Senior Citizen Cruise Tour

 Just out exercising.  2 days in a row is rare nowadays but supposed to rain 🌧 tomorrow and I was lazy this week.  🤪 Few rain drops but just enough to dirty my 😎 shades.

More later

The YT video

No real changes to the golf course or the surrounding trail....YET !!!

Scary sheot around the dark tunnel entrance

Kept it easy, easy HR

New Socks Tour & Met Emmitt S. 🏈

  Actually Emmitt S. From Strava. New rider but very serious and determined. Cool Dude 😎 Met at the Peck Rd Water Conservation Park having a good chat. New socks from Aerotech so had to try them out. 3 for $20 but of course shipping takes it close to 30. But decent socks. Gina likes them, said they're soft. 😁 Of course I had to snap a few pics of the socks in action. Pretty much the Emerald Necklace loop, out and back. 

Dude Emmitt was really cool. Only cycling 4 months and already doing some really good rides. 70 and 100 coming up in a week or two. Seemed really excited about cycling, good for him! Exchanged kudos on Strava but I noticed he was not on the fly bys. So I mentioned it figuring he would get a kick out of it being new to Strava as well and having a lotta friends already. He didn't know about it so he said he's going to look into it.

                                                          New Aerotech shorts and socks.

I have to say good things about Aerotech customer service. Honestly, I was a little upset because I ordered solid black socks but some reason, they sent white with black stripes. Felt like I was back in the 1970's ha ha ha! Immediately I sent an email to one of the reps and not a nice one I have to say. The second he got it, he said they were sending out the correct 3 pair of socks and a return label so that I could send the incorrect shipment back.

I was really happy because some of the other things I have ordered on the net that turned out incorrect, I would have to send back, have it processed and approved then they would send the correct item. I call bull sheot on this method. I mentioned it to the CS rep, I said it was there freaking mistake and I was going to have to wait 3 weeks now for the process? He was great, sent and email immediately stating they were sending out the correct socks that day. Awesome, no waiting like I thought and 3 days later, there they are on the doorstep. Appreciated !!!

So of course, another email with a %15 discount on the 8+ hour shorts? I ordered a 3rd pair. The first two felt so good that Gina suggested I order another pair. Who and I to argue?

I had a good time with the first Black Bibs I ordered with the red pad. Felt good but the next order I got was a green new updated pad. Just can't LIKE that one! It seems to stick on my skin. You know what it's  like having a pad stick to your balls for 40 miles? Ha ha ha! This Aerotech pad is rather slick and much more comfy. Of course $119 vs the $35 of the Black Bibs. Seemed worth it with the first couple pair but the new style, like I said, I just can't like the pad and like Gina says, even at 3 times the price, it's worth it if they work and feel much better. Who am I to argue? 😆😁😆

Freddy Diamond (Guitar)

Your wife is so sweet!!! WHT, what about me?! 🤣 First off, time for a $6.99, uh $7.49 breakfast special at Millie's. 😫 Went up 50 cent but still best deal in town. So went to the mall after then a lady that works here comes up and says," I LIKE YOUR WIFE, SHE IS SO SWEET!!!". 😊 What the......, I get no respect! 😩

 Haven't picked up my guitar but a couple of times in the last 3 or 4 years so here I am. Just trying to see if I can still play or not. After today, I'm wondering if I could ever really play at all ha ha ha!

                                                                         Freddy Diamond 💎

                                              The Cars / Beanz, Best Friend's Girlfriend 😆😁😆

Solo 60 SART 106 degrees 🔥

 Solo 60, somebody's got to do it. Drinking boiling water and fluids most of the way. Met some cool people having to stop at Edna Park on the return. One dude at the park must have thought I looked hot because he offered to ride back with me. I appreciate looking out for fellow cyclists even though I refused the offer. Good guy!!! Saw Ron and Dixie as they were heading back. I called out but they didn't look too coherent. The heat!!! 🔥 Water over the head trick. 😄

The YT video

Gal getting ready for an Iron Man in a couple weeks.

Cool chick on the trail

Plenty of people on the trail today

Dad teaching the kid!

Jose R. and his group

Freaking wind! 139 bpm at 11 MPH

Dinner last night to carb up. I don't think it helped. 😄

Went to Sizzler after the ride thinking I was going to eat a lot but had achard time getting it down. Ate the meat off the ribs,  most the rice, the shrimp 🍤 but only one bite of the steak.  Food just wouldn't go down tonight.

