May 12 ride reports

[SouthernBelle]

Me first again!

Meg and I rode a big loop today. Lots of climbing. Had a flat. We both dropped our chains. With my still new Garmin, I can give lots of stats:

Total miles: 56.87 (A PB!)

New max speed: 37.0 (PB!)

Elevation Gain: 3597 feet. (ouch)

Max grade: 21.2% (double ouch)

Interesting point on the climbing for me. My quads didn't bother as much but my glutes did! Hopefully that means my quads are getting stronger and I'm using more muscles.

Hotter today.

[Meg McKilty]

You forgot: we saved two turtles.

[SouthernBelle]

You forgot: we saved two turtles.

muust always rescue turtles.

[pooks]

Husband and I rode to the local cafe for breakfast. Left cafe, rode through downtown area and I noticed my bike was riding funny. I finally stopped to look (just happened to be in front of a fire station) and it was FLAT. Not low, but FLAT. These are armadillos. That's not supposed to happen, dang it!

Firemen are standing around outside, see me, offer to air up my tire. They do, and when I ride off, it's FLAT again. So we call for help. Firemen offer to put fix-a-flat in it, but say if my tube is messed up badly (and as flat as it was, that sounded like a good bet) it might get all over the inside of the tire itself and be a mess. So we turned down that offer.

They plied us with iced tea and air conditioning and we talked bicycles until we finally got me a ride home.

My bike is now getting its flat fixed. I hope to ride some more before the day is over.


Grrrrrrrr.

[Darby361]

36 miles of sunshine, fields, and some hills! Great day!
Trish

[divingbiker]

I did a 40 mile hilly ride in rural Montgomery County, Maryland with a new riding partner--a woman who works in my building and also bicycle commutes. It was a beautiful day and lots of farmers were in the fields. This was my longest ride of the season, and I felt it.

[meridian]

40-ish mile flat ride today from Lubbock to Slaton and back. First ride of the season over 25 miles. Neck started bugging me a bit on the trip back but overall pretty nice ride for that much of an increase in miles.

Uneventfull - but I did fall at a stop and scratched myself up a bit for the first time this season. A bit embarrasing as it was right on a cross road of a pretty busy highway, and two other cyclists rode up while I was shoving my shifter back to the right place and shaking off the sore hand.

Almost no wind and niiice temps - double bonus.

[Popoki_Nui]

Sixty kilometer romp on "Vee" through the rolling farmlands of Central Saanich, finishing off downtown at the harbour. Silly season (once known as tourist season) is fully underway; today only three cruise ships in berth. Yesterday, five ships disgorged 10,000 tourists into downtown Victoria. Yikes. It's only mid-May...