Spotty Tracking Results Today...
Jacque got a bit of the cabin fever today, even though we went out for a nice date last night. I suggested a bike ride "Down on the Bosque", meaning Albuquerque's wonderful multi-use trail running essentially from Alameda Boulevard to the South Valley down south of Albuquerque Raceway, the collection of salvage and junkyards, around looping back to Bridge via South Broadway. It was well after lunch when we finally arrived at the Albuquerque Bio Park and saddled up to ride. They have started running the Tingley Park Choo-Choo kiddie train, to our delight, except today the "engineer" chugged up to the loading dock at the Bio Park and stopped with his "caboose" parked across the bike path such that we had to wait to cross the rails so we could go through the gate just on the other side of the tracks and ride the pathway. Today they were in no hurry whatsoever, let me tell you. Tinkerbell was with us, and riding in her precious basket on the back of Jacque's recumbent, head peering over her shoulder prettily, and almost everyone entering and exiting the train had to stop and comment and squeal with delight and give her the usual "OOOooohhh, how CUTE!" treatment. One lovely but skeptical lady had the nerve to ask Jacque if iti was "SAFE" for Tink to ride up so high and wouldn't she fall out and get hurt.... Jacque promptly turned around in her bike, snatched the Glory Girl out of the basket, and demonstrated the harness and very short 6" leash-clip that suspends Tink in mid-air if she somehow manages to fall our of the riding basket. This seemed to mollify Miss BusyBody and thus she went away happily.
I could only stand waiting like this for about 15 minutes, much as I adore her adoring crowds almost as much as she does, so I got off and walked the bike around the back of the caboose, across the tracks, through the gate, and onto the trail. I amused myself by making several 100-yard runs up and down the path waiting for Jacque to get through. She finally got tired of waiting, too, and walked HER dog-laden bike around the caboose and through the gate, and of course as soon as she cleared the gate, the silly train began to move.
The train is actually powered by a little putt-putt gasoline engine, not steam or electric, so we easily out-ran it as we all headed south, us on the path only a few feet distant from the train on the tracks across the fence from us.
Beginning Battery Voltage: 12.7 Ending Voltage: 12.5
Ride's Lowest Temperature: 63 degrees F Highest Temperature: 66 F
Stats from the GPS: Total Miles: 11.03
Overall average speed Moving Avg Max Speed
04.3 Mph 6.7 mph 14.6 mph
Total Trip time Moving Time Stopped Time
2 hours 33 mins 1 hour 38 mins 55 mins, 52 secs
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