Nearly 200 miles (300km) ride on a glorious, sunny but cool day.
Breakfast at Ellijay, short stop at Morganton, coffee break at the popular bikers’ place – Two Wheels in Suches (picture from there) and then back home.
The inset will show some additional adventure we had. Had to pull over by the highway due to a flat tire in one of the bikes.
We had reached our destination during our motorbike ride this morning and all of us pulled over for a coffee. The whole area (Dahlonega) is a very popular place for bikers – especially on a great sunny weekend day like today.
We were all having coffee and watching the other bikes and bikers when we saw this really cool thing happen. A bike pulled up to the traffic light and stopped.
THE RIDER HAD A DOG SITTING BEHIND HIM!!
The dog had a seat belt strapping him down to his seat. As we started excitedly pointing each other towards that bike, the dog casually turned around and looked at us.
IT HAD SUNGLASSES ON !!!
And then nonchalantly rode off with his rider as the signal turned green!
Haven’t seen something this cool in quite some time!!
Lately, I have been going thru a running rut. I cannot seem to get enthused to go for the long runs that I used to love. Worse, these days after a couple of miles, I feel tired and out of breath. I guess age is starting to slow me down.
Last night, I wrote to a few of the old long distance runner friends to see if running with the old friends might get my energy back. Lia agreed to run a 10 miler with me. It has been a long time since I have run 10 miles. In fact, I checked my record book – that was on Feb 3rd.
I got hungry, tired and wanted to quit after a few miles today too. But thanks to Lia, I continued to keep up with her and finally managed to finish 10 miles.
I think I am going to run with the long distance runner friends of mine till I can get back to my old energy level.
Thank you Lia for keeping me going.
