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  1. #1
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    Quote Originally Posted by trigurl
    How do ya'll get in so many miles? after 11 one way and looking at yet another hill, I turned tail remembering I still had hills to climb to get back home. Unforn. I don't have much flat land to ride on here, if you go any distance you WILL have to go up hill, kinda makes me miss living in Charleston, SC, not a hill around worth mentioning.
    Gotta learn to "love" hills! Embrace them, think of them as that extra scoop of ice cream you get to eat afterwards! Hills are definitely the biggest challenge for me too - I am pretty fast otherwise but am definitely a hill slug. My heart rate goes WAY up to my max on them, and I huff and puff, but as I get more and more fit, I recover a lot quicker after each one. Here in the Piedmont of NC, the terrain is rolling, and there is no way to ride without hills. Every one you do will make you stronger...just keep at it, and they will get easier!

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    First day of spring

    on Sunday, and the first time I've put together 30 continuous miles (I've only had my bike since end of January, a newbie, this was my 3rd group ride) so high five! What a gorgeous day...tulip trees and jonquils blooming, horse farms, birds chirping, 75 degrees and just overcast enough that you didn't need your shades.

    Wooohooo, how perfect can it get? Hope spring comes to the rest of us soon!

  3. #3
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    I sooo want to ride :-(

    I'm with CorsairMac.. except my lungs are going to the UK Lung Association

    The worst is .. we had a tandem delivered on Sunday, and I've been too poorly to even sit on it I'm spending this week working really hard on getting better so we can ride at the weekend, I find it so hard to not be doing anything all day, but it's working, I'm recovering quicker than I normally would (when I carry on working, shopping, cleaning blah blah blah )

    Pleeease let this sunshine last through to weekend

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    Quote Originally Posted by shewhobikes
    on Sunday, and the first time I've put together 30 continuous miles (I've only had my bike since end of January, a newbie, this was my 3rd group ride) so high five! What a gorgeous day...tulip trees and jonquils blooming, horse farms, birds chirping, 75 degrees and just overcast enough that you didn't need your shades.

    Wooohooo, how perfect can it get? Hope spring comes to the rest of us soon!
    75 degrees? In Spring? Goodness, that would be a heatwave here - in summer!!
    Life is Good!

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    Ot

    Off Thread: How much longer are you in England Snappy? (hopes I remember right that snappy is moving to Aus?)
    Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, champagne in one hand, strawberries in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming: "Yeah Baby! What a Ride!"

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    Quote Originally Posted by SnappyPix
    75 degrees? In Spring? Goodness, that would be a heatwave here - in summer!!
    Welcome to Alabama, where a heat wave starts in May and generally goes through September. Plenty of 90+ days and 90+ humidity.

 

 

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