April 25 Rides

Rode to work without leg warmers &/or a jacket! I promptly left work and headed out for a nice long ride this afternoon. The sun is out full force today and it felt so good! The skies are a solid blue, the birds are singing, the red buds are in bloom and the wind is blowing hard! I rode 33 miles and spent a majority of the ride fighting either a cross wind or a head wind. However, I had a great ride (with the exception of the collision I had with a large bug) and averaged 16.2 mph today. I love to ride!

Today put in 10 or so miles running errands. Loaded up my panniers at the grocery store getting ready for my Big Dummy which should be ready by Monday. Can't wait to see how much I can load!

Nice ride yesterday evening with hubby to LBS to check on my bike and to the book store.

We're getting close to our 90 & 90 (90+ degrees and 90% humidity). Suppose to get a cool front on Monday -- maybe we'll be back down to 70 in the AMs!

Looking forward to longer rides in the country this weekend, unless our much-needed rain appears.

(Testing out a new name: Surly Bee-anchi Lady!!!)

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Originally Posted by makbike

I love to ride!

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Oh, yeah! I hear that! :)
I took today off. Took care of some domestic stuff and then head out on the bike. Rode up into Howard county for some hill work...my last chance for a "big" ride before the Terry's Wild Goose Chase ride on Sunday, where I hope to do a very flat metric. I got in 42 miles at a 16 mph pace under a mix of sun and high, thin clouds (which doesn't bode well for incoming weather). A very pleasant 70-75 degrees.
I really should do this more often...traffic was light, the roads were beckoning, the temp was perfect. Ahhhhhh......

I got in a quick 12.5 miles after work before it got dark :). Unfortunately there are a lot of busy intersections along the way, only averaging 15mph but avg 19mph out of traffic along the coast. Lots of traffic, really windy, but it's been a rough week and was great to get out before what's supposed to be a rainy weekend.

Commute in... the big rubber band on the tennis ball I'd found and tossed in the bags attacked my wheel so I had to pick the pieces out and even apply that same "shove it backwards" shoe principle to get the last bits out so the wheel would roll again. I must say, I'm 'way more sensitive to things coming in contact with my spokes since getting tossed ;) The real warm fuzzy was that not one but two people who knew me just happened to be going by!
Fought the wind to get down to my LBS at lunch to here the "so much more I should tell you" about marking routes for bike rides. And there was! Down to the last detail about keeping the paint off the car, your shoes... I brought my alphasmart (word processor) and took notes and we made jokes and everything was, in every sense of the word, cool. Got my derailleur adjusted and now I know which thingy to turn *and* it doesn't jump in the middle chain ring (which is what caused my foot to slide off the pedal and the shoe to get sucked up into the wheel).
Rode back coasting at 16 mph.
Beat the storms home... in fact, the're not here *yet* so I'm thinkin' I should have just blown around sme more!
19 miles... 21 to go to get to 2000.
Hoping to get good miles in tomorrow.

It was gorgeous all day, sunny and about 72. I had plans to ride with my friend at 5. Of course, by then, it was 62, cloudy-ish, and looking like it might rain. Oh, and very windy.
We did a flattish/rolling ride of about 23 miles. Some of my favorite streets in Acton and Boxborough, and Stow. I was cold at the start, wearing arm warmers and a vest, but after awhile felt OK. At the end of the ride, my legs were cold and one of my knees was achy.
My computer hadn't re-set the last time I rode, so I don't know my speed. It was fast for the first half, but then I had to stop and wait several times for my friend. That was OK, we both got a lot of time in the big ring.
Some of the places we rode today were part of my commute from my old house; I really miss some of that beautiful scenery/wildlife refuge.

April 25 was a lovely day, overcast but not too cold (though a very cool early morning).

ANZAC Day is a day where we all try to do something together... this was the first year my daughter couldn't join us as she is at university, but the rest of us went for a walk up our hill.

But before we all did that, my partner and I did just under 20kms - I was testing my two race bikes due to minor changes, and we just rode back and forth along the road frontage of our farm. I don't get many riades with him, so these moments are precious. :)

I had such high hopes for a fun ride. The weather was beautiful, but about 5 miles into it, my chamois started bunching in the most undesirable way. Weird, I have 2 pairs of the exact same knickers, one is still fine, and one has begun this little torture trick. Guess they're wearing out. Still rode the ride I was planning, but everything was a little off. It's time to go shopping.

Do love the new shims I put in my brifters! Before, in the drops, I could just reach the brakes with my middle fingers. Now I can easily use all of them. Big improvement!

All in all, not my best day on a bike. Funny how one inch can demand so much attention.

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Originally Posted by redrhodie

All in all, not my best day on a bike. Funny how one inch can demand so much
attention.

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Chuckle. Ain't that the truth.

didn't ride 4/25 either, but ran 6.5 miles. that makes 19.5 miles for the week, not bad.

not sure if i'm riding today, it's cold. i'm really getting sick of this chicago weather:mad:... if there were a job offer in Arizona, I just might take it :eek: