Labor Day Holiday Riding !

Today's Rio Grande Track

Today is Labor Day 2017 and Jacque and I had planned to ride the chairlift up to Sandia Crest, stomp around the top of the mountain for a bit, eat a snack or a meal at the Crest Restaurant, and ride back down.
Nothing doing, of course.  Thankfully Jacque checked their website before we drove up the mountain:
The entire mountain is shut down due to destruction/construction, bear scares, and fire danger.
So, we had to come up with a new activity.  Thankfully we both enjoy cycling so what the heck, we decided to trailer the Tandem Terratrike into Albuquerque and again ride the enjoyable Bosque Trail.
The poor Terratrike has been neglected the last few months, parked under the deck without any riders to keep it in trim.  I had to take it down to the tool shed and top off the tires with air and dust off the GPS and radio screens.
It was a pleasant morning but by the time we got rolling on the trail it was getting very warm.  The Bosque Trail was well  populated with folks exercising the same idea we were... cyclists, walkers, baby strollers, old folks, young folks, everybody came..... it was fun.
It's always fun to encounter kiddos younger than 20 or so.  They almost always express delight in meeting us and especially the dogs in the rear basket on the back of the tandem trike.
It's always a curiosity to encounter the speed racers on trails.  At least half of the other cyclists wave or say HI or both, but almost never the speed racers.   Swooshing along, bent furiously over the dropped handlebars, tightly clad in racing clothes emblazoned with brand names... no time to even grimace or look sideways as they zip around and away into the horizon.
We cruised along quite well, in spite of not being in the best of condition.  The farther we went, of course, the warmer it got, and on the northern leg of the trail the tree-shade is often spotty or totally lacking.
When we occasionally found shade, we took advantage of it with water and rest breaks.  The heat eventually got bothersome enough that we decided to turn around, short of our goal (Paseo Del Norte underpass).
Still, we feel we achieved some respectable miles and enjoyed some interactions with fellow travelers on the trail and -as usual- at Tingley Beach.
No pictures or video today, since the main thing we forgot was the GoPro camera.

Ride Started: 11:35 AM    Ride Ended:  2:07 PM
Beginning Battery Voltage:   13.2  Ending Voltage: 12.7  Lowest:  12.7 
Beginning Blood Glucose:  159   Ending BG Reading: 71 
Lowest Temp  82F      Highest Temp:  84F   
Stats from the GPS:    Total Miles:  15.21 
Overall average speed            Moving Avg               Max Speed  
5.7 MPH                                7.5 MPH                  19.9 MPH 
Total Trip time                       Moving Time             Stopped Time 
2 hours 38 mins                     2 hours  1 min           37 minutes