September 27th Rides

[Cassandra_Cain]

Lisa....Xeney...Popoki_Nui...great posts. love the pictures, the notion of bike dates, and the bike ham

On a practical note...

Rode for the first time since Sunday. Rode an easy pace for 20 minutes to start. Then the work. Did hill repeats. Basically five climbs....two on a 7.0% grade, one on a 9.7% grade, and two on a 15.1% grade, with the descent on each one being the rest period.

I'm trying to get 40,000 ft of climbing for september. Now if only I could get up a lot faster!

[Popoki_Nui]

I'm trying to get 40,000 ft of climbing for september. Now if only I could get up a lot faster!

Forty THOUSAND feet?? Ay carumba! I'm impressed!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Here's a picture of me and my husband enjoying one of our "biking dates":
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...6-09-20066.jpg

(well, sort of.....)

[Cassandra_Cain]

Here's a picture of me and my husband enjoying one of our "biking dates":
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...6-09-20066.jpg

(well, sort of.....)

funny!

[Haudlady]

Yesterday I rode my new bike ( http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showthread.php?t=10501 )to work for the first time. It was very foggy in the morning (I didn't need to drink any water - I was absorbing enough just from all the moisture in the air!), but beautiful and sunny for my ride home.

Hey - it turns out that my new road bike is much faster on the commute than my moutain bike! Who would have guessed? Plus, with a real computer (instead of my best guess), I discovered that my half commute is actually 7.01 miles each way. I had been selling myself short, mileage-wise. I guess I am one of those "bean counters," Knotted!

I am still trying to get used to how the road bike handles. It is much more responsive. I almost keeled over at one point - trying to put my water bottle back in its cage, it brushed against the brake cable... - to my utter surprise, I didn't quite crash into the guard rail. It was close, though.