Rides This weekend 10/26-27

[Crankin]

Did anyone else ride?
It was really windy here yesterday, so I bagged my ride, but today I rode 22.5 miles, including Oak Hill.
And, I found out why I kind of have been feeling like a slug on my Kuota the past 2 weeks. I haven't ridden my Guru at all, and I've been having back issues. I felt like my lowest gear on the Kuota wasn't low enough and climbing was really hurting my back.
Today, when we stopped before the climb of Oak Hill, DH heard my bike squeaking as I got started. He told me stop, and lo and behold, my rear brake had been rubbing. No wonder I felt "off." I seriously was worried my impending 60th birthday had caused a sudden loss of strength. The rest of the ride was much better, and I am not worried about suddenly turning into a sloth.

[Owlie]

I did 27.3 miles yesterday. I should not be this sore.

[Irulan]

I joined some friends of mine for a birthday mtb epic ride. The local to them has an area that has tons of trails. Many of them aren't real long but you can link them in a myriad of ways. Kyle's goal was to get in 20 miles. His wife (my biking pal) and I took a few shortcuts. All in all the two of us got in 24 miles and 3900 feet of mountain biking, her hubby did 29 mile and an extra 1000 ft. Groan...!
It was a beautiful fall day to be out on the trails.

[shootingstar]

I only did around 28 km. with a hill. Did grocery shopping and café hopping. I made sure the whole lovely day in shorts stretched out yesterday.

'Cause today it's been wet snow the whole day. lst snowfall for the season. I went out for 8 km. for coffee somewhere and made sure I started off early enough before things pile on. That was enough. I kept wondering when the wet ground would freeze up or fill up with slush.

[ridebikeme]

I got out for a ride both days, and although I worked very hard because of the wind... well it was very interesting! Yesterday I watched a storm that had the mountain tops socked in, watched it come into the valley and eventually it started to rain. I felt a bit of sleet when I first started the ride, but it went away very quickly and I ended up cutting the ride a couple of miles short simply because it was now raining. Faboulous watching the storm coming in though...

Today was a bit more windy than yesterday, but I was determined to ride anyway. Later in the ride the mountains were again surrounded in very dark clouds, and the weather forecast mentioned that we should have a bit of snow after midnight.

I guess this time of year I always feel as though I just accomplished one less trainer ride for the year, even if it was slower than I would have liked.

Crankin: Glad to hear that your doubts turned into nothing more than brakes that were dragging; you should feel like a ' hero' the next time that you go out HA!

[BikeDutchess]

It is so gorgeous here this weekend. Warm for the end of October - colder and wetter weather is coming tomorrow. Went on our favorite coffee ride this morning with my daughter.


Fall Ride by DutchRosie, on Flickr

[Catrin]

Bike Dutchess, beautiful picture! I am also quite jealous of your weather though it has been nice running weather here.

Crankin - SO glad you found the cause of the problem, that would certainly do it!

I am hoping to be able to get out on my bike in a week or so - I've taken myself off the bike for a couple of weeks - hoping that after this week I will be able to get back out and ride in my favorite park, we will see.

[rebeccaC]

Fall Ride by DutchRosie, on Flickr

great image!!!! I enjoyed looking through your photos on flickr!!!
first weekend for a long bike ride since my double century two weeks ago and without a future ride goal. 87 mile ride into the santa monica mountains with a friend. It feels strange no longer having the goals I've had the last 9 months.