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  1. #1
    Join Date
    Oct 2004
    Location
    Sacramento, CA
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    747
    I'm sorry your ride was so rough, Lauren! I've had days like that.

    Today we did a 37-mile loop in beautiful weather. It was a little windy but it sure could have been worse. I was a little tired -- I've been exhausted for the last week and I had hoped the ride would perk me up, but it just made me sleepier. Heh. We stopped for lunch, and I stupidly drank some of the Coke my husband bought, even though Coke + exercise = queasy for me.

    I made it home fine, and tomorrow I go back to the same dorky ride I've been doing all weekend: around the back yard on my mountain bike! Very exciting, but I just put Speedplay Frogs on it and I'm practicing. It's good practice, too, because there is a lot of mud (so much that a couple of times I haven't been able to unclip), and a lot of obstacles, including the four-legged kind that don't get out of the way when you say shoo, or even when you nudge them with your front tire.

    The funniest obstacle, though, is the tennis ball, which one of the four-legged obstacles likes to stick directly under my front wheel, just in case I didn't get the hint the first seven hundred times.

    (I look very silly out there, because I go about 2 miles an hour but I do wear a helmet. There are rocks all over my back yard, and I would feel really stupid if I bashed my head in on a rock in my own back yard.)

  2. #2
    Join Date
    Aug 2006
    Location
    Massachusetts
    Posts
    497
    I did 11 miles as part of a duathlon in the crazy wind also (gusts to 50, yikes). It was quite a challenge. the full description's in the race results board.

  3. #3
    Join Date
    Jan 2006
    Location
    Pacific Northwest
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    Sheesh, what a wild ride

    The weatherman LIED. He said it was going to clear up this aft, so we waited till about 10 am and left for our 50-mile north Lake Washington loop. Somewhere around mile 20, we got violently hailed on (and rained on, but that we do regularly). Hail can really sting when it hits, say, your lower lip.

    Stopped at a rock/gem show that was right there, so we could put on the rest of the rain gear. Went on. Got a rear flat. Took a long time to fix it. Froze our butts (I forgot to say the wind turned and came blowing from the north--read, Canada and cold wind--about 25-30 knots, and temp was 40-something). Went on. Got another rear flat. Arggh. Froze our butts while we were fixing that too. Got home almost in the dark. On the way home, went to visit our beloved Siamese cat Beeper who's in the critical care animal hospital. Cold, wet, dark out.

    Glad we did the ride, though! And got to pet the Beeper. And now really glad to be home, clean, and warm.

    Pam!!! Glad you had a good ride.
    "My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved;I have been given much and I have given something in return...Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and an adventure." O. Sacks

  4. #4
    Join Date
    Apr 2006
    Location
    somewhere between the Red & Rio Grande
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    5,297

    WINDY in Texas!

    DH and set out to do the 52 mile Castle ride again. At the beginning I realized my sinuses were not going to tolerate a long ride. We consulted the map and decided to ride the 29 mile loop. It was windy and hilly. With my sinus problems and tired body, I felt like it was a lot longer than 29 miles. Came home to a warm shower and flannel pjs. I should have just stayed in.
    Amanda

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  5. #5
    Join Date
    Jul 2006
    Location
    Riding my Luna & Rivendell in the Hudson Valley, NY
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    Wow, sounds like all our members all across the country had windy weird tough rides today!
    And Beelady, I got upset stomache while biking too last week, but was alone doing 20 miles and had to keep stopping and sitting on the ground by the side of the road every couple of miles before moving on again.... stomache pain and green around the gills and shaky. thought I'd never make it home, slowly walking up every little hill, but i did, and just had to collapse on the bed to recover for an hour before even taking my shoes off or anything. I know how awful you felt!
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  6. #6
    Join Date
    Feb 2006
    Location
    Aberystwyth, Wales
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    Windy around here too. Headed out on a short 16mi loop before BF woke up this morning so we could spend our Sunday puttering around together. Had a granola bar before heading off and had a fry-up to look forward to when I got home. Heading out I was cruizing feeling great, then I turned and headed for home and hit the headwinds. Still did ok and had a very nice ride and a very good breakfast when I got home.

  7. #7
    Join Date
    Feb 2005
    Location
    Concord, MA
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    Unhappy

    Well, the 50 mph gusts were just a bit too much for me. I really wanted to ride yesterday, but my last experience in high winds, on my tour in Canada was not pleasant. I don't like being pushed out into the traffic! We also went for a hike. We did 5.5 miles in one of the Acton conservation lands (actually 2, we crossed a road to make the hike longer). There were a couple of tricky stream crossings and it was slippery from Saturday's rain, but it was fun. I took one of my snowshoe poles to help me cross the streams and it really helped. There were 2 ponds on the hike, one with a beautiful overlook and benches to sit on. I am hurting a little bit today!
    It's supposed to be 68 tomorrow, so I already brought my cycling gear to school. I will go on a ride right when the students leave and be able to get in at least 15 miles before I have to worry about darkness.
    Today, I'm going to the gym.

  8. #8
    Join Date
    Jul 2006
    Location
    sunny scottsdale, az
    Posts
    638
    we didnt have killer winds at the palo verde nuclear century in southwest phoenix, but enough that our outbound avg speed was 18.5 and our inbound was 14.5. but what a blast DH and i had! sorry mtkitchen about your blowout, but it was great to meet other TEers, really cool. guess i need a TE window sticker now

 

 

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