Back to the Iron Horse
I was determined to bike today, as weekends have been taken up by tons of other stuff lately (and, again, next weekend). I was much more surprised to hear that K. was interested in biking with me today, as her back pain as been keeping her away.

Thus, we decided to head over the hills to Contra Costa Country. It's got lots of beautiful trails, and I wanted to ride one of them, as we're just on the verge of hitting summer hard enough that it gets too warm over there.

So, I offered K. a number of choices of rides, and we decided on the Iron Horse Trail, which we ended up riding from Dublin to Pleasant Hill. It was much as I remembered, except the ride was much easier this time, partially I suspect because I knew exactly where I was going, and partially because I've continued to get in better shape since Thanksgiving when I rode this last. The Alamo-Danville area wasn't quite as pretty as it was in late November, when the green-way has become a brown-red-and-yellow-way thanks to the autumnal leaves, but it was still very nice.

Of course, one of the nice things about living in this area, is as the seasons shift we can move our biking area. When it gets a little warmer, we can still ride comfortably in the east bay, and a little warmer than that and we can do some riding in San Francisco.