The Tortoise and the Hare

We'll get to today's theme in a moment.  In the meantime, we woke up at 6am and decided to go out and check out the stream, Shaver's Fork of the Cheat River.  We fished for 2 hours or so.  Here's a photo of Kathy and the stream and the forest and the mountain and the foggy foggy dew:

After fishing and breakfast, we cleaned up a little, loaded our bikes on the truck, and headed into town for a scrumptious lunch and then a 3.5 hour bike ride on a rails-to-trails path in Elkins, WV.  It was a beautiful ride, level, through farmland and forest.  About halfway "there" an older couple dressed to the nines in spandex WV Mountaineers bicycle duds, riding their expensive road bikes, blew by us with barely a grunt.  Maybe 4 miles later we caught up to them.  They had a problem with one of the bikes.  We asked if things were okay, and they said, "Maybe not."  As we passed them, Kathy pointed out, "The Tortoise and the Hare."  There was some satisfaction in that!  :)  We reached our destination, rested, turned back, and when we reached where the other couple had broken down, the guy was doing CPR on a bicycle and presumably his wife had pedaled back to get their car to haul the bikes home.  Meanwhile, we finished our ride and had a wonderful time.  A total of 26.4 miles on a beautiful day.  Here's a photo of David and the bikes resting along the way: