St. George Weekend

Cycling:
The ride was rather nice. It was cold and quite windy the entire 30 miles. Joel caught a ride to the start with me. There was no where to use the bathroom at the ride start, which was unfortunate, but gave great incentive to reach the first rest stop quickly. I started off with all the fast people just because it was fun and downhill. At the first climb I dropped off of the front group and granny-geared my way to the top. Part way through we rode through a construction area with large 1" high metal plates in the road with deep sand patches on the right and the opposite lane of traffic on the left. I came upon this area just after a cyclist had gone down due to this mess. Fortunately he was unhurt, but his bike needed some work. Further on, in the midst of a long climb I came across a rider with a flat and no spare. I gave him my spare tube since it is good Karma to aid a cyclist in need. I was glad to see a sag van pull up behind us since they had a good floor pump and I only had a pathetic old mini pump.
At the first rest stop I found Joel (quite cold) had waited for me to show up. He decided to return with me instead of doing the full 100 miles as he had originally intended. It was nice to have someone to ride with even if he is much faster than I am. He was kind enough to drag me up the hills and into the head winds. A few miles before the end I dropped off his wheel and he rode in with another rider and I finished at my own snail's pace. A reasonably nice ride, all in all.
After we changed back at camp my husband drove us over to Snow Canyon and we scaled the Cinder Cone volcano. That was very tough but neat to have done.