15 miles, Told to F off, DJT

Instead of playing pickleball Saturday morning I went on a 15 mile ride on my Veteran Patton while my girlfriend rode the F7 E-bike for the first time. We rode from the house all the way to the beach and back. We went at a slow and steady pace as my girlfriend preferred to ride mostly on sidewalks where as I am accustomed to riding in bike lanes with traffic nearby.

There was a funny incident where we had to go through a tight section that leads to the pedestrian underpass. Evidently the hotel there has had too many issues with people going through that section on bikes and having accidents with either other bikes or possibly pedestrians.

In an effort to curtail this they put two large speed bumps at the entrance and exit to this area along with a sign that tells bikers that they must walk their bikes. I have ridden through this spot for years and never saw this before so it must have occurred recently.

So although I saw the sign, I ignored it. My EUC is maneuverable and has suspension so the speed bumps didn’t provide that much of an obstacle for me. Once I got through I waited for my girlfriend who walked her bike through as indicated. When we got maybe a half mile further toward the beach we were stopped when she told me the one hotel employee was very angry that I just rolled on through. She said he asked her if she was with me, she said she was. He thanked her for walking her bike through the area but that she should tell me to fck off. LOL. I weighed the idea of riding back that way and riding through the obstacle course again to piss off Mr Fck Off but I didn’t. My girlfriend would have not endorsed that idea either.

Should I have gotten off and walked through that spot? Probably. I have had incidents where clueless pedestrians stop abruptly in the twisting tight corners which could definitely cause an accident. Still, going straight to FCK OFF was more than was necessary IMO.

The rest of the ride was very nice. The E-bike seems pretty great for the money. The thing can go over 30 MPH although my girlfriend barely went half that speed. It has a full color display, LED headlights and tail lights, front suspension and evidently gets great range. After doing 15 miles the battery indicator was still showing full. I look forward to doing more tandem rides with her going forward.

My Easter was very mundane. We went to the gym Sunday morning where I did a more condensed version of the HIT circuit. Instead of 400 total reps it’s only 150 and it’s only pull ups and push ups. The goal is to do 50 pull ups and 100 push ups as quick as you can. I opted to do 10 sets of 5 pull ups and 10 push ups. Even though the total rep count is way less I was still sucking major wind with the only difference being I was only doing it for 15 minutes instead of 40. I have a considerable amount of shoulder pain right now so I thought dialing things back a little made sense.

We did an Easter brunch sort of deal at a local place which was the extent of my Easter celebration. It rained most of the afternoon so it curtailed plans we had to take the dogs out for an extended walk. Despite my non-celebration of the day the same cant be said for the hundreds of people that jammed the nearby catholic church. The cars exploded out onto the median and side streets for parking. I don’t recall ever seeing it so full.

It was nice to see a warm and encouraging message from DJT Easter morning. Of course I am kidding. Just when you think the bar has been set in embarrassing, childish, ignorant and blasphemous statements by Big D he goes and surprises you. I never thought I would see the day that a US President would do/say the things this man does. Just imagine the example he is setting for a generation of malleable young minds that see this garbage spewing from what is supposed to be the “leader of the free world”. I keep waiting for enough is enough sort of accountability to finally be administered to this man-child. I don’t know if that will day will ever come or instead we will just have to wait for the grim reaper to do it for us.