July 1st Ride Reports

**hibiscus09** · 07-01-2006, 06:17 AM

Morning everyone! Happy Saturday!

I turned in 34.1 miles on the bike today at a 15.6mph pace. I took a cyclist's/friend's advice and had some wheat toast with peanutbutter before I headed out. It was yummy and I feel like it helped. During the ride, I had a bottle of Gatorade, but I would have preferred Accelerade. After the ride, I'm having a protein shake with glutamine & have taken some amino acids. I don't know what carb I'll have yet -- but I'll have something.

Anyhoo, according to bicycle magazine, I burned approximately 1,200 calories

! Good Lord. I know they're just estimates, but do you guys think the calculators are somewhat close to how many calories are actually burned cycling?

I have developed quite a golfer's/cyclist's tan while I've been on vacation and am planning on wearing halters and strapless dresses on a trip to Las Vegas on July 20th. Today, I'm going to the pool to try to even out the scary tan.

Ya'll have a wonderful day!

**DrBee** · 07-01-2006, 07:05 AM

I put in 31.5 miles this morning and felt great after mile 20. Kept pace of 16.5-18mph throughout most of ride. Doing good with clipless, but getting a nice chain tatoo. Never did that before clipless. Hmmmm.... I outlasted all the runners and walkers today. I have a 5 mile loop I do through town, part of which is in a park (lots of runners and walkers).

Have a great Saturday... now to watch the prologue.

**Trek420** · 07-01-2006, 07:12 AM

A day late. I rode to work yesterday. The weather was beautiful, traffic light, lots of people off for the long weekend and at work allllll of our managers were gone so the day at work was fairly relaxing (you see, we don't need them at all).

One of my co-workers is looking into cycling so we chatted about buying his first bike. I handed him my dog eared collection of Bicycling magazine articles I keep for that purpose, sent him the link to bikejournal...hopefully you'll see him there.

There was no idiot factor! None. I was not cut off, walked into by peds, no unleashed dogs, cars that saw me at intersections waved me through

...even the drunk on the bike-ped overpass was friendly. I kept waiting to wake up and the dream to end but start to finish a nice ride

**margo49** · 07-01-2006, 08:32 AM

Out at 06.30 to go "round the Lake" (Sea of Galilee to you-all) - 70 km
With my strawb'ry Clif Shot Blocks from my June Secret Sister I felt like a real professsional. (We ain't got nothin' like that here)
Beautiful day and lovely ride. Summer has dried everything off to dusty golds and olive green, but lots of purple-flowered thistles on all the road- and hill-sides. Most of the streambeds were dry but the lake was a glorious turqouise shade and calm.
Only used granny gear once and that for only 50 m so feel pretty cool.
Found *money*

in my back-pack that I'd put there eons ago for emergencies and forgotten about so treated myself to juice and dark chocolate!
Back home to my June Secret Sister water bottle that I didnt want to take a chance it might get scratched on the cage or anything as it has a nice picture on it

**Lifesgreat** · 07-01-2006, 09:07 AM

Joined up with some women from a local cycling club and did 33 miles with them. The weather was perfect, the company was good and I rode trails I have never been on. Life is good.

**Lise** · 07-01-2006, 09:09 AM

Originally Posted by margo49

Out at 06.30 to go "round the Lake" (Sea of Galilee to you-all)

Ahhh... I love Sea o' G! My sister lived in "the Big HL" (Holy Land) for ~ 15 years. We had a wonderful trip around the country when I was 25 and she 21. We took the bus up from Tel Aviv, got off at...oh, heck, can't remember the name...dropped our bags at a hostel, and took off walking along the lake/sea. Walked to a site of ruins of a former Roman spa with hot springs--across the road was the modern-day replacement. There's a great picture of my sister, dripping wet and slimed with algae. She'd gone to cool her feet in the lake, slipped on gunk covered steps, and whoops! Wet and laughing. When we got back to the hostel, our bags were tagged with a label that read, "Two young American blondes". I guess we forgot to tell them our names. That night another hostel guest insisted that we were German. Would only speak to us in German. We don't speak German. I'm thinking beer was involved on his part.

We called that trip the "100 Shekel Tour of Closed Holy Sites". It cost 100 shekels to take the bus at that time, and we were forever showing up right as a church/mosque/temple/historical place closed for the day or was boarded up for repairs!

