April 28 ride reports

[7rider]

DH and I did 41 miles from the house to Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C. and back at a 15.7 mph pace. Was a nice ride. Had a couple of guys latch onto our wheels, so DH had to push much harder than he intended (keeping his "race face" on, as he said. Not showing any effort at all), just to try to put the hurt on these guys. Alas, we couldn't shake 'em and they just got a free ride for his efforts. Uh...me, too!
I hit a max speed of 73 mph, according to my Garmin! Woo Hoo. Discovery?? Hello?? Where do I sign??
Silly computers......

[BabyBlueNTulsa]

Group of friends and I drove 45 min from Tulsa to do "Flower Power" down in Muskogee. Yes..everyone..come on... sing it with me, "I'm just an Okie from Muskkk-OH-gi.." LOL Craziness... drive nearly an hr to pay $25 to ride 68 miles of HILLS. yeah... We're nuts. LOL
One hill on the ride map was labeled "respectable hill"... OMG.. the hills before it looked like freekin walls to me.. and I was warned that the "respectable hill" was about a mile long and worse. GUT CHECK!
All in all, it was a great ride. I thank my TRIPLE (and weaving) for making it up all hills without walking any!! On that nasty one though.. if any cars had come along and ruined my pacing, I would have been done-for. LOL I had an avg speed of 5mph on that hill, and that was lucky! HA. I'm surprised I didn't just tip over..going that slow.
Fun note... I did pass a GUY who'd given up before 1/2-way up. He was standing on the side of the road gasping. I think he lost part of his lung somewhere on the spokes. La la lahhh..here I come..mashing and weaving...right on up - no problem. I just wanted to puke at the top and I had sweat dripping off my sunglasses and nose, but hey... THIS IS FUN, right? heehee

Beautiful day... started at 56 and by the end of the ride it was about 80. Low winds... couldn't ask for anything better. Worth all the pain and sweat.

[Jo-n-NY]

This is the first time I am posting a ride report. I had my first club ride of the year. I normally would not have road with the club today, Saturday because of time and other things I have on my platter over the weekend. But I had to make time for this. The AAA was putting on their annual Bike Rodeo at one of the Elementary Schools, actually a school that is next door to the one I went to. They asked our bike club to help out. Our president thought that anyone who wants to be a part of this will meet at the regular ride & time meeting place, and we would take a long route to the school, volunteer our two hours of showing bike safety through all the activities the AAA set up then ride back.

This was so much fun. We got in a 20 mile ride, the route was great with some nice hills. I finally was able to see how my Ruby road up a hill. I kept up very nicely with everyone (I just love this group) even doing stretches of 17 & 20mph. I didn't know how fast I was going until I looked at my computer. Before heading back to the parking lot they stopped for bagel and coffee break that they usually do mid ride.

Oh also very important...it was so much fun working with these little kids grades K-4. My part was to teach them hand signals which I did with another club rider. AAA chalked out a little course with turns. I left with a smile on my face all day long.

Now I cannot wait to be able to ride with the club beginning in June or July.

~ JoAnn

[Fredwina]

Here's mine. It was an adventure. And a half!

[PinkBike]

Yesterday's long-awaited Tour of the Tucson Mountains signals the end of the real season for us here in arid-zona. Should soon start to get in the hundreds every day and that will last til september. We'll still ride of course, but no big races locally. I did the TTM 70.4 miles yesterday in 3:41, 18.9 mph average, and i feel real defeatist about it. the first 30 were very fast, the last 20 were very fast, but the climbing in the middle just wrecked me. i attribute it to the 20 extra pounds i've picked up since turning 50, because i used to be a great climber. well, its off to another forum to search for the magic weight loss program that will quickly and easily transform me into svelte. where's that thread? . . . . . .