A mostly dry day!

It was predicted to be a very wet day in Seattle.

No matter, Julie and loaded bikes (I opted for the fixie today) and drove to Tukwilla through a steady rain to join another rider. Maybe yesterday's ride shamed them into it today?
We arrived at Bicentennial Park in Tukwilla and were happy that there was a lull in the rain.  We chuckled when we asked Brita if she had heard the forecast, and she replied "no".  We took off toward Alki via the Green River Trail.  With the recent heavy rains and some melting snow the river was high and discolored.  If the pioneers had seen it first in this condition they likely would have named it the "Chocolate River" rather than the "Green River".

We pedaled along the Green River trail, but the water we followed changed name from the Green River to the Duwamish River.  It is a tangled web of Black, Green, White, Cedar, and Duwamish on how this could happen. If you are interested, you can read about it HERE.

We had a 15 mph tailwind on the way out, but no rain.  We stopped for some snacks at Tully's Coffee and spent about 45 minutes there before venturing back out.  The time there would come back to bite us.

The return was quite a bit slower as we were now riding into that wind.  We stopped along the Duwamish Waterway for a photo from a little upstream of the one I took yesterday.

Before shoving off the girls got into the picture for posterity.

Shortly after the photo stop we got a light shower.  We'd have them on and off for the rest of the ride. As we rolled back into Bicentennial Park it really started coming down.  If we had just cut that lunch stop short we'd have had a dry ride.

It was a fun ride.

 ............road bike..........rollers........mtb.........lifecycle....total
Today..........34................0..............0...............0............34 Jan.............710................0..............0...............0...........710
Feb........... 380...............0..............0...............0............380 Total..........1090...............0..............0...............0...........1090