June 30 rides

[makbike]

I got myself out of bed early this morning and drove into Louisville to join the LBC for its 30/60/100 ride. I opted for the 30 given the hills involved in the 60/100. The 30 had plenty of hills mixed in to keep things balanced. It was a nice ride, very scenic.

[7rider]

DH and I did the "N2" Ride - the "No Name" ride put together on Saturday mornings by a bunch of folks from the Sunday ride with our LBS. This crowd is plenty fast, but not the Type-A riders that populate the sunday ride. Was a very social, chatty group, and they all knew each other well. I was the total newbie in the group, although I knew many of the folks there from the LBS ride (although they are the A/B riders, and I hang with my peeps in the C ride). Still, they were very welcoming. We did their standard route - 40 miles from Silver Spring out towards Riley's Lock and back. I did it in a personal best for this year (and probably for the past 4 years!) of 17.7 mph average. Ugh. Now, a quick power-nap, and then DivingBiker is coming over to help load the kayaks for a paddle with KaliDurga!

[mudmucker]

Went for a lovely ride into southern New Hampshire; from Phillipston, MA to Fitzwilliam, NH town common and back, about 41 miles. Sunshine, solitude, zoned, became one with the earth, and shook off the hectic work week I had. SO arrived shortly after I got back. He gave me a leg and back massage. Yum.

[roguedog]

34 miles this morning with the intent of catching one of my fave club rides. Note the word intent.

Sigh.. got myself a little lost. turned around to look for the right road. Got there a tad late but saw a cluster of bikes up ahead stopped a few lights up. Went to chase them and lost them when i was stopped at the light. I was ONLY 1 block away...

Oh..well, so I head home and just decide to enjoy the day.. following the road where we were supposed to meet. DOH. Turns out I should have jsut gone over the hill before turning around and they were just down the hill. LOL.

So I chuckled my way home and enjoyed the scenery.

Hey.. if nothing else I averaged 14.6 mph today. My fastest ever.. and I got a laugh.. at myself

[Fredwina]

I did 63.63 miles
I did the club ride, and i actually managed to hang with the Fast riders until we got to the fist hill, where I got dropped. I tried to chase back one, but only managed to hit every red light for 5 miles I then took the short cut up to Jiffer's hill (i went up Padua, and the group goes up Mills). I managed to barely the fast riders regroup at Shinn. I could see them and this this point, I could have easily chased the down (descending muscles ), but another Lady had caught me on the climb, so we waited for her DH and another gal to make it and recover, then we rode back to the coffee shop together, doing another Killer climb in the process(Day Creek Blvd to Eitwanda).
I had a smoothie at the place next door to the coffee house. and then did Neely's Corners(15 and Sierra). That was real fun, since the temps are in th high 90's. Had a chocolate milk and a nap when I got home.

[trekin']

A group of us got together today and rode part (41 miles) of The Flattest Century of the East (not), starting at UMassDartmouth, and meandering through Dartmouth and Westport. We are from Connecticut and Massachusetts, thus our team name MassConnFusion....had perfect weather, beautiful scenery, and did 3 rest stops: the Lloyd Center Nature Center, where we admired the view and said hello to the turtles, Bayside Restaurant, where we ate outside and admired the view of Buzzard's Bay and the Elizabeth Islands, and Wood's Veggie Stand, where my sister chatted with the chickens. We all rode at our own pace, chatted, laughed, got to know each other, and basically enjoyed ourselves. Oh, and all except one rider are TE members!

We are all signed up to ride the century in September...it ought to be an interesting day! Here is a picture of us all of together: From left to right, Deb, Janlyn, Lynette, Bet, Carolyn, Louise

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Cool picture! I love seeing photos of women riders having a good time.

I gardened and shoveled mulch all day today- sore but happy.

BUT....my DH did his first century today!!! I chose not to push myself that much until maybe this Fall.
He went with a 60 year old friend. Poor DH, when he got home he had to lie down and then threw his guts up into a bucket. Then he took a shower and is drinking cool water and resting some more. We go out to dinner with the century friend in half an hour! I think the hurling helped him though- he looks much better now, I think he'll be alright.

Glad I stuck with the gardening today!

[Aggie_Ama]

Lisa- that sounds terrible. Did he get dehydrated? Congrats to him on finishing, but not a memorable after ride.


DH and I set out for 52 miles. First the rain popped up. It was sprinkles at first then heavy. I had a minor panic attack because I just lost a lot of visibility. I calmed down, dumped the water from my shoes and told myself riding in the rain was a skill I was working on so I needed to get moving. We start up a tiny bump (not even a hill) and I notice my front tire is going flat! Change the flat, start riding again.

As we ride for the next 10 miles the sky is getting really dark and I figure here comes round number two. We get to the half way point and we hear thunder. We back track 1.5 miles to a historic church and take shelter under a portico. After we are safely tucked under shelter I called my mom to check the radar. She said there is a pretty decent size thunderstorm to our west. We decide to stay put but after 20 minutes haven't even seen a drop of rain! I call my sweet mom back who looks at the radar again and confirms the storm is now moving away from us. We hop back on the bikes and have an uneventful ride until we get to the hilly county road where much of the bridges have been washed out! It was quite unnerving to ride over such rough road going into a climg. We get seven miles from home and the sky starts to get REALLY dark. Nothing like a thunderstorm coming to ignite the after burners. We just got home and there is thunder overhead.

56 miles
15.4 average
4.5 hours total (including stops).