Well today I did it... I rode the entire way from Issaquah to Redmond, 13 miles one way.

The ride was full of pain, sorrow, happiness, and even tears...

I started out at my place at 5:55am and then headed down black nugget topping out at 45 mph. Then I headed down North West Sammamish rd in front of Costco where the bike lane ends and says to use the path next to the side walk. So I took that path and down toward the end near the AMPM there are some wooden bridges that were very wet. It would have been nice to have some notification they were there and that the bridges are slippery etc... So I hit the last bridge and my bike few out from under me and I fell. I will be sending mail to Issaquah city about this one

So I got up and there was suppose to be a bike stop put on by Issaquah city and Issaquah Ski and Cycle next to where my wipe out was. But they were not there...

I kept going down NW Samm. and made my way behind the elementary school where the I-90 bike path is. I was flying down the path when it curved left and down a small hill then back right again with a rock wall right in front of me... I was just starting to notice the path was covered in moss when I also noticed the left hand turn was a lot sharper than I thought. So I pulled the brakes and ended up sliding sideways into the rock wall. Then next thing I know I'm picking my self up off of the ground and putting my panniers back onto my bike and noticed blood flowing freely from my left pointer finger. (I'll be letting Issaquah City know about this one also...) And then I noticed a nice woman walking her dog, she stopped briefly to ask if I was OK and I said yes, so she kept on her way. I was looking at my cloths when I noticed something on my left upper arm. I have an alien trying to get out... There is now a softball sized bruise that looks just like an alien is trying to break out.

Just as I started to take off again I saw one of the other cyclist that I usually ride the bus with and we rode the rest of the way up the trail where he turned to go to the I-90 bridge route to Seattle and I kept going to catch 140th to Redmond.

The rest of the ride was uneventful other than the fact I realized that I could make it to work in less than 1 hour ridding the whole way.

I was going to stop by a large breakfast that is going on for people that rode today, but I decided I didn't want to hang out with anyone that actually had a good ride....

So this weekend I have to go and get a new spoke, may have to have 2 tires trued up again and get some rest...