We had a great time, nonetheless. One of my happiest vacations.

Thanks for the memories, Margo!

**Trek420** · 07-01-2006, 09:56 AM

Lise "Walked to a site of ruins of a former Roman spa with hot springs--"

spas, man those Romans knew how to live. Invade, build spa, repeat. JK. Conquering the known western world is hard work, sometimes you just need a day at the spa.

with apology for the thread drift; Duckless aka Duck on Wheels and my mutual Dad was raised in Israel. His parents came there in around 1921 invited by the Israel Opera co (probably then called the Palestine Opera Co). While popular the little company failed and the family moved to the States or I might have been out cycling with margo49.

**Geonz** · 07-01-2006, 10:40 AM

Led a wonderful Saunter - a solid 7-10 folks of the 25-30 were happy to cruise at 11 mph (I think - no computer), so none of that three people in the very back feeling even mildly inadequate (something about warmer days slows people down around here and I like that

) BEcause we were at a calm pace we could do the extended 24 mile route (more interesting). No flats, no bad dogs, all good stuff :-) (and I've been cranky all week and it seems to be fading - I had less of an urge to CORRECT EVERYONE'S BEHAVIOUR ... maybe it's 'cause I *did* take the riding crop out of the saddle bags. But that's another story... OH, and I was wearing the piggy helmet cover. It *does* fit overthe visor.)

**mtkitchn** · 07-01-2006, 10:56 AM

Rode to Tempe and hooked up with the bike club....did the short route, had a nice bagel sandwich and conversation, then rode home for 34 miles total. This is the first ride I've done in a while and I can feel it

! It was 87 degrees when I left the house at 5:30am and 97 degrees when I rolled in at 9:30. I hopped right into the pool when I got home and that was AWESOME.

**SouthernBelle** · 07-01-2006, 11:11 AM

I had one of those days. My plan was to ride about 50 miles. I got a late start. As I was getting my bottles and camelbak ready, I reached into the freezer and there was only a handful if ice. Not good. So I made do, and set out. It's hot and humid. My legs weren't great, but I usually can ride myself out of that. So I'm riding along feeling really draggy. Hilly course. As I cross over into the next county, I'm passing roadkill every few feet. I cannot get away from the smell. Even when I think I can, skunk smell blends in. This starts having a deleterious effect on my tummy, breathing and head. I finally turn around and come home.

23 miles.

**hirakukibou** · 07-01-2006, 11:18 AM

Rode 50 miles with the club. One of the very strong women complimented me being surpised that I have only been riding for a year (actually serious riding for only 6 months or so) and telling me I have good handling skills. Nice to be encouraged! It was a glorious sunny day for a change and I had a good ride.

**winddance** · 07-01-2006, 11:50 AM

I'm in southern California visiting my parents for a few days, so this morning my father and I rode the bike path to the beach. It's hot down here! I think I have been very spoiled by Bay Area weather!

I managed to keep up with him. This is progress...

**Geonz** · 07-01-2006, 11:56 AM

23 miles is still 23 miles! If it's hot and humid, goals go out the window. (Or in the window, to curl up on a couch and come back another day.) Imagine how yummy you would have felt after a heat exhaustion induced wreck (and they happen every summer).

**bikerz** · 07-01-2006, 12:01 PM

Just back from 24 miles, 2400 feet of climbing! I'm getting a little bit better on this route, although that last bit of Pinehurst threatens to stop me dead every time. And today, as a bit of a reality check, 2 guys just BLEW past me on the steepest part, as if I were only going 3.3 mph or something....

I still can't believe I think this sort of thing is fun (I blame you, SadieKate, and the rest of the NorCal TE Girls Hill Climbing Program!)

**Fredwina** · 07-01-2006, 01:26 PM

Led the club ride, despite 90 plus heat at 7 am, we still had 14 folks. we rode down to the airport at Chino and at at the airport cafe. We made a side stop by the aircraft museum to see the DC-3 and B-17 parked outside. Had a nice brunch and then saw a biplane take off. we had three flats on the way, and my group got co-mingled with a bunch of "racers" from a local shop, we wound up being chased bu a chihuahua. We (the two groups)split up, a my group by the airport in Ontario, we then went a winery before stopping, I did some extra miles, was going to make metric of the day, but decided not to.

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