This weekend was nice and cool for us, only high 80's, so we decided to have an active weekend. Saturday we went hiking around some trails we hadn't tried before near Papago Park, and we liked them so much that we went back Sunday and did some biking around there too. It felt really good to be on my bike again after a long summer where it was just too hot to do anything. It's also nice to start finding places to bike that are off the roads here (although Sunday mornings are pretty quiet). I'm sure there are plenty of off-road trails, I just need to find them - or be told about them by any local readers of this blog :-)

Even Sally got into it for a while today which was great, and she decided that next time she wants to go off the main trail too, so I can finally use my mountain bike for what it's intended for - stupid things that make you fall off and hurt yourself - yay! My bike was performing really well - amazingly well considering it's about 12 years old now - and that's got to be thanks to the guys at REI who massively overhauled it after my years of neglect. Best $100 I've ever spent :-) The bike rack I bought 2 years ago (and have hardly used) for the bed of my truck also worked really well - no bikes being launched into the middle of the freeway or anything like that!

I think sometime this winter, we probably need to either head up to the mountains or well out of town to try & find some good places to ride. But we need to build our stamina up first, an hours drive to get out of town, just to do a 30 minute ride is a bit dumb... well unless we can find a great burger place somewhere near the trail end ;-)