In record heat, a trail angel saves the day
Thursday, July 30th, 2009
The hot, eerily empty
Springwater Trail yesterday.
(Photos by Erin Greeson)
Springwater Trail yesterday.
(Photos by Erin Greeson)
Today, while commuting home midday to finish my work from an air-conditioned office, a great thing happened. Just when I thought I’d prepared smartly for the 100-degree ride — dousing my head in cold water beforehand and chugging water all morning long — my lack of preparedness on another front led to an unexpected situation.
As I rode down SE Lincoln, I noted an atypically low number of fellow cyclists on this usually busy route. The heat has kept people indoors or in their cars, I thought to myself. I made my way through Ladd’s Addition, under the Hawthorne Bridge and onto the Springwater Corridor Trail (popular bike routes, which were all sparsely populated). (more...)
