Saturday, May 31 rides

[divingbiker]

Got up early to get a ride in before a busy day. I stayed within 5 miles of home, riding the road along the creek up till its end, then back and into downtown Silver Spring, around to my town, back to SS, back down the creek road, then home. 22.5 miles.

Now the day can really start--picking strawberries, turning them into strawberry jam, and best of all picking up my boy Bailey from the vet hospital, where he's been for 4 days battling his kidney disease! Yay! He's coming home!

Hope everyone has a good day.

[Susan126]

I have yet to ride today. But I hope to. Right now my hubby has a severe sinus headache and is resting after taking 2 tyenol. The weather is not cooperating. Misty rain, sun break, misty rain, sun break, I just wish it would make up it's mind! Hopefully stick with the sun! Hopefully this afternoon. I will report back! Hopefully with a ride report! :p

[ny biker]

The weather is not cooperating. Misty rain, sun break, misty rain, sun break, I just wish it would make up it's mind!

We've got a tornado watch until 5 pm and a really heavy thunderstorm just passed through the area with more on the way. No riding for me today. I have lots of errands to run so I'll be happy just to make it to the mall in a few hours.

I got up early this morning to do a ride that was being led by the manager of the LBS where I shop, but decided to go back to sleep and go for a solo ride tomorrow instead, since it will be much less humid tomorrow. Besides I'll be getting up early every weekend for most of the summer in order to ride before the days get super hot, so I'd just as soon not get up early to ride when highs are only in the 80s.

Oh look it just started pouring again - have to get up and close the windows again...sigh. Too bad because I was enjoying the cool breeze.

[Southside Sally]

Our local group did a 40 mile ride this morning. It was humid and windy, but as long as we were moving, it didn't feel bad at all. I tried out my new pair of bike shorts today, and they are the BEST! (Gore Ozon Lady bike shorts). My booty is sooooo grateful!

Happy Cycling!

[Susan126]

Thunderstorms and high humidity ny biker. Oh how I remember that! I was born and raised in Pittsburgh!

Early morning rides in the summer are the way to go! Even here in the Seattle area. Plus I am a morning person and I just love getting up early and getting a ride in before the afternoon heat of the day. So ny biker I will be joining you on those early morning weekend (and weekday rides too) this summer only I will be on the opposite side of the country! :p

Southside Sally I am going to have to check out those bike shorts, Gore ozone, I've never heard of em. But anything with the word "comfy" in it I am all for checking into! Glad you had a good ride!

And it looks like the misty rain is going to win this bout. So I guess no ride today. It is going to be a gym day. Hopefully tomorrow will be nicer!

[mimitabby]

ride? bah humbug.
My DH is on a 200 k ride today. I don't think he even bothered to take his raincoat. Me? I stayed home. I had a couple of little rides I was thinking about doing, but the weather changed my mind. The rain is coming down. They finally changed today's forecast (for cloudy and 0% chance of rain) after 2 hours of rain... :cool::D gotta love the Pacific Northwest.
I even turned the heat back on.

[motochick]

37 steep miles. I rode up a mountain, then down the other side, then turned around and rode up the backside and back down to home. It was great, I had never ridden up the backside. It is much easier then the frontside that I ride every week. I think I will incorporate the backside as part of my normal ride now. Oh yeah, and I got chased by a coyote, I thought he was gonna eat my leg. Guess my calves weren't meaty enough. Lucky me.

Brenda

[mimitabby]

Brenda, you got chased by a wild coyote??? how close to you did it come? How did you shake it off??

[HillSlugger]

I got out for a 50 mile ride today. This will be my last training ride for my metric century next Sunday. I got rained on for 20 of the 50 miles but it was actually a good ride. One objective today was to resolve my saddle/shorts issue. I used the saddle from my race bike, stood on the pedals frequently, stopped every 10-12 miles, and slathered on chamois Buttr at the pee breaks and it worked out pretty well.

Between the strong winds I fought the last several weeks and the rain today I feel like there's little else the ride next week can throw at me.

