April 29 Ride Reports

[KnottedYet]

Trek and I didn't do the ride with Mimi, RaleighDon,Kit, X. Other things to do. But we ran into them at our beloved LBS: Recycled Cycles.

[alpinerabbit]

50 miles on Saturday, to my parents house, and 50 miles back on Sunday....

with overall negative elevation, and without getting lost, on the way back, we were 2 hours faster...(we didn't detour on the way there, just wasted time at intersections guessing what the map was telling us)

[Triskeliongirl]

Hey Guys, I arrived in Wellesley yesterday, assembled Feronia, my new S/S coupled bike, and met up with DebW and Newsfsmith for a great ride this morning. After Deb trued my wheel from TSA damage, we set off down route 16. Soon we came upon a racer boy on his black carbon trek, with a flat and no more C02, so Team Estrogen came to the rescue. The forst pic is of Newsfsmith, loaning racer boy her pump. The next two are more shots I took of DebW and Newfsmith along the way. Thanks for a great ride guys!!!
(I took them on my camera phone, so I apologize the resolution isn't great.)

[salsabike]

Yellow, I'm impressed!

We had a beautiful tandem ride today (Mercer Island), 48 miles, several major hills for the first time since probably November, and they went better than we feared they might. It was gorgeous out and we were pleased with ourselves for doing a demanding ride. Hurray! Sorry I missed the TE ride and sorry about your stepdad, Mimi!

[Crankin]

Great pics, Trisk, Deb, and Jean. Hope you didn't get rained on too much.
We were set to ride our Groton-Lost Lake loop, a 40 mile ride we lead every year and ride about 4-5 times a season. Big climbs near the end. At 9:30 the weather didn't look so great and it was still 48 out, so we called our friends and decided to ride closer to home. We set out from Acton and it began drizzling immediately. It stopped, so we headed to Harvard, via Littleton. Immediately I knew my lungs would be funky. That little wheeze started, but I kept going. All 4 of us had sort of bad attitudes, so we planned the easiest of the hill climbs into Harvard and back to our friend's house. I was sweating after the first climb into Harvard center, so I took off my arm warmers and put my rain jacket back on. Of course, then we went downhill, so I froze and that didn't add to my already cranky disposition, so I put them back on.. Then we climbed up part of West Bare Hill Rd. and Scott Rd., which I did not remember as being so LOOOONG. I was in full granny, all the way down, going about 7.5 mph. But as we waited at the top for my friend, my husband said, "UH that was really hard,it's not you." The rest of the trip was basically downhill into Bolton and then back to Boxborough and Acton. Rode past my old house on very familiar roads that I miss. About 2 miles from my friend's house you have to go over a highway and there's a little hill on the street. My legs were dead. By this time we were all separated, since Brant had to go to the bathroom really bad, so he raced home and my husband tried to catch him (we just though he had gone nuts with speed) and Janine was way behind me. After that little hill, I put it in the big ring and pushed it up to about 20, to make it back to their street.
We recovered with tea and Clif bars. I'm glad I did it, but I am dead today.

[cosc]

I rode a 25 mile loop from my house.The wind was more than my fitness level allows. I so enjoyed the sun, and smell that newness of spring offers. Seems I had mostly a crosswind that I had to fight to keep the bike upright. When I got home I felt like I'd done a century -sore all over especially my weakling arms.

[SheFly]

DH got on the bike yesterday for a 30 min spin in the EASY gears trying to get his knee actually moving after his surgery on Weds.

What that means is that I RODE THE FRICKIN TRAINER AGAIN! I'll be back outside this week...

SheFly