Riding with the famous!

My tailbone is still very sore from that little tumble I took last Wednesday, so I was a little concerned to be joining Mick Walsh today on a ride.  He can kick my butt on my best day, so I was hoping he wouldn't kick it too hard today, after all, I'm somewhat disabled!

I rode down from the Queen Ann neighborhood in Seattle

 and crossed the Freemont Bridge

 then out the Burke-Gilman trail, then followed the Sammamish River trail

to it's terminus at Marymoor Park

where I met Mick as he got off work. We greeted each other, I asked him to be easy on me. :-)

We pedaled off into a headwind at a good solid 20 mph. After about 8-10 miles of this I got a compliment, "for someone who hasn't ridden much this month you aren't too shabby".  Not bad coming from a rider of his caliber. :-)

We continued to pedal quickly and moved right down the trail.  Before too long we had covered the ~25 miles to where he turned toward home.  I continued down the BG trail.  I arrived at the Aurora Bridge and stopped for a photo op.

A statue of Sri Chimnoy stands along the Burke-Gilman trail just below the Aurora Bridge.

I finished up today's ride with a climb the 27% 4th Street back up to Queen Ann..........  just because.



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