I went on a bike ride with my friend today to visit Laumeier Sculpture Park.

It started with espresso and went, literally, uphill from there.

It was an unnecessarily hard ride that probably signals that I need to do more work on climbing hills. (Technically, since I have a short non-hilly commute and only race track I don’t really need that work…. but that is a lazy mentality that I don’t need to adopt… moving on.)

As soon as we got there it started raining so we hid out and ate trail mix in this tree tent.

I wonder if anyone would notice if I just stayed up here all night?

After the rain subsided, we rode around in the slick grass and wet trails and looked at some art.

Track bike meet big red steel thing

(As you can probably tell from the picture, it got a little foggy in my jersey pocket.)

The ride home was a complete blast; hill-bombing and frozen custard.

Next week I get to ride on Chicago’s Velocampus. Can’t Wait!!! More ladies on bikes!