50 Mile Bike Ride

Today, I did the 50 mile bike ride with my boy scouts troop. Yes 50 miles. We started at Regional Park around 8:30 and biked down the cyote creek trail and merged with San Gabriel River trail. Then, turned on Pacific Coast Highway and zoomed down. Rode on Bike Lane on the highway. We shared the road withe the cars. It felt scary at first with the cars going at 50 MPH, but I eventually blended in the cars. It was nice. Went past Seal Beach, then Sunset Beach, Huntington Beach, and then to Newport Beach. We stopped at a McDonalds there and had lunch. It was abt 12 PM. Man, HB is really crowded, especially around that pier. When we stopped, boy my butt was sore from sitting down. It will sure be sore tomrorow.

After lunch, came back the same way. For some reason, it seemed much faster which was probably due to us wanting to get home. Left at 12:40PM and rode. Again, we shared the road with cars and then made a different route coming back. Turned on Seal Beach Blvd and then we made this illegal crossing across the Blvd to this secret path. It was pretty nice. I ran into a deep pothole and my seat got jacked up but I fixed it. And then we got back to Regional Park at around 3:20 PM.

I tested out my new Trek 800, which my dad got last week, and it worked out perfectly. It held up fine. This bike ride was fun. We rode along side the coast and got to see the ocean, although it was mostly an overcast day today. I am glad I accomplised this ride. 50 miles, it wasn't easy.