Jan 9 Tuesday Rides

Nice weather today- sunny, 40 degrees, mild breezes, dry.
Rode 21 miles, my usual loop. Felt good.
So nice to have bike working smoothly again, and to have just the right warm layers on. :) Saw a bluebird.

Can you believe it was a beautiful and sunny 68 degrees here today. This weather really is strange but apparently its not going to last by Thursday they are predicting 38 and snow showers. Oh well I had a nice spring like ride today.:)

Amazing weather here. Sunny and relatively warm, though a storm's coming in from Alaska apparently.

Had a great almost 30 miler. I don't care how long the ride it, it's just fun to be back on the bike.

bwahahahaha another ride that wasn't.
I was all prepared to ride my bike from the office to the shop to pick up my car that was NOT fixed. (it was working, an intermittent thing)

Just before quitting time someone said 40 mph sustained winds....
so i chickened out and let someone drive me.
buck buck buck buck
(said the dry chicken)

I enjoyed an early morning ride starting at 5:45AM- it was nice to get back into my morning rides before I go to work. Even tho it was cool outside, no wind made the ride especially pleasant.

Although it looks like we're in for some colder weather, it's nothing like our dear sisters in Colorado are experiencing!:( :( :( :( I'm grateful to have the fortune of living in a beautiful spot here in California.

MP- nice to hear you are back on the bike. I can well imagine your joy at being able to ride again. Sorry I missed the inaugural- work as usual kept me away! Hopefully I'll have the pleasure of riding with you again one of these days.:) :) :)

I was able to ride 25 miles on the bike trail w/a great riding partner. It was chilly, high 20's, wind wasn't too much of a factor, though.

I was so glad to get this ride in because I don't know when I can ride again, probably the soonest will be Saturday, weather permitting.

Colleen

Rode to work and halfway realized that, alas, the tire was flat - the tire I patched Sunday. Pumped it up and it held for the last tow miles. Pumped it up again and went to bike shop where they were actually kinda busy so LBS guy just rearranged my washers and pumped me up again (hmmm.... that sounds more interesting than it was!!) 'cause I hadn't put that Gazelle quite back right.
Did the "inside ride" where people were a little down 'cause we're missing Fritz - it was last week that there had been that knock on the door and my favorite person to ride next to answered it and didn't come back 'cause it was the news that Fritz (co-LBS dude for lo those many years) had died in his sleep unexpectedly (age 61). FPTRNT didn't ride tonight, tho' he was there... "you look tired." "Just down." Yea. Wish it were my place to leap over and give a big warm fuzzy hug...
Here's to healing...
Pumped up tire. Rode home. Will ride the Xtra tomorrow.

I had a great ride yesterday, my first long ride of the year. Worked a half day and cycled all the way home, just over 37 miles with the two biggest hills in Essex (which are not big by anyone else's standards). Very windy out, but mostly tailwinds so I was flying home. And the hills seemed a lot easier than I recall from last time. Either the wind was helping me up or those three rides up big hills in Norway over Christmas actually helped. I choose to believe the second option, although the first is probably more likely.

My wed am morning commute was rather exciting..I need to call the council about the sprinklers hitting the light post & getting me wet..

Anywho...I knew it was supposed to sprinkle or something today but didn't expect driving rain in my face :eek: I couldn't see a thing & made worse that my light reflects off the road, the street lights etc making me much slower...:mad: 5 min slower...

As mimitabby says it's character building. I have a lot of this type of weather ahead of me in the coming winter again in the dark..

Much better on the way home...!!!

c