Back at the National Whitewater Center in Charlotte. Sore from yesterday, but ready for more fun!! Ran 3 miles around the rapids course..or 30 minutes, I didn't have my garmin, so I just went for 30 minutes & figured it was close enough. Then we went whitewater rafting first thing in the morning, kayaking on the Catawba river, back to the Canyon Crossing ropeline obstacle course with zipline at the end, and rode the bikes around the rapids course 4 times, around 4 miles. The trails were closed because of all the rain the previous night. They want to preserve the integrity of the trails for the Xterra event coming next month!! We just finished putting on our water shoes for another rafting trip, and as we were going to our 4:30 show time, we saw that they'd opened the trails. So we bagged the 4:30 trip and got back on the bikes. We did around 30 minutes on the green trail, which is honestly adventurous for me, and then MR talked me into going on a blue trail. I had to walk the bike down one super steep little part, and up a couple of super steep parts, but all in all, it was actually really fun. 1 hour total bike time on the trails. Not sure of the miles. My arms & legs all got a workout.
Here's a photo of MR and I on a flat part of the trail that went along the Catawba River. Then one more river rafting trip where we had lots of fun and ended up swimming a couple of times. Great times. I'd recommend the US National Whitewater Center as a great vacation spot for couples & older kids to anyone!! It's in Charlotte, and if you're coming in the summer time, let me know because I'll meet you there!!!! http://usnwc.org/
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