8/22 rides

[redrhodie]

Hurricane! Well, it's staying off our coast, but still having an impact. Rode out to Brenton Point (my regular ride) this morning before traffic got silly. The seawall was in pretty good condition yesterday. Not so much today!

The first pic was taken on the way out. By the time I went back (20 mins later) the road was covered in seaweed.

Fun ride, but so humid and foggy, it was like riding through hair gel. Gooey!

[andtckrtoo]

I deleted mine and decided to post under Red's as she has the pretty pics...


Had a really good 50 miler today. Started off in the mountains and ended with rolling hills - my favorite way to ride. Had a fun experience - while climbing the hard part of Mt Eden (those in the Bay area will know the hill I mean - it's not long, but it's steep) a really good looking, very nice guy started riding with me. Very friendly - not creepy in any way just one of those very outgoing people (I'm married to one - I recognize the type). He got me over the hill faster than I would have gotten over it alone, and stayed with me for the next five or so miles chatting away. Then he had to veer off to help a couple of ladies with a flat tire. I had to laugh - a modern day knight in shining lycra with an old steel 10 speed for his steed instead of a horse... That kept me smiling the rest of the ride and encouraged me to chat with others (there is a tour today that went along my normal route - tons of cyclists out there - great to see). I met all sorts of interesting people today.
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[Crankin]

I had a nice ride on a day that I thought I wouldn't even ride. I've been struggling with the heat and humidity which has been going on for over a week. My DH sort of forced me out, saying we would go slowly. So we chose our shadiest local route and off we went. The sun had gone in shortly after we left, thankfully. Although it was only 82, the humidity was 75%. As we started, I remembered a guy from our club was leading a ride in the area today, which goes up our street. We saw a few people from the ride, going in the other direction, but there just seemed to be a lot of riders out, and not the people we usually see. Then we stopped for a shady drink and saw a support tent set up in Carlisle, near the school. There was an MS ride going through all of our favorite streets! I had seen nothing publicized about this ride, I only knew about their Cape Cod and NH rides. Anyway, near Great Brook Farm we got rained on, which felt good and it only lasted about 5 minutes. After leaving this area, we headed into Chelmsford for a bit and saw many riders on the MS ride, followed by a couple of support vehicles. As we got within 3 miles of the house, it started sprinkling again and within 15 minutes of us getting home, a deluge opened up, with plenty of thunder and lightening. We timed it perfectly, but I felt bad for those MS riders.
About 24 miles. Am anxiously awaiting the return of cool and dry late summer conditions on Monday.

[momtohanna]

I too wasn't really planning on going out today. I've done my two longest rides on back to back days, and was feeling stiff and a little sore.

However it was the PERFECT Kansas day ~ 78 degrees, no humidity, just a light breeze, my bike BEGGED me to ride it.

So I figured I'd just go out for a couple miles to knock the kinks out, I decided to take it nice and slow and easy. I ended up doing my longest ride yet!!

14 miles, got some hills in and can feel I'm already doing much better on them. YAY.

[jobob]

Lee and I went on one of our favorite routes today - from home to Woodside, with lunch at Roberts Market.

Yee gods there were tons of cyclists in Woodside today!

Funny happening - come to find out, a guy that I know online that I have never actually met in person (David G) was sitting right across the road from me at Roberts Market.

And how did I know that? He took a photo of his friends sitting along the steps of Roberts (who just happened to be sitting near Lee and me), and posted it on Facebook. Yep, there we were!

Excellent ride, about 40 miles with a little bit of climbing. It's so nice to get back into the groove again.

[jobob]

Yikes RedRhodie! You're brave to be riding out in that

[andtckrtoo]

Yee gods there were tons of cyclists in Woodside today

Tour de Menlo went right through Woodside - which would help the numbers. Also went by my neck of the woods - lots on our roads, too.