Goals

**nuthatch** · 03-31-2005, 04:51 AM

Originally Posted by SadieKate

but 9,670 ft of climbing! Wahoo!

Wow, very impressive, SadieKate! I guess I didn't realize there were trainers that kept track of your elevation gain - I'm calling my thing a trainer but it's just a resistance roller. No wonder I was huffing and puffing on those real hills the other day!!

**Veronica** · 03-31-2005, 05:03 AM

I need to go out and ride 38 miles this morning. Sarah we need to trade houses.

I've gotten over 20,000 feet of climb, because I can't go anywhere without climbing, but I'm down to the wire on my mileage goal.

V.

**SadieKate** · 03-31-2005, 06:08 AM

Originally Posted by nuthatch

Wow, very impressive, SadieKate! I guess I didn't realize there were trainers that kept track of your elevation gain - I'm calling my thing a trainer but it's just a resistance roller. No wonder I was huffing and puffing on those real hills the other day!!

I log the miles from my trainer but I only log elevation gain from outdoor rides. I should go back, subtract trainer miles and then look at the elevation gain from the miles I have left.

V, you can come up here any old time but I'll have to get my Dad to tune-up the harpsichord for Thom. 20,000 climing for March? I still remain impressed that flatlander me is pushing 10k. If only the Mt Tam ride had worked out . . .

Ok, got to get ready for work. Was defragging the old confuser last night so couldn't check up on everyone.

**Veronica** · 03-31-2005, 06:11 AM

You have a harpsichord?! Thom wants a harpischord! Bach sounds SO much better on a harpisichord.

V.

**MomOnBike** · 03-31-2005, 07:13 AM

I'll go one better on the harpsichord thing. My DH and his Dad built one (from a kit, but still...). It got sold to a good home when the in-laws moved from their big home to an elder-condo, and last I heard is still going strong.

None of us in this house plays keyboards well enough to justify the responsibility for it, or I could have had it. I was tempted...

**SadieKate** · 03-31-2005, 08:06 AM

Sorry, Mom, this is a spinet-style harspishord my dad built with the inside of the lid painted by my grandmother. She actually entered the thing in the county fair in Amarillo, TX. She said the judges weren't quite sure what to do with it, but I think she did win a ribbon.

My dad has the really nice 8 ft dble manual at his home. The universities in SoCal used to rent it from him when the big international names came in for concerts. When we moved it, the rule was if you fell, you had to fall under the harpsichord.

I played Mozart in my 4th grade recital on one of the string of harpsichords that went through our house. Now, to get really weird. I actually had a few "pro" gigs (as in a college would hire me to play continuo or our group would play at a home party) back in my twenties when I was still playing the viola da gamba, recorder, krumhorn, you name it.

Ok, now you guys know more of the skeletons in my closet.

**SadieKate** · 03-31-2005, 09:25 AM

This is interesting. I rode twice with V this month. 70% of my climbing was done during these 2 rides, 72 miles and 6,800 ft, which means that I spent 36 of those miles riding at an average 3.6% grade (a couple hundred of the ft was at 17%). They generally don't build railroad tracks steeper than 4%. I think V is abusing her elders.

**Veronica** · 03-31-2005, 02:19 PM

Originally Posted by SadieKate

This is interesting. I rode twice with V this month. 70% of my climbing was done during these 2 rides, 72 miles and 6,800 ft, which means that I spent 36 of those miles riding at an average 3.6% grade (a couple hundred of the ft was at 17%). They generally don't build railroad tracks steeper than 4%. I think V is abusing her elders.

I ask nothing you of that I don't ask of myself.

Gee maybe I'm an Italian mountain goat.

V.

**Veronica** · 03-31-2005, 01:02 PM

Thom's gaga over your harpsichord Sarah. Thet are VERY hard to find on the used market.

V.

**SadieKate** · 03-31-2005, 01:08 PM

If we can get you all up to mtbike Foresthill or Cool, I'll call my dad and arrange a visit. If he's in practice, he might play Scott Joplin for Thom. Or Thom can play it himself.

The little spinet at our house hasn't been tuned in years and probably has a couple broken strings. I know, I know. Neglect. Shame on me. I'm having so much fun riding. Bill only plays the harmonica and I don't believe Mozart or Bach wrote for it. Even my violin lies in the closet ignored. So sad.

**slinkedog** · 03-31-2005, 01:06 PM

Very cool, SadieKate! When I was in college in the chamber choir we did some concerts with authentic period instruments and the sound is just amazing. We had a cool harpsichord lab at the university, too. I considered taking it just so I could mess around on one, but I never did it. I used to play harp, but I'm harp-less right now. I hadn't played the thing since my 5 year old was born, so I sold it to buy my bike.

**SadieKate** · 03-31-2005, 01:10 PM

Originally Posted by slinkedog

Very cool, SadieKate! When I was in college in the chamber choir we did some concerts with authentic period instruments and the sound is just amazing. We had a cool harpsichord lab at the university, too. I considered taking it just so I could mess around on one, but I never did it. I used to play harp, but I'm harp-less right now. I hadn't played the thing since my 5 year old was born, so I sold it to buy my bike.

Geez, wow! I drool over some of the smaller Celtic harps I've seen. I just try to stay realistic over all the stuff I want to do. I need to win the lottery (hard to do when I've never bought a ticket).

Where did you go to school?

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