But our girl Angelina did make sure to reserve a table for us. We each had our own reserved sign ha ha ha!

 

Alright Suckuhhhhs !!! $23 at Macy's. Got a magic bullet. Have a Ninja but that thing is SOOOO LOUD. Been wanting to get back to my vegetable smoothies so got this MB tonight. I hate veges so making a smoothie out of them, veges and ice only with maybe a berry to hide the vege taste works well. Tested it a few minutes ago but only had a cucumber, peach, and an orange. Works well and not nearly as loud as the Ninja. Now I can get back to getting in veges with the pulp and all where the nutrition lays. The juice from the mall is cool but lacks the pulp as it is from a juicer. I want it all! 😄 Worked well and cleaned up well, I'm back in bidness.

YES YES YES !!! This is what I've been wanting. Vegetable smoothie with the good stuff in it. Juice is ok but I want the pulp etc. I can take in spinach this way seeing I hate it ha ha ha! Maybe someday I'll be like Popeye! 😁 A few dark berries to taste it up a bit but didn't do much. Maybe I'll skip the berries though it does make it look purtier than just an ugly poop green. 🤮

Emerald Horseshoe Tour 😄

 

Solo 41 today.  Emerald Horseshoe Tour 😁 Popular course Emerald Necklace but I wanted at least 40 so I did the Emerald Horseshoe from Encanto Park.  That makes hitting The Damn Dam Climb at 36 miles vs 10 when I used to start at the golf course.  🤣 Powered by Los Jarritos last night.  😋

Ain't terrible what all them bikes with motors do? E-bike, E-moto, mini bikes, they're all destructive idiots of all types.  Even thrashed the lookout point at the airport.  No reason,  just stupid people and they all freaking cry when I say I will never ride one.

            Dang it, had to do this upper section 4 times. Some walker kept photobombing my shot.

That's a pretty big sock and I could make jokes about it but I won't ha ha ha!

Los Jarritos in Claremont on Foothill Rt 66. Nobody makes a chile relleno like they do. I never cared for the CR but had one here years ago then started going here just for that reason. Opened another in LJ in La Verne, used to be The Tenderloin steak house. I remember them saying this would be the new home for LJ once they tore down the strip mall on Garey to build condos but didn't happen. Ended up taking the building in Claremont that used to be our favorite Casa Jimenez. So finally talking the store in La Verne after a year or so. The waitress told us that it is a little more upscale of a shop but hours are 8 am to 3 pm. Hmm,, one thing I always liked about LJ was that it was a small hole in the wall shop but since the son took over the joint, seems he's trying to go a little high class. Well, the prices are now ha ha ha! But the food is still good but have no plans to check out the upscale location. I just go to eat, forget the fancy lamps blah blah blah, just give me a chile relleno ha ha ha!

GMR What Was I Thinking Tour / Sizzler Connections

 What was I thinking? Freaking hot but I wanted to test a little on GMR just to get used to some climbing again. Wanted at least the first 4 and if I could do more,  great.  But heck no with temps in the 90's 🥵 Starting from Encanto Park is going to be a different story compared to the golf course.  Nuttin' but hills. 🤣

I really think the pooped ride I did the other day really affected this ride. That and the heat. The gal in the video went to the shack where I hoped I would go but later seeing her ride on Strava, I realized she only did like 17 and started from the bottom of GMR somewhere. I rode across Sierra Madre which is actually some good climbing itself. So I'm thinking that got me and if I had started at the bottom of GMR as I usually do, I would have made it to the shack. 

Good thing is on the return, I was heading back across Sierra Madre, heading west when I dropped down Grand wanting a few more miles. I ran across a street called Bennet  that runs along SM but with a nice bike lane. It goes to Barranca so I went down to Old Foothill then west to Citrus, down to Foothill Rt 66 then west. Nice ride back with a bit more climbing back up to Sierra Madre then the trail.

So a good learning experience figuring I will probably have to do this ride several more times seeing the trail will be closed, as well as the golf course in Pico. So hey, a little taste of GMR is a good starting point for now and more to come! I do have a couple of buddies axin' about GMR. So a little head start and reminder is good ha ha ha!

The video

Hey, at least I got a pretty good pic while I was up there!

She was looing good!

Of course I can't count the times cyclists on forums complain about others polluting the environment.  2 punctured tubes thrown on the side of the road 

🤣

Post ride meal 😋 

What do you think, do we got connections at Sizzler? ...and 3 of the girls are missing. 😄😁😄