Traditional Sunday spiritual experience in the mountains (well, the foothills today), with Holly. 8.5 easy miles from my place up C and B to City Creek, up the trail, up the turn on the left ~ a mile up, up to the trail that ends right before the first towers, and back. Garmin uncharacterstically lost signal for awhile on the way out. Way back was 4.25, way out was a quarter shorter, despite same route and I actually noticed when it lost the signal, so I'm just doubling the way back for 8.5 instead of the Garmin's 8.21. 9:00 pace because of all of the uphill and because Holly wasn't enjoying the mid-60s temps and intense sun with her fur getting pretty long lately.
The mountain bikers were really obnoxious, as is typical for Shoreline. Holly and I were running down from the towers against some some fat woman biking up to them. She couldn't handle the not-very-step uphill and, right after I went by, she swerved hard on the trail to keep her momentum going while going up the uphill. She came within about an inch of running over Holly, who was running 2 feet directly behind me on a leash and had to dive off the edge of the trail, forcing me to grind to a halt and nearly pulling me off the trail with her. Good thing Holly has common sense for a dog, but seriously, bikers, if you can't handle sharing the trail, get off your bike when a pedestrian (who ALWAYS has the right away over bikes) is coming, or better yet, stay at home and eat a bucket of ice cream rather than riding out of control and endangering others. I can't wait until winter, when only the serious and respectful bikers touch the trails.
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