Flat Sunday with ostriches

I was reading on another blog about "Cow Rides", where you ride untill you see a cow. So that's what I intended to do this morning. I earled up the Schwinn yesterday and inflated the tyres. All ready to go! Of course when I get out to the garage this morning the read tire is flat. So I ride the Jamis, with a pannier holding the camera, because I WANT a picture of the cow-at-the-end-of-the- ride!!

And I brought a map, the Ridelink bike map (note to self: sign up for bike to work day.)

Saw Steve at the donut shop. He was getting donuts for a gaggle of girls, and talking on the mobile phone to a friend who was biking up in the Laguna Mountains.

I head out to Santee, meandering around semi-not knowing where I'm going, checking the map. A lady in a car heading NORTH on Magnolia asks me if she is going the right direction to get to El Cajon. I kindly straighten her out.

I used El Nopal to get over to Lakeside. I saw an ostrich or two. Should have taken a picture, but was saving it for that cow!

Followed two other guys through Lakeside. Mistake. Followed them half way up Los Coches Road, not the way I wanted to go. Backtracked to Julian Ave., noticed tire getting soft. Rode it to Julian/Lake Jennings Park Road/El Monte Road intersection. Took tube out, couldn't locate hole. Went to put spare tube in, the tube, let me say, that the Performance guys gave me (well, not GAVE) when I bought the bike. Wrong size. WAY too small! Put old tube back in, pumped up (New pump works great, thanks Matt!!).

Wimped out, decided to go home. Helped a bicyclist out with my trusty map, he was looking for Woodside Ave. Had to pump up twice on the way back.

So, I never saw a cow, I DID see a ostrich or two.

I will go to Performance this afternoon and pick up TWO spare tubes!

Mileage for today: 30.03 (Had to go up and down the street a couple times to get 30...)

The weekly statistics are all goofed up because I didn't post them last week, but this is what I come up with:

Schwinn -- 21.89
James -- 38.00 estimate


Odometer readings:

Schwinn -- 5,275
Jamis -- 1,175