Day 27 of #30daysofbiking-Edmonds

Another rarity.Seattle had better weather than Portland.  I was wanting to ride a "double cookie" today.   Salem Bicycle Club sponsors the Monster Cookie Metric Century.  For many years I've bike 35 miles to Salem, rode the metric century, then rode back home.  It's a fun ride, but today it was raining there.  It was supposed to rain in Seattle today too, even thunderstorms predicted for the afternoon, but it stayed dry.

I wore my Goretex jacket, just to be prepared, and rode the rain bike.  There was no need as the weather was nice all day.

I rode the rain bike down Queen Anne to Gasworks Park, the starting location for a ride to Edmonds that Arsen had posted for Cascade Bicycle Club.  20 of us met there, 18 of us pedaled out, two others decided that they wanted to do an easier ride so went their own way.

We had a brisk tailwind most of the way to Edmonds.  There were a few hills that slowed us a bit, including one early in the ride up to the zoo.  I did fairly well today keeping with the front of the group most of the time.

As we neared Edmonds there were some really great views across the water toward the Olympic Mountains, but I wasn't about to intentionally drop off the back, and the leader wasn't stopping so no photos today.

As is the norm on Cascade rides, we stopped for lunch/snacks about halfway through the ride in Edmonds.

Joe G photo

 I had a Rice Krispy square.

Edmonds marked the northern end of the ride, so we started back toward Seattle.  That also meant we'd now be riding into the wind.  Wind is a relative thing.  We still pedaled along at 14+ mph. I could gain a few more mph by getting on my aerobars, but there was no need as I was right with the front group anyway.  It wasn't all that bad, but our group did spread out a bit.

We eventually made it back to Gasworks Park, with most of us continuing on to The Dock where adult beverages, jello shots, and bar food kept us occupied for a couple of hours.

It was a fun day, good folks, and not a drop of rain.  Not a  much better way to put a check in the box in front of Day 27 of #30daysofbiking


 ...........road bike..........rollers........mtb.........lifecycle....total
Today.........44................0..............0...............0............44 Jan............710................0..............0...............0...........710
Feb........... 578...............0..............0...............0............578
March ...........701.............0..............0...............0............701
April..........659.................0..............0...............0..........659 Total..........2648...............0..............0...............0.........2648