July 17 rides

[Velobambina]

Got in 43 miles starting at mid-morning. Every other week, I get to work at home, so I can squeeze in a good ride [one of the few good things about my current assignment]. Today's was a nice one--it didn't feel as hot/humid as yesterday's ride but I ended up downing a couple bottles of fluid. Got in some good hammer intervals. By the end, I was toast.

[Susan126]

Today I went mountain biking and had an awesome (muddy) time with a friend. Yesterday I did a 45 mile road ride with another friend.

I just love summers!

Sue

[ehirsch83]

definitely overheated today! Went out for an easy 30 since I did 50 yesterday, the plan was a high cadence ride. About 20 miles into it(so part way home) I had already gone through both of my water bottles and was extremely overheated. They each had an electrolyte energy drink in them. So I stopped at a Subway to refill my bottles. The soda machine was in the seating area, so I mixed one of my bottles with some lemonade( i felt bad, I didn't pay for it...but I had no money and felt like I needed some sugar). I ended up sitting down outside for a few minutes until I didn't feel like I was going to keel over!!(so odd.. I have never overheated like this). By the time I turned into my neighborhood I had finished both of these water bottles.

All in all I got in 32 miles, rode the majority of it at a high cadence, I had 3 or so miles after I refilled the water bottles where I sat a few mph below where I wanted to, but then I seemed to get a 2nd burst of energy.

so not the best ride unfortunately, but still pretty much did what I planned on doing.

[Crankin]

I didn't ride today, but I did do 45 minutes of core work, weights, stretching with Mr. Street on DVD. Spent part of the afternoon at the vet with my cat. She is getting old...
Tomorrow I will be riding with PlushRide (Renee), who I haven't seen in a year. We are meeting at 7 to avoid the rain, heat, humidity so i guess I have to get to bed at a decent hour. We plan on doing 30-35 miles.
I am leaving Thursday for our annual cycling trip to the Berkshires. The weather looks like it will be terrible and I am bummed. Rain is definite for most of Friday and maybe even part of Saturday. Hopefully,it will be the intermittent kind of rain or start late in the day. Not that there isn't a lot of other stuff to do there; we already have our 4 dinner reservations and Tanglewood tickets.

[batsheva]

went out this afternoon on a trail north of orlando just after a lightning storm so was not 95 degrees for once and oh my! what a difference when the temp is just in the 80's - was doing great and was in the rhythm.... 13 miles in 45 mins, which is great for me..

so all going great until a black mercedes came around the wrong side of a one way exit that crossed the trail and i had to emergency stop and crashed on the road - just crashed myself and not the car-- he didnt even pause so dont think he even saw me even crash... brakes jamming and handlebars at an unusual angle, leg bleeding, i slowly biked back to car and to bike shop... they fixed brakes and handlebar in 20 seconds flat-- left it with them to check over though...

was so relieved i had my cellphone on me and my hemlet on, in case it had been worse... bet my leg is going to be soooo bruised tomorrow!!

all's well that ends well tho' :-)

[ehirsch83]

batsheva,
I'm sorry about your crash! There seem to be some crazy drivers out lately according to everyone's posts!(i almost got taken out today by a semi, decided to go past me and drifted right at the same time, almost forced me off the road).

Do you race at all? I am down in Ft.Lauderdale, just wondering if you do any of the crits in orlando/lake mary or ever come down south!

[Jiffer]

Okay, now that Fredwina pointed out the error of my "July 18th Rides" post, I'll repost my July 17th ride, since it won't be July 18th until tomorrow and who knows what ride I'll do then! (Thanks Fredwina! I almost looked up the date to make sure I was right ... Shoulda.)

Hubby and I took the tandem up to Neely's Corner and back. 17.5 miles. 825 feet of climbing. We did our fastest time together yet ... 17.5 average pace. We both felt good and strong. I remember doing it a few weeks ago and I was really pushing it more than I ever had on the tandem, but didn't feel as good as this time, nor did we go as fast, though it was our fastest at that time.

A great ride. The weather was nice. It was a good reminder of why I like to ride, since my last solo ride was so difficult (HOT! ) and our last tandem ride wasn't the best experience either (60 miles to the beach). Today's great rides are the one's that keep me going!

[Jiffer]

definitely overheated today!

I so know the feeling. My 31.5 miler was like that last week. I think it got up to 100 that day. I was toasted on the way back, but I pushed through and did what I set out to do ... at a much