California Day 4 - A little R&R and time in the sun

I really needed today. No obligations or anything today in terms of hard training or work, it has almost felt like an actual vacation. Woke up just as early today so we could go get breakfast at Mrs Olson's Coffee Hut, apparently it's famous and people line up for hours on the weekends just to get a seat. It's also on some top 20 or 50 lists for best breakfasts in America. You certainly wouldn't assume so looking at the restaurant, it's not even very big, maybe able to seat around 40 people?

Eat the food there and holy shit you realise why they're famous. Best breakfast I can remember. I got the Ranchero, a massive omelette stuffed with chilli and salsa (with a bit more salsa on top:) with potatoes on the side. So not only was it delicious, the price was totally reasonable as well, not inflated from being on a "best of" list. After that a short walk back to the shack for more snacking and moseying around

Come 11am, Adam and I went for a quick jog as warm up for our strength workout. We completed three sets of the usual calisthenics, push-ups, sit-ups and the like. Doing them all on the beach was momentarily frustrating as we were both pretty worn out and not having a solid surface to push off of makes the movements slightly more difficult. (And in my worn out state, painful)

I'm currently writing this post from the beach. Things are nice and sunny but the wind is whipping things up. To combat this I've dug a hole and erected wind wall to shelter myself. It seems to be working as now I can only feel the warm sun

Tomorrow we'll be driving north for some single track action with other mountain bikers in the area. Very much looking forward to that.


I've included some pictures of the routes and elevation profiles of the rides so far in chronological order.