March 18th rides

Since I have a 300K brevet over the weekend, I decided to take it a little easy today. Start out after church head west to San Dimas. Saw some of the club members headed back from the morning rides. Waves were exchanged. I cruise by a bagel shop that one of our usual hangouts, but didn't see any one. I made it to San Dimas, and thought about watching the crits that are a part of The Stage Race, but decided not to. Climbed up to the Ranger Station behind San Dimas dam, and took the scenic way back home, wound up with abut 38.5

I actually was able to get two rides in today. First ride was a quick 14 miler around my community. I rode the same route I rode yesterday. It was a tough ride yesterday, after being in bed with the flu most of the week, but it felt good to be out and about and in the sun. Today, I decided to repeat the ride and my legs were none too happy. I had to battle a headwind the first half of the ride thus causing me to crawl along at a snail's pace. However, once I turned out of the wind things did seem to pick up and I was able to settle into a nice, comfortable cadence. I finished the ride with an average speed which was faster than yesterday's so I was happy.

Once home I changed out of my wet clothing, grabbed a sandwich and loaded the bike. I headed into Louisville to participate in the Sunday afternoon 25 mile club ride. It is not one of my favorite routes but I just could not pass up a sunny albeit chilly day on my bike. The club ride was fast and I was able to hang in there for a better part of the ride. We were buzzing down River Road at a nice pace of around 19 - 20 mph. I had to drop off the pace some for my legs were talking and begging me to slow down some. I listened pulling it down to 16 mph, settled into a nice cadence and continued to buzz along. I was awarded with a second wind after the only big climb and found my way back to my car finishing the ride with an average speed of 15.9 mph. All in all I can't complain. Two good days on my bike and more importantly I finally feel like I've rejoined the human race.

My ride was a snow shoe today, 3.5 miles of crunchy, iced over snow that was very hard to walk on. Saw one cyclist on the way to the trail, but the streets are very narrow right now. It's supposed to be in the 50s by Thursday, so back on the road then.

It's so funny, Robin is looking forward to temps in the 50s and I'm cranky cause for me that's cold.

I just did a short recovery ride today, in my cold 50 degree temps. :)

Yep, I went snowshoeing today too....tons of snow everywhere, and topped out at 29 degrees today. The bikes are patiently waiting in the garage, chomping on their oats contentedly...

what a gorgeous day! after we did the 69 flights of stairs and messed around most of the afternoon, DH & I got on our bikes and did a leisurely 9 miles to the supermarket and back. He loaded his bike up with 12 pounds of groceries.
I felt stronger the second half of the ride!

I had a great ride today. Beautiful weather and views.

DH and I rode together for 2 hours, up the Hood River Valley towards Mt Hood. We meandered amongst the orchards with their trees just now starting to bud. The "out" part was almost entirely uphill, so we blasted the "back" bit.

I was commited to doing 4 hours for IM training so I went out again, this time up the valley towards Mt Adams. Rolling farmland and pine trees. I climbed for about 15 miles, dropped in on a friend for a moment and came back down. All in all a 4:05 day for me.

I love spring.

I did an hour of spinning today, followed by squats and lunges :)

came home, took a nap, and then did about 15 miles on my new bike :):D

Kat - I love you avatar. I love orange kitties. They are soooooooo precious.

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Originally Posted by Wahine

Kat - I love you avatar. I love orange kitties. They are soooooooo precious.

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thanks... he just had surgery on Friday. We had a horrible 4 weeks of him being violently ill :( He almost died :(... but we finally did surgery on Friday, and they found a piece of rubber from my laptop battery pack strap that he swallowed, it was lodged in his colon :( It was a bad 4 weeks, but he is better now. That pic of him under the sheets is from yesterday, his first day home from surgery :)

Aaaaaawwwwwww!!

Poor little guy. I'm glad he's had that nasty piece of rubber removed. Orange kitties are so mischievious and will eat all kinds of things. At least mine did.

I hope he feels better.

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Aaaaaawwwwwww!!

Poor little guy. I'm glad he's had that nasty piece of rubber removed. Orange kitties are so mischievious and will eat all kinds of things. At least mine did.

I hope he feels better.

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thanks... yeah he rips up paper, and terrorizes his toy bears!!... but now I am leary of him having any toys... it was not a fun 4 weeks for him, poor guy. I don't know what he will eat next, argggggggh!

but yes, he is very precious, and OMG, so sweet and loveable. He is such a lover and such a brat, all in the same, LOL!! I got him from the shelter 1.5yrs ago, he was 1yr old then... he came in a stray... I consider myself the lucky one in finding him :):D

The day here in the Seattle area did not start out too great. I was supposed to have done a morning ride but the grey clouds and light wet stuff I saw outside my window this morning put an end to that. I thought it would be a gym day but around 2:00 PM the clouds started to part, blue skies appeared, and the temp was getting nice, sooooooo hubby, our daughter, and me ventured out and we got a wonderful 15 mile ride in before dinner.

A very windy day. I figured that could be used as hill training in the flatlands. So I headed into the winds for about 17 miles. Seriously slow going and occasional crosswinds nearly knocked me off my bike. But coming home again, I had some good stretches of tailwinds and I was actually speeding at one point. Rolling down a hill with tailwinds into a little village where the speedlimit is 30mph, I was doing 30.5! I was pedalling as fast as I could, but alas as soon as the hill leveled out I slowed down. Then I hit headwinds again the last 6/7 miles home. 40miles total, but felt really tough with all the wind.

I'm cranky - rode 20 miles in the basement yesterday. Mother Nature is a mean old woman...

SheFly

67 degrees at 5:15 a.m!!!!!!!!!!!!! had a 74 mile flat/windy ride that ended at noon at around 90 degrees. i can smell orange blossoms, every day last week was in the 90's, leaves are appearing on my mulberry trees, life is good.

I love how this gives us a world weather forecast, too hot, too cold, just right, too wet..

:D :D :D :D

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Originally Posted by mimitabby

I love how this gives us a world weather forecast, too hot, too cold, just right, too wet..

:D :D :D :D

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Too Windy! 33 miles, 42 degrees, sustained winds of 15 with gusts to 25. I think we had a tailwind for about 3 miles. :eek: Had the worst asthma attack I have had & had to cut the ride short (should have ridden 40 miles). I shouldn't try to get out in temps below 50....:(

sheesh, if i couldn't go out in temps below 50 I'd get maybe 1 month of riding a YEAR.

SheFly, Is that a Katharine Hepburn quote? "Well behaved women rarely make history." Sounds like something she would have said. In any case, I like it.

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Originally Posted by li10up

SheFly, Is that a Katharine Hepburn quote? "Well behaved women rarely make history." Sounds like something she would have said. In any case, I like it.

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Not sure, although I just did a search and it didn't appear to be attributed to her. I saw it on a bumper sticker, and it applies to me, so decided to use it ;) .

SheFly