June 3rd Rides

[pyxichick]

I rode over to St. Paul (7 miles) to watch the Capitol Crits. It was a beautiful course where you can see the whole thing from the Capitol steps, and yet there were only about 100 people watching the races. For a city with sooo many people who like to ride bikes, it was a sad turnout for a fun spectating event.

I witnessed a really nasty looking crash right in front of where I was sitting, when one of the cat 1/2 men crashed into a barrier and caused a bit of a pileup. I couldn't look, and the sound was horrific, but nobody had to leave in the ambulance, and I think the worst injury was a broken collarbone.

Then it cleared up a bit so I took the long way home, making it a total of about 30 miles.

I'm never trusting the forecast again. It called for rain all day yesterday and today, and both days I managed to get in a 30 mile ride without getting wet.

Kate

[Nokomis]

Picked up a new Felt Z65 yesterday, first ride today. Rode 30 miles w/ DH, two moderate climbs and finished w/ our fastest average speed so far this spring. Felt Great! No body pain minus the saddle area, could have kept going if my legs were in better shape. Now to resolve the saddle issue & keep on riding to get those legs & lungs in shape!

[Crankin]

We lead a club ride today; only 4 people came. it was cool and cloudy, a welcome change from the past few days. One woman came in a sleeveless jersey, with no jacket. Pretty irresponsible, since rain was forecasted. She didn't realize you can get hypothermia at 60 degrees. I lead up to the lunch point. Of course there was one man who had overstated his qualifications and poor Steve had to do circles to stay behind him. But, all of the people were very nice. I was glad to see that I can climb better than all of them. We stopped at Longfellow's Wayside Inn and ate lunch on the grounds, watching all the people go in for a wedding or shower. I rode sweep on the way back, where we ran into grooved pavement, which I hate and then it started lightly raining about 3.5 miles from the end. The slow guy made it up a big climb pretty well, but then slowed to a crawl right near the end. At the last turn I told him i was going ahead, since it was another climb, and I made it back up this hill at my fastest speed ever.
Most of this ride is on roads that i first started riding on and near my old house. I really miss riding more frequently on these roads. Just being on them made me happy.

[Popoki_Nui]

Well, I thought I'd join some friends on their usual Sunday social ride; as a kind of recovery ride from yesterday's hot 'n hilly adventure, and to meet up with some folks I haven't ridden with yet this year. We left downtown at 10am, it was already hot out, and the leader headed us straight for the hills! OMG...I thought I was going to die. But somehow, something kicked in (training? TITS? complete lack of common sense?) and the hills didn't seem as bad as I feared. Not much of a recovery ride for me, but a nice one anyway and nice to ride with this group again. Pleasant 50km scenic ride through the Highland/Prospect Lake/Central Saanich area NW of Victoria and back.

[PinkBike]

our weekly commute to church, 17 miles each way.
but DH is grounded, the doctor said No Road Bike, so we got him a recumbent and our ride takes a little more time but its a very nice, relaxed pace!
i ride his recumbent to work on saturdays because he doesnt work that day, and i took a different route home yesterday so decided to show him that route today.
its through papago park on the bike path and theres some very short-very steep sections i wanted him to experience. uphills are so hard on the recumbent!!
but i want him to be ready when he gets back on the road bike so i'm kinda pushing him. we probably did a couple extra miles on the circuitous route home.
good ride but very hot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mimitabby]

Did a lovely 16.3 mile ride with Raleighdon: I'll call it the Magnolia mix.
We went up and down hills and had a lovely time. it felt hot; on the way home I noticed it was 71 degrees. (But it's 84 now, so I'm glad we rode in the morning!)

[lauraelmore1033]

Went on a 23 mile club "ramble" through Mill Creek with dh today. The pace was listed as social/moderate, which usually just means moderate pace with regroups and a lot of jockying for position 'cos nobody wants to be behind the fat lady (except for dddddh ). I managed to keep up for most of the ride, but was grateful for the "no drop" policy on the last couple of hills I was surprised to learn that there is more to mill creek than housing developments. There are actually farms and woodsy areas! who knew?! Hubby tells me we averaged 14mph, which is pretty good for me on rolling hills

[Shiraz]

I went on a beautiful long ride of 78 miles of lots of rolling hills and a nice climb up over Garden Creek with a friend. We had a long day but feel pretty.