Getting ouf of the heat

Prescott!

This weekend, I had been planning to go for a nice, long, and painful ride, but I woke up late on Saturday, and realized it was +102 outside.

It is only a couple hours from my house to Prescott, Flagstaff, or Sedona, so I figured I could make the driver up there to get some miles in. Sometimes you have to just say "fk it" and go and do things that are out of your normal routine. I could have sucked it up and went to PMP Trial 100, or to F.I.N.S. But I wanted something else for today!

I hit up some of my friends who ride, but with such short notice, no one could go.

I felt guilty leaving Jessica at home, while I drove up north for a few hours, to ride a few more hours and then drive back a few more hours, but she hit up one of her friends and went and hung out - which is a good thing, Jessica never spends time with friends without me - At least, that is how I justify the guilt.

I headed out at 11:40 am, temp outside showed 102. I also missed the exit to prescott, not once, but twice, going north AND going south... I was pretty frustrated about the potential lost riding time.

You must understand, riding is Serious Business. It is not something to take lighthearted, and when you take pictures of yourself, you must maintain the absolute most serious face you can muster. Can you see my sexy stumpy in the back? Hrm, that sounds like the start to a dirty joke...

Well, I arrived at Lynx Lake, was $5.00 for parking, and it was well worth it, this is somewhere I will definitely come again, and there is a variety of things to do here. Fishing, boating, camping, sightseeing, plus it was 15 degrees cooler than phx, and it was about a 2 hour drive.

Oh look, my face again... jeez. Look behind me tho! Its awesome

After checking out the trails on the sweet free trail map, I decided to head out on the 305. The problem is, that I decided to head north to the top of 305 before coming back down... At some point there, I got lost and ended up on some god awful Hiking only trail. It was beautiful, don't get me wrong, but mostly unrideable. I ran into a lady, who albeit was super kind and helpful, was a little scary with her no bra, perhaps she was dowsing for water? She had a fluffy golden retriever with her, who apparantly, thought I was too hot, so he ran into the water then back to me and dried himself off... all over me. He was a cute dog.

Unfortunately I didn't get very many pictures, and not a whole lot of trail pictures. Between nursing my still sore ribs, and enjoying the thrill of these trails, I couldn't stop long enough to get many shots.

Another self indulging picture of myself. Believe me, I don't like my face any more than you do, and when more people ride with me, I'll have pics of them... I promise!

Back at the car, packing up - I will definitely be back here at some point, this place is awesome! The fact you can refill your water, with COLD water, is amazing.

Needed some more pics before I left. Look at how amazing this place looks!


There is a restaurant right there at Lynx Lake, but the only thing that was veggie friendly, was deep fried - so I left.







Details from Strava - I swear I did more miles, wonder if me forgetting to turn my GPS back on is what lost mileage...

Hrm, can't seem to figure out how to post strava data...

Will try garmin data when I get home... sorry for the crappy blog entry.

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