July 31st rides

[tulip]

I had a good ride to work on a slightly different route. A few streets in downtown DC have lanes dedicated to bikes and buses. Well, no one in cars actually pays attention to this lane restriction...but I took the lane (the one that says in huge letters on the pavement BIKES AND BUSSES ONLY), and you guessed it, I got honked at and yelled at. But I held my ground!

When I got to the MUP, it was nice and peaceful.

My fender is coming loose from all the rough pavement in town so I had to stop to tighten it. I was thinking of removing my fenders, but I know as soon as I do, we'll get alot of rain...and I don't like to get a stripe up my backside.

[Tater]

Wow, what a difference a few degrees makes. Lately it has been in the upper sixties to low seventies when I leave the house in the morning. Today, it was fifty-four! Cool enough to send me back into my closet looking for a long sleeved top for the ride in. I prefer cooler weather and the ride in was just awesome. Made me wish that that temperature would be the high for the day, rather than the low. Come on, autumn!

[Brandy]

Last night as I logged my miles from the group ride I realized that I was 24.39 miles short of a 500 mile month. I begged Tiff to join me for an early morning ride and she's such a great friend...she said yes!! I was totally dragging this morning, the headwinds were killing me and little bumps felt like mountains, but we did it and I reached my goal...plus a mile!

July was a 501 mile month for me!

[Tiffanie]

Brandy, you don't know how close you were to ending up riding solo! I was done at mile 2!

[Brandy]

LOL. Well, thanks for hanging in there with me. You know I love ya for it. I was done as soon as we started too. That 25 miles felt way longer than the 63+ we did yesterday!

[spokewench]

Don't usually make a habit of riding with my husband on the mountain bike but I didn't have any rides planned so I invited myself on the ride on the mountain yesterday with my husband and a couple of other guys. It's just too hard for me to keep up on the rocky technical stuff, but I went for it anyway. Well, it turned out to be a great ride! The ground was wet from a really nice rain so the traction was tacky and perfect, and I rode all of a downhill that I NEVER ride all of. I also hung in there real well on all the hills, I guess all the training I did for hte Bicycle Tour of Colorado paid off for me. It has given me great endurance something which I have always been lacking in. I was so proud!

It is very unusual to have a lot of humidity here in Flag, but right now the humidity is pretty high with monsoons going every day. The mountain was beautiful and misty!

[Fredwina]

DDH,
It was good to see you back at it!. It was raining when I woke up, so I decided to sleep in.