It rained a while earlier this afternoon, but seemed to be clearing up by 5 PM, so I talked Jacque into taking the Tandem Terratrike up to the Dog Park. Tink and Lilly came too, of course, in the back basket.
It's very close to 4 miles away, and involves some mild incline-climbing, and we have to ride Jefferson for about half a mile and then ride the sidewalk/bike path up East on San Antonio, meaning we cross the frontage road on both sides of I-25 and make a hard right onto the sidewalk/bike path at the base of the hill below Cracker Barrel Restaurant.
This leads to an old seldom-maintained path roughly parallelling San Antonio up to Louisiana, where we turned north onto a fairly decent bike lane on that street. Traffic is never too heavy on Louisiana this far north and it was a pleasant ride.
Coming back the other way, the mild hills we climbed turned into pleasant downhill coasting most of the way.
Jacque forgot to bring any pain pills for her new knee but she seemed to do OK. Of course she was a bit sore by the time we got back but so far, cycling seems to really strengthen her and speed up her recovery and full use of the replaced knee.
As for my now-noticeable left trick knee, it gets tired when pedaling AND feels better after doing a few miles, with less "tricking" incidents. Hoping MY knee doesn't wind up going under the knife......
I very much enjoy these type of rides because we used the trike to actually GO somewhere for a purpose, not just joy riding. The dogs had a good time riding, a better time sniffing and pooping at the dog park, and we had a good time doing it.
Ride Started: 5:56 PM Ride Ended: 7:47 PM
Beginning Battery Voltage: 13.1 Ending Voltage: 13.1 Lowest: 12.9
Lowest Temp 75 F Highest Temp: 78 F
Stats from the GPS: Total Miles: 7.94
Overall average speed Moving Avg Max Speed
5.5 MPH 6.2 MPH 20.7 MPH
Total Trip time Moving Time Stopped Time
1 hour 27 mins 1 hour 17 mins 10 minutes
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