Saturday social butterfly ride

The Butterfly Ride: What a great ride it was this morning leaving out of Pine Valley. Checked the weather and wind on Friday and all was looking well. It was another story when we got out there to Majors Coffee Shop in Pine Valley. The wind has a howelling and gusting pretty good. We talked it over and we decided that we would ride Pine Creek first and see how it was before they decieded to do Kitchen Creek. I knew that I was on my 4th week of recovery from IMSG and I really didn't know how my legs were going to feel so I had already decided the day before to only do Pine Creek 30 Miles and 3200 ft elevation gain. Sooooo.......... the wind was REALLY, REALLY bad and the group decided to ditch the Kitchen Creek idea. We turned it into a social butterfly ride instead. Meaning we took our time and took some pictures and stopped at the desert lookout on Sunrise Hwy on Mt Laguna and really took the time to enjoy the scenery. Our ride off the summit was a white knuckle ride for sure and I needed help to unclamp my hands and peel my self off my bike. JK it was just a hang on to your bike on the decent kind of ride. Major cross winds!! I would really like to do that ride again and include Kitchen Creek as well. On a side note my legs felt great and I felt like a climbing machine but my lungs and HR were another story. The altitude got me a bit. However, overall I felt great and that's what really matters to me.