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ha ha. I am here! I miss my friends and family already. My bike will be here in the not too distant future (who really knows, i let my dad take care of it). Now all I have to do is find permanent housing. I hope to join you all on a ride when my bike arrives.
I guess if you can't find a place right away you can always set up in that box of yours :rolleyes:
Hope to meet you soon.
We're your family now. Your dysfunctional family :p
I could strap you on a luggage rack on my mountain bike and we could ride on the canal :)
When do classes start?
Monday at 3:00. late start huh?
DC and the surrounding area are great places to ride bikes. Pick up a copy of the ADC Bike Map for the DC region. Check out Potomac Pedalers (bikepptc.org) and Oxen Hill Bike Club (ohbike.org). They have in-town rides, mountain bike rides, and road rides farther afield.
Not much snow, though. If that's really important to you, I doubt you'll stay long. Kayaking is great, however.
Welcome! Check out the local Meetup group and also BikeWashington.org for cycling info in the area.
Welcome to DC. I live in Foggy Bottom and generally ride out through Gtown to do most of my DC area riding. A popular route is to head up MacArthur into Maryland. From there, you can do a short loop, hill repeats, or a variety of long rides around Poolesville or out to Sugarloaf. There are a bunch of clubs in the area. Some of the more race-oriented clubs also have plenty of members who just do the group rides and don't race. Every day at lunchtime or in the evenings you'll find a bunch of people doing laps down at Hains Point (East Potomac Park), which is fairly easy to get to from Georgetown even during high traffic times on the trails. I don't much like the traffic in DC, and I prefer to ride out in the country when I get the chance, but it's not too bad if you time things well.
Hey Madeline-
you should try to get with someone and come up this way to ride the civil War Century on September 8!
I signed up for the 50 along with MD Hill Slug and I think DivingBiker is doing the 25.
Tam?
We will have to see. My bike is still at home and I am wicked out of shape. But the half century sounds really enticing.
I don't think I'm going to be able to do the Civil War 25. I've already registered for the Tour du Port in October, but September's turning out to be a crazy month for me. And I'm debating between the She Got Bike! ride on 9/30 and attending a cyclocross race that same morning. And there was talk of doing another DC Monument ride after Labor Day, when the heck can we squeeze that in??Quote:
Originally Posted by zencentury
Oy, too many riding options make my head spin :eek: See, Madeline, you've got nothing to worry about, DC's a crazy cyclin' town ;)
I'm doing the 50 mile ride also at the Civil War ride. 25 at She Got Bike.Quote:
Originally Posted by zencentury
Oops.
Janice, I may have gotten you confused with MD Slug - unless we're all doing the fifty:eek:
I talked about the 50 at the Civil War Century, but now that my Iron Girl triathlon is over I've got to rest my knee for a while and I don't think I'll be ready. She Got Bike is definitely out, but I'd like to do Tour du Port. A lot will depend on what my knee doctor tels me next week.
a shot of synvisc, a shot of cortisone, a shot of whiskey, you'll be fine:p
let me think about the Civil war ride. If I sign up it will be for 50 miles (sort of to make it worth it). My goal was to ride a century this fall but a half century will half (:D ) to do. If my dad can ship my bike so that I can at least push 35 miles before the ride I will.