DH and I did the Sunday morning shop ride at our LBS. He rode with the A/B group. Mike, the LBS owner wanted to pull the reins in on the A ride, which has gotten a little too competitive lately, so he had the A and B riders go together. It was, I hear, a pretty blistering pace. I went with the C-ride. Slower, but still speedy. We were cruising along MacArthur Blvd at about a 22 mph pace. By the time we got back to Beach Drive and into the park, the C group had pretty much broken up, so I dropped solo down into Rock Creek Park to add another 8 miles or so to my total.
38.75 miles at 16.9 mph pace. 1750 ft in climbing and 3800 calories burned. Yay! So, DH and I celebrated our first successful ride with the shop for the season by going to the deli next door and getting poppyseed hamantashen! Yummmm....
Oh, and I jumped up 2 more places in the 2500 in 2007 standings - to a whopping 27th place! (Nicole....I'm gaining on you!) Yay all around!
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04-22-2007, 02:04 PM #1
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04-22-2007, 02:33 PM #2
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Busy day for the TE-DC gang, I see.
I drove out to Williamsport, MD, to cruise the C&O Canal towpath. It. was. beauuuuuutiful.
Rode 30 miles from Williamsport to the top of Big Pool (at Fort Frederick State Park) and back to Williamsport, then decided that I had more in me so I headed a few miles downstream of Williamsport and back up to make it a total 35 mile ride. Managed to maintain an average of just over 13mph, in spite of dodging other cyclists (lots of families with little kids on bikes, a few folks with panniers who looked like they were riding the whole 184.5 mile towpath), pedestrians, and dogs (leashed and unleashed). Probably only 100 feet of total elevation (if that), but I did have the excitement of taking the bike up to 20mph down a very gravelly slope at a spot where the canal used to drop through four locks in a row. I know that's not fast to some of you speed-demons out there, but the idea of wiping out on a gravel trail had me on pins'n'needles. Fun, though 
Could the weather stay like this all summer, please, pretty please???"How about if we all just try to follow these very simple rules of the road? Drive like the person ahead on the bike is your son/daughter. Ride like the cars are ambulances carrying your loved ones to the emergency room. This should cover everything, unless you are a complete sociopath."
David Desautels, in a letter to velonews.com
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