Christmas Day rides

[MillieNZ]

:D

I thought I'd start a Xmas day ride thread, since it's Christmas day in New Zealand....

Tim & I took advantage of the early morning sun and cruised down the Pōhutukawa Coast from home in Beachlands to Clevedon, not a particularly long bike ride, but nice just to amble along, stopping at the occasional beach. we took some picture from the mobile phone, so not the best quality but might show how gorgous the Pohutukawa trees looked ( the trees are native to New Zealand and grow huge red flowers at Xmas time, so are known as the NZ Xmas tree :D )

It's now raining , so time for crayfish & prawns for Xmas day dinner...

Hope every one else has a great day too

[crazycanuck]

Ian wants to venture out for a bike ride but no freakin way!!! It's 11:30AM & the official temp is 34C..and it's going to get hotter.Tomorrow's supposed to be 40C..:eek:

MNZ...i'm homesick(for NZ) now..I know the area you're referring to :) I do miss Pohutukawa trees :(

Enjoy the rest of your day!

C

[RoadRaven]

Yup.
We went out this morning before lunch.
It's become a family "tradition"...

All seven of us (me, partner, our daughter and four sons) hop on our bikes and go for a short ride. Just 10kms up to the end of the tarseal and back - thats about the right distance for my daughter (who commutes on the flat) and my youngest son (who is still getting used to his newish bike and building endurance on hills)

LOL, CC, we went at 11:30am here and it was drizzling and mild - just above 20'
Lovely weather for a ride :)

[MillieNZ]

Ian wants to venture out for a bike ride but no freakin way!!! It's 11:30AM & the official temp is 34C..and it's going to get hotter.Tomorrow's supposed to be 40C..:eek:

MNZ...i'm homesick(for NZ) now..I know the area you're referring to :) I do miss Pohutukawa trees :(

Enjoy the rest of your day!

C

good grief..... that's hot ! i admire your ability to live in that sort of heat !

If it makes you feel any less homesick.... the Auckland drivers were just as crazy yesterday and that road is very narrow & windy from Maraetai to Clevedon:eek: :D

[Thorn]

It's 11:30AM & the official temp is 34C


Hey, that's what we had...oops, 34F, but for this time of year in this area of the globe, blissfully warm. Got out for an easy 20 miles just to enjoy the sunshine....how about I send some of the snow and ice your way? :rolleyes:

[7rider]

It was mid-40's in Maryland (~7C) and sunny and bright.
DH and I headed into Rock Creek Park which must be a Bermuda-Triangle sort of thing for GPS units, because once we got into the park, my Garmin would turn off, turn on, turn off, turn on. The beeping was maddening. :mad: When we got out of the park, it stopped doing it. :confused:
So...not sure exactly how far we went. The route is around 40 miles, and given how much my legs hurt right now.....I believe we did all of that.
Gads...how quickly the summer fitness disappears. :(

[smilingcat]

bit windy here but managed to get out and go riding for paltry 10 miles. did two easy hill climb for a total of 450ft (15km and 137m of climb)

My rest day ;)
smilingcat

[shootingstar]

Lovely shots there millie.

Cycling is a very remote thought here where we are. I've been snowshoeing for the last 3 days. We are at a mountain ski resort to do some snowshoeing. So Christmas Day was a 9 km. winter wonderland up along some hills, about 4 of them within 2 kms., each 4-10% grade and then through protected woods gently rolling terrain draped in snow along side of mountains. I
I did think about cycling....I thanked cycling fitness to help me do snowshoeing. And hope that snowshoeing activity will help the reverse for not being on bike for over 2 wks. now.

We won't get restarting cycling until Dec. 31 when we get back home in Vancouver. And we must cycle (since we don't have a car) to get groceries for our New Year's Eve dinner and an art supplies sale I want to exploit that day. :rolleyes:

[lph]

We've indulged in our usual Christmas Day tradition of doing as little as possible, after a loooong evening with big dinner+gifts+hoopla with the inlaws yesterday, and my family coming over to visit tomorrow.

But I needed to nail those final 21 km for my 7500 this year :) so I left my menfolk on the couch this morning and snuck out. Brilliant ride. Last ride in the woods was on the 23rd, and then there was a layer of potato-flour-snow just thick enough to clog up my tires and make the going very heavy. But today I had wings! It rained yesterday and removed all the soft stuff, then today it was just below freezing. The roads were smooth superfast frozen dirt, with the occasional hairy stretch of ice bulges. I was almost up to summer speed, great fun :D Woop!

[velogirl]

for the 9th year in a row, I've led a ride in San Francisco on Christmas morning. I blogged it here:

http://velogirl.blogspot.com/2007/12/9th-annual-christmas-orphans-tour-of.html

http://bp3.blogger.com/_3HX5MhK75WU/R3GLsH6sp8I/AAAAAAAAAYs/p74CE5ZzdBM/s1600-h/christmas_tree.jpg

[Geonz]

Two short rides for a total of 26. Hoping to go long tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day and the three after that just to shoot for the big 10K... the weather has nicely moved the snow showers to the night time! Today was wonderful at 45 F (what's that - about 7 C?) with 10 mph. Tomorrow even less wind *and* I can maybe get my lighter bicycle from the LBS for a stretch :)

[Fredwina]

I did 44 miles down to Baldwin park and back. would have down more, but I picked a sheet metal screw in my tire in Covina :( and wasn't sure how the tire would hold.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

DH and I snuck away from our family guests this morning for a 20 mile ride before I had to cook christmas dinner. :cool: It was grey and about 37 degrees F. Managed to stay warm enough until the very end of our 2 hour ride, when my fingers and toes started objecting. Fun to be out on the roads on Christmas Day! :p

[silver]

Beautiful day here in the Midwest! high 40's, sunny, light wind. but I couldn't sneak out until a bit late so only had time for 21 before the sun was creeping down. But it was fast (for me coming out of the neighborhood) 18.1 mph. I felt a little guilty 'cause Mr. didn't bring his bike home.

[ummbnb]

Woke up to a white christmas....and its still snowing over 12 hours later. I'd say there's at least a foot out there. So, no ride today.

All I did was sit on my butt, watch "A Christmas Story" over and over again while my kids go happy-happy-bizerko with their new stuff, drink wine and eat ham. I'm pretty sure if I eat any more ham I may turn into a ham.

Ds is FINALLY asleep! Now its My turn to play on the DS. :D

[salsabike]

Nice 30 mile tandem ride in rain and snow here today. It was fun.

[elk]

I went about 2 miles uphill in the wind and snow with my dog..and it was pretty cool...the snow had not started sticking to the road yet...

I just like testing all my new clothes...:D They were AWESOME. It was HARD work in the cold air and I was so comfortable....except for my throat and lungs...I think all that hard breathing of cold air just really hurt!

It hasn;t snowed on the 25thDec here since 1990... I remember that as an icy mess...

[sundial]

I left early in the morning, before hubby and his mom got up. I rode 30 miles in 28 F weather. It was so peaceful and tranquil with a heavy frost in the fields and geese flying overhead. It was such wonderful weather for a morning ride.