September 10 rides

[Fredwina]

I did a brief one Had a blowout and need to go look at furniture
Along the Hudson in Albany:

Darn irene

Ped brdge over I-787 to Downtown Albany:

[azfiddle]

I rode 25 miles up to Saguaro NP and back, with the 8 mile park loop, and met up with DH for a coffee date. It rained a huge amount south of Tucson last night and the normally dry wash I pass was running almost bank to bank. The rain was much lighter in the mountains above Saguaro NP and none of the washes were running at all.

Sorry, I don't know why the photo is rotated 90 degrees- you'll just have to look at it sideways I guess.

[pll]

Nice pictures Fredwina! I had missed those (and I still remember a video with very cool blue grass music... or at least I think it was blue grass). Have you moved? I thought you lived in the west coast.

[redrhodie]

I rode about 39 miles with a saddle issue. One of the women I ride with asked me if it felt like I was riding on the seat post. I wonder how she knew? After the ride, we did some major surgery on my saddle, so I hope that's that. Other than that, the ride was fun. We had a post ride pot luck breakfast. Yum.

[Fredwina]

yep. lost my job (got tele-fired. what fun!) and got a call about 3 weeks asking if I could be in albany on 9/1. Took it, and will see if can last a year - I'm currently living across the Hudson in Rensselaer , where Yankee Doodle was composed. maybe I should change my avatar......

[indysteel]

DH and I did a short road ride today and were firebombed by swarms of some kind of small bug. Then were attacked by an even bigger bug. As in the size of a small bird. I have never encountered anything quite like it. They also smelled funny. Ugh. We were supposed to mountain bike today, but one of our cats reacted a bit badly after getting her annual shots, so we stayed home this morning and early afternoon to make sure she was okay (she is). My guess is that it would have been more enjoyable. If the forecast improves a bit, we'll try again tomorrow.

[CyborgQueen]

Went on a 91.1k Rememberance ride. Nearly 3k of us (there were 1 mile walkers, 9.11k runners as well) with names of who we are doing it in memory of. The person I had was a Senior Director of cantor fitzgerald. This company lost the most employees, 658. The company owned 101-105th floors of the North Tower. So it was an honor to do it for him, as well as finding out about his family. His wife had his baby 4 months after 9/11. It was also my longest ride to date. I feel awesome. I was a little slower than I normally would have due to staying back with a friend instead of dropping him (73 years old!!). I also got to touch an I Beam from the WTC. So it was nice and special. Spent the ride singing patriotic songs.

I was very very close to kissing asphalt going 25mph. Car got very dangerously close to me, and luckily nothing happened. Had a little guardian angel. My friend and I slowed down our pace a little bit after that encounter. Hope everyone else had an enjoyable ride!!