NC Bike Week

I think that now it is safe to say that "bike week" has become a tradition in my spring training. Sometimes others join but there is always Colette from Canada. Colette ventures down here after a winter on the trainer to put her first miles in on the bike. Actually many miles in on the bike. We ride every day and try to do at least 100K and a hill. We call this training plan 100K and a hill a day. We ride, as a rule, as slow as we feel like going. We stop for lunch, we stop for pictures, we stop to look a cool places, sometimes we meet other cyclists on the road. We ride no matter what the weather is doing, although for the first time ever we actually called a ride short this year because of pouring rain & cold but really it was the lightning that sent us riding as fast as we could back to the parking lot. We had to end our bike week watching a bad movie on the trainers, but you know even that was fun when you have someone to do it with you! Colette is tough, I don't know anyone else who would/could just jump on their bike in the Spring and ride 300+ miles in a week WITHOUT complaining. That is correct, Colette does not complain, she is fun, she is pleasant, a wonderful guest and over the years has ridden herself right into my heart. Through our love of cycling and the outdoors we have become fast friends. I will always look forward to our bike week when we can catch up and enjoy the beauty this area has to offer.

Some of our rides this year included: The 4th of July bike route up the watershed (of course!), a ride from Brevard up to Pretty Place (a lot of dirt roads in this area), a ride on part of the Mt. Mitchell course and then through Lake Lure, Green River Cove (1st day!) and the Assault on the Carolinas (cut short because of bad weather)