November 2 Weekend Rides

[Catrin]

Whoooohooooo I FINALLY got to ride after 2 weeks

Ok, so it was only 18 miles, but it didn't seem wise to push it after some heavy leg presses yesterday although my legs feel fine. So does my knee - though it did twinge just a bit when I stood in the saddle going over a very rough patch of pavement.

It was a beautiful ride, sunshine filled afternoon. I did happen to have on my PI Amfib tights and Barrier shoe-covers, along with several wool layers. It wasn't too much however, it was only in the last .5 mile home that I started to feel a bit over-dressed. Hopefully I can ride tomorrow, but they are calling for showers so I wanted to make certain I rode today just in case. There were several parts of my route that had a pretty stiff headwind, but it is that time of the year!

[Crankin]

And I finally got to ride with Hirakukibou, after a couple of weeks of trying to plan a ride. It was great, even though it's cloudy, breezy and there were sprinkles along the way. We just did our usual shorter route through Great Brook Farm, and caught up on 3.5 months of missed talking and riding! It's about 22 miles for me. Unfortunately, when I got back I noticed that somehow, all my yearly mileage on my Kuota had been erased. I was checking it, because even though I rode my other bike today, I thought today or even maybe my last ride was the day i finally got to 2,500 miles. Thankfully, I had written down some figures on the back of a notepad, so I added in last Saturday's ride and the Sunday before, and I am giving myself 2,500, based on that! I know I won't get to 3K, but 2,500 was my minimum.

[Giulianna23]

Heading out to Eagle Creek Park in about 5 minutes...hoping to do at least 15 miles....

[Catrin]

Heading out to Eagle Creek Park in about 5 minutes...hoping to do at least 15 miles....

Have fun I started there, but left the park and hit some roads north and east of there, then finished up coming back through the park. It is easier to do that at 1:00 pm than later on a Friday afternoon!

Congratulations Crankin on meeting your goal!

[murielalex]

I got out this morning at 6AM for a 15-mile ride to try out a new saddle, a Gilles Berthoud Marie Blanque. I loved my Brooks B17, but I kept riding in the rain or in a perpetual Florida dripping sweat, and never managed to get it covered it time, and was getting the hammock effect, even after tensioning it. I've been though a few agonizing or just bearable saddles since and thought I'd give this one a shot. I love it. I was a bit nervous as the leather is much thicker than the Brooks, but within a miles, I'd already forgotten about the saddle. I'm really looking forward to riding this weekend. It was a stunningly beautiful day today, and it's been really crappy with rain and/or heavy winds near every weekend lately. I think I'm going back to my Brooks for a few weeks though, as I have a 165-mile charity ride in two weeks, and however much I like this saddle, I don't think I'm quite ready to risk breaking it in that way.

[Owlie]

I should be able to get a ride in tomorrow, as I'm off work and not doing overly-taxing experiments this weekend (they're all prep work followed by 6 hours of waiting). Nothing too long, maybe 25 miles.