally strong.

As we neared home we had to do some dodging around to avoid road construction, both the projects which we were previously aware of, and a new project that we discovered on the way out while trying to avoid the projects that we were aware of. As a result we rode through the Fairgrounds again. Here is another look at that boat sale.Careful examination reveals a complete absence on these boats of any boat registration numbers. This supports the position set out by the boat girl that these are not used boats at all but are new.

It was actually warm enough once we got out there and we were strong enough to get to the turn around so it was a nice ride. But even with the favorable conditions on the return we ended up well exercised. Which is, of course, the reason why we do it.