[Fredwina]

I was going to do down to Chino to complete my metric for the week, But I decided to go to up to Devore and down into San Berdoo(San Bernardino)
Cucamonga Peak:
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o254/Fredwina_photo/SUNP0007-1.jpg
Rode by the Old Pacific Electric Railway (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Electric_Railway)Station. Etiwanda is one of Three communities (the other being Alta Loma and Cucamonga):
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o254/Fredwina_photo/SUNP0009-1.jpg
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o254/Fredwina_photo/SUNP0011-1.jpg
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o254/Fredwina_photo/SUNP0012-1.jpg
Some Yucca Plants:
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o254/Fredwina_photo/SUNP0013-1.jpg
a view of Glen Helen Park:
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o254/Fredwina_photo/SUNP0014-1.jpg
This was painted on th Road in S.B :)
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o254/Fredwina_photo/SUNP0017-3.jpg
Went by REI and got some Luna Moons, and got home with 68 miles (bit more than I wanted, but C'est La Vie!)

[Melalvai]

While my friends (including our own MU Pedal Pusher) used their visitors as an excuse not to ride with me, I used my visitor as an excuse to go for a ride. ;) I biked the 30 miles and met them all at a little small-town festival where we rode the Octopus and the Gravitron which I remembered as being kind of lame but were about as much excitement as I can stand nowadays.

The bike ride would have been completely uneventful had I not run out of water before I made it even halfway. I'd have sold my soul for a church with a water spigot on that road. There wasn't even a gas station.

I saw lots of lycra on one stretch which is part of a popular loop. They weren't the friendliest people, and probably turned their noses up at my lack of lycra and my heavy commuter bike.

I have to wonder how fast I'd go on something less than 41 pounds.

[motochick]

Brenda, you got chased by a wild coyote??? how close to you did it come? How did you shake it off??

He came way too close to me. He was on the right side of the road in some brush when I first heard him, then I saw him and he was going in the same direction as me, uphill. I told him how cute he was and he stopped for a second and just looked at me. He was about 15 feet away and I was just staring at him. Now keep in mind I am pedaling up a mtn road and I am about a 1/4 mile from the top. (15 miles up)

After he stared at me I thought he would just run away. He started to trot after me and I kept looking at him. He would go a little faster, so would I. He was also running out of real estate on the side of the road so he was coming closer to me by the stride. I was seriously thinking about turning around so I could ride DOWN hill and get away from him. I kept my eye on him and just pedaled my brains out. He then sped up and came out into the street toward me. He dashed behind me and went under the guardrail on the other side. I thought for sure he was gonna sample my leg. This is THE first time I have ever been chased by a dog while on my bike. Only he wasn't a dog, but he was SOOOO cute. No one was around to see me running away from a wild coyote, but I must have looked foolish. What was funny was I had my camera with me and all I could think of when I was safe, was I wish I could have taken a picture of him cuz he was so close to me. Maybe next time I will have the guts to snap a photo.

Brenda

[redrhodie]

No one was around to see me running away from a wild coyote, but I must have looked foolish.

Brenda

You should change your name to "road runner"! Beep beep!

[Zen]

I don,t think Wile E. was after you, I think he was with you.

[SouthernBelle]

On my ride today I:

1. Had to stop at a house and borrow and allen wrench, my seat bolt came loose.

2. Saw a man running and playing with his pet...

Goat. (At first I thought it was a really big dog.... with horns).

3. Conquered my nemesis hill.

4. Explored a new road.

5. Rescued a turtle.

[BarbaraAlys]

I did a club ride today, 19 miles. Not far, but ALL of it was in an incredible head wind. The same wind I did my 15 miles in yesterday. It is getting hot out, so on the one hand the wind is nice, but it kills me on the bike. I feel like I did after my first 50 mile ride!

I was going to do 20 tomorrow, but maybe I will skip that and clean the apartment instead.

Barbara

[RoadRaven]

Well... if MD can, so can I... post in both May31 threads, that is...

My May 31 ride? Intense, hard out and my body feels like it has been worked HARD.

On my new EMC2 Team Equip - full carbon, dura-ace I had about the toughest race in terms of hills that our club does! And I rode hard, and fast-for-me and felt really satisfied at the finish.
It was a 33km race - only about 9km of which were flat (and because that is the false flat, about 5km of it were going up also!)

It was a tunning day - a heavy frost in the morning meant the day (though cold) was sunny, dry and virtually windless.
I got in 44km in total when I include warm up/cool down.

[Zen]

I was going to do 20 tomorrow, but maybe I will skip that and clean the apartment instead.



Nah, that dirt will still be there when you get back.