May 20th ride report

[salsabike]

It's "Coulon" Park, and poor Mimi! That does NOT sound like a good time. Although it does feel good once you're back home...

We DID ride today. Logboom to Marymoor to Blazing Bagels, and back, tossing in the Bothell campus hill on the way home just to make sure we keep up our hill climbing. It wasn't bad--sporadic drizzle and warm when we started, colder and more regular showers when we finished--but I was glad we were doing the 30 rather than the 60 mile ride today. And after we got home, it started SERIOUSLY raining, so nice to be home.

[Geonz]

Okay, I rode!! To my surprise I WOKE UP at 5:00 w/o the alarm... but it was still 6:15 before I was out the door and riding out to Monticello, 24 miles away, where the Lions Club has their Sangamon River Ride. At one point I saw another cyclist a mile or three in front of me, but I wasn't gaining
Did the 42 mile ride (shorter options... they have a 16 miler with the rest stopat 13 miles which is ROTTEN if you ask me!!), consumed a pork chop sandwich and beans and hopped on the bike toride home inthe slight tailwind. Pulled in with 91.6 miles... yea, I have temporarily nudged in front of a certain rabbit at bike journal
SHowered and checked email and rode out to chat about the Champaign Bicycle Plan because it turns out they are at least pretending to be having one (Urbana-Champaign is number ten in the "top ten" green communities... but if it were ust Urbana it would benumber 5... Champaign is a little more business oriented than our People's Republic of Urbana )
Went via LBS because (excuse for the day ) otehrwise I might have ended the day at 98 miles; ended up with a sidetrip and 107 miles. Got gloves because doing 100 miles without them was a little sore-making. Got sunglasses 'cause they have 'em for ten bucksand I'd ridden without them. Got another shot of lubrication on that stuck seatpost - but my LBS guy said it'sgonna take something more (like squirting thestuffin upside down and letting it sit afew days - all this to raise the seat, eh??)

Our weather perfect - 7mph winds, sunny, 80's.

[mimitabby]

It's "Coulon" Park, and poor Mimi! That does NOT sound like a good time. Although it does feel good once you're back home...

We DID ride today. Logboom to Marymoor to Blazing Bagels, and back, tossing in the Bothell campus hill on the way home just to make sure we keep up our hill climbing. It wasn't bad--sporadic drizzle and warm when we started, colder and more regular showers when we finished--but I was glad we were doing the 30 rather than the 60 mile ride today. And after we got home, it started SERIOUSLY raining, so nice to be home.

where the heck did you find WARM? maybe the warmness was in your state of being, because it sure wasn't on the west side of the state of Washington!