Riding the Coyote Creek Bikeway

Today I rode the Coyote Creek Bikeway towards Seal Beach. My ride started from my house and I entered the trail at Rosecrans Blvd.

The first few miles of the trail were nicely paved, all I heard was the humming of my bike tires. Then, all of the sudden I heard a flapping noise around the bottom bracket, it was my left shoe! One of the straps had become unglued:

Although it didn’t affect the performance of my pedaling, the noise was really annoying. I started to search the side of the bikeway for some type of string. Thankfully, I found an old balloon that still had the string attached. I quickly tied the unglued strap and went on my merry way.

The last 6 miles to the beach were quite a challenge, a nasty head wind accompanied me to the end of the trail. Not only that, the trail also became quite bumpy with a lot of small potholes.
The Coyote Creek Bikeway joins the San Gabriel River Trail about 4 miles away from the beach, these last 4 miles were the windiest, but I made it to the end of the trail.

I finally reached the beach, the weather was perfect, not too hot not too cold. I chilled out for about half hour before I headed back home.

That nasty head wind that I encountered on my way to the beach turned in to a pleasant tail wind. I was cranking along at an average of 20 mph. Love tail winds!

I enjoyed riding the Coyote Creek Bikeway, being 3.3 miles from my house is an awesome way to get to the beach without having to drive the car!