March 24 rides!

[SouthernBelle]

Lisa, Hope you're right!

Makbike, I looked to see whee your town was. I was hoping you were further south.

[Celeste]

Today was also my Century ride long training day with my TNT group. Goal miles 60...On the map it was just a little over 58. Smaller group today than usual; I may know why now. That was a rough ride between the wind, some on and off rain and very slick roads, dogs chasing us (lots of them..I felt like dog bait!), worms dangling from trees on some kind of weird sliky stuff , freeway feeder road riding with traffic and construction, debris and I now think I am having saddle issues.

We had longer stretches today between rest stops. First was 10 miles; second was 10 miles and the next two were 15 each. The last was 8 miles or so but I think that 8 miles was the hardest because we were mostly on the feeder road with so much traffic you could not call out and communicate very well. Lots of debris too. Several people got flats today.

I made it to just over mile 58 when I heard my back tire pop. I could see the end of the ride location but my tire had punctured as well as the tube. Grr. Oh well, SAG wagon to my rescue and I rode in the van the last half to three quarter mile. What a bummer! But hey! At least I made it that far!

Definately an interesting day to say the least! This is a distance record for me! Yippee!! My computer said 58.15 miles! Hooray! We took my beautiful Celeste Bianchi to the bike shop for a new tire so she is now cleaned up and back to normal. Now I am going to put my feet up. Ahhh!

Have a good week ladies!!

[SheFly]

Robyn - great day out for your ride today! We have to get it in now - I heard it's supposed to freaking S*** tonight... Sigh.

We got out again today as well, for a longer ride. Went with DH and another friend, plus a couple on a tandem. We did some pretty good hills (headed to Harvard...), and after 57 miles, my legs are toast.

I feel good about 125 miles in the past three days though. That puts me at 160 for the week, making this my biggest week of the year.

Now PLEASE, Mother Nature, can you skip the snow????

SheFly

[Kano]

Thirteen point somethin' on the new Roubaix!

Thru subdivisions, and for a while I was sure we were lost -- met some darling little girls, "why are you riding your bikes here?" and "we ride our bikes here" -- and the BIG question, "what's that thing on his glasses?" (DH's mirror)

New bike handles beautifully. possibly needs a little adjusting in the shifting, but maybe that's just I need to learn how to use them! I had a weird noise at first, only while pedaling, which of course concerned me. Surprise, surprise, it went away after my first drink from the camelbak -- I guess the ice shifted into a comfortable position!

What a beautiful day in our neighborhood!

Karen in Boise

[mimitabby]

Lycra at the Opera. our ride leader on the right...

Okay, the morning came early, dark, rainy and windy. Raleighdonson is a night owl.
How was I going to wake him up before 8am? Besides, it was dark rainy and windy.

We decided to drive to the theater in Redmond which was showing the Barber of Seville LIVE from the NY Met.

DH at the last minute offered to take us and our bikes to the theater so we could just ride home. OH. I liked that idea.

Raleighdonson just got a brand new Raleigh one way; a fixie, and was unusually eager to ride; so we did.

Me on SPD's for my first real ride, he on his new bike for his first ride of any distance.

The opera was fantastic, funny, beautiful catchy lyrics... then we went to a THai restaurant for a late lunch, and when we left it was pouring. But then it stopped. We hardly even got wet! we rode along the Sammamish river trail
at a scorching 16 mph for a good ways, following a couple on a beautiful lavendar Mercian (yes, now that i've decided to get a Davidson I will be dogged by Mercians) eventually we quit following them and slowed to a pleasant 14 mph.

I was enough behind my son to watch a drama of a dog on too long a leash that charged him ... Raleighdonson went off the trail handy-ly, and did not get hurt, and the dog owner was sufficiently aroused so that when i came by the dog was firmly in his grip.


All along the way, I unclipped and reclipped my right pedal, the whole ride went off FLAWLESSLY.

Thanks everyone for your support, suggestions and encouragement

[roguedog]

Went out on a gorgeous ride from Sunnyvale to Saratoga with an apprehensive, nervous co-worker.

He had some troubles with the hills but other than that was a wonderful little jaunt for him.

Afterwords, in true newbie style, we went to the bike store so he could get clipless pedals, sidi shoes, a real bike jersey and some spare tubes.

We even went to his place so he could ride around clipless just to test the waters. Went fine. He even faked an emergency stop just to see if he'd panic and fall over. He did fine.

Woo.. he ain't ever gonna ride with me again cuz it's too expensive ) (since I couldn't get Mimi to spring for a custom Ebisu, I had to make someone else pay today )

Evil One aka RD ....

[mimitabby]

you're pretty good Roguedog, maybe it's good (for me) that you live in another state!