Beautiful afternoon, Joey has been somewhat cooped up and I needed to get out also. So I loaded up my bike and Joey's carrier and decided to head to Grover Mo, where I would jump on the Al Foster trail and head over to Castlewood State Park. It had been a few years since doing this ride so I thought why not. My friend Sue had told me her and her husband had rode the trail recently and that there was a paved section now with some pretty awesome bridges. Se we are riding along a gravel type trail along side a mini train tracks when there is a paved trail that goes off to the left. We jump on that trail and it is pretty much a 2.5 mile sloped incline before we make it to the top. The climb is doable for most I would think, but out of shape riders or riders with bad bikes may have trouble. The fun part comes on the way back down. Pretty much over 2 miles of coasting downhill, braking at some turns, Joey sits up in his carrier and lets the wind blow across his face, looking back at me every so often as if to say faster!!!!! All in all we did about 9 miles today.
