I'll be off the bike for a couple of weeks at the end of the month so I've been getting up early to do long detours into work. Yesterday, I did the River Road on the Yolo Co. side of the Sacramento River. This morning I headed over to the American River Bike Trail.

I noticed many friendly people on the trail this morning. Maybe it's because I'm just spinning along rather than hammering as I usually do. Maybe it's because I'm taking the time to wave to everyone I pass. Maybe it's because I was wearing my Cal Bears jersey and everyone's jumping on the Beat USC bandwagon.

Waved to some runners near Sac State. Said "hello" to an older man on a Trek on the Guy West Bridge. The Trek was a fairly recent vintage 1000 but he had the handle bars flipped over like cool dudes would do back in the day.

Another perfect way to start the day.