We had a busy morning, though not all together. This morning I participated in the Goldilocks bike ride, a non-competitive all women's ride. I rode with Janie Rasmussen and her friend Jen Hodnett who we have biked with before. The ride began here in Provo, down at Utah Lake State Park, and had various distances you could ride. There was a 40 and 60 mile distance, but we felt 60 was a bit too far and 40 not quite far enough, so we rode 50 as both of those distances were out and back routes. It was well supported and on roads we were all familiar with, the company was great, we drafted each other and made good time (just over three hours for our 50 miles), and the stops were hopping with music and fun snacks. The only downer was that it rained 47 of the 50 miles we rode. The weather forecast had been for rain Thursday and Friday, but clearing for Saturday. It did clear up, about 3:00 in the afternoon. But our whole ride was about 47 degrees and wet, wet, wet. We tried to draft slightly staggered so we weren't getting splashed directly in the face, but in the last 15 miles, I quit worrying about it and just got sprayed because I was so wet it didn't really matter. I had on four layers of clothings on top, two on bottom, and I was grateful for every layer. We were soaked to the skin when we finished; I wrung out my socks before I got in the car. Not only were we wet, we were dirty for all the road spray. But they had hot chocolate at the end and homemade cookies, plus we got a cute necklace as an end-of-ride prize, and so all was not horrible. We did laugh about the conditions knowing that if it had been any other day, there is no way any of us would have been out biking. But we took it in stride, pedaled away, and made the best of it. I took a 20 minute shower to try and warm up, and then stretched and stretched to try and make sure nothing tightened up uncomfortably. Here are before and after pictures of me, Janie, and Jen. I'm not sure you can really appreciate how wet and dirty we were.
At the beginning.
Jen on the left, Janie on the right.
It hadn't really started raining, so we're dry though still chilly.
At the end.
Soaked, dirty, happy it's over, but pleased to have ridden 50 miles together.
While I was biking, Kent took Brandt and Blythe to a family concert at BYU. The Beverly Taylor Sorenson Foundation and BYU sponsor four free concerts a year, all with different music, all geared to families with children. Today's concert was by the BYU Philharmoic and was called The Musical Zoo. Here is Brandt and Blythe's report. "The concert was really fun. They showed us a picture of a walzing cat and then played what the cat would do or say. The music said, 'me-ow' with a violin and we took out our hands and petted them like a kitty. There was an elephant and they used the biggest instrument, the bass, and they did 'bum bum bum, bum bum bum' (music from Night on Bald Mountain) to make the sounds. They also did a swan and there was a girl named Anna, she's 14, and she had danced on that very stage when she was 2. She had a really beautiful white dress and she was the swan. There was also a donkey (music from Grand Canyon Suite) and they showed us a video of the Grand Canyon with donkeys. There was also a lion and they did brave, bold music. They used a musical map for the lion, following paw prints to a lion head where everyone roared together." How's that for a report! They all really liked the concert and then really liked lunch at Del Taco and yogurt at Yogurtland. Fun, fun, fun for the whole family today.
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