Oct 7 rides

[Cassandra_Cain]

Today I hit a new record for myself! 41.5 miles! Woo-HOOO!!

It was a great all-day biking day for me, and a new longest distance ride!
I'll probably sleep like a rock tonight.

Great to hear Lisa - PR's are always a good thing

So is sleeping like a rock!!!

[Cassandra_Cain]

Saturday morning. Ride. Of course -oops, wait. Clouds, gloomy, and threatening skies. Hmmmm. A nap.

2 hours later. Ah, there's the sun, let's go!

I wasn't sure how I wanted to approach today's ride. It was the usual 4000 feet of climbing @ 5.2%. Partly I considered doing L4 intervals up with easier periods between as well as a few other options.

Naturally I decided to do it as an all-out time trial.

Felt like I was flying at first, starting out a bit too hard. My pace leveled off and I made it in good shape to the base of the ski area @ 8500 ft. After that though the next 2000+ feet were much harder, like always. From the base of the mountain to the summit, apparently Vo2max drops by about 7-10% even for someone acclimated to altitude like I am - which probably explains why the 2nd half of the climb feels disproportionately hard, that and it is steeper.

It was a grind, but I forced myself to push hard through the less steep sections which is precisely where the body usually wants to take it easy. Very challenging to the mind and body, to keep yourself at the limit nonstop.

Easily broke my own PR from last week, doing it well under 2 hours.

It was pure hoots and grins on the way down zipping along over 40mph and passing a car

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

It was pure hoots and grins on the way down zipping along over 40mph and passing a car

I passed a car today too!

(but it was parked)

[mtkitchn]

It was actually cool this morning in Phoenix (64 degrees), so my ride was quite pleasant. Did 23.5 miles, and felt good during the whole ride. I've really gotten out of shape recently, but am happy that this ride didn't hurt me at all.

[Cassandra_Cain]

I passed a car today too!

(but it was parked)

LOL

[midgetcycler]

Didn't ride today, but I will be going out tomorrow! Hopefully I will hit about 45 or so miles. Just looked at the odometer, and I am only 46 miles shy of hitting 1000 miles on my bike! Wish me luck!

[Aggie_Ama]

You can do it Midgetcycler!!

Today I got back on the bike. I have been very lazy since my husband was in the hospital last month. I think we only rode twice. Today we ran several errands and then got the bikes ready for a short ride. We were racing daylight but managed to get in 18.37 miles. The hills told me I need to get some work before the metric we want to do next month. I did manage to average 16.7 mph.

DH has a colonoscopy Monday, so we won't be riding again until Tuesday. It felt great to be back on the bike!

[salsabike]

Did a 30 mile tandem ride on the Sammamish River Trail and saw dozens and dozens of spawning salmon. Don't know whether I'm weird or what, but I thought it was a simply awesome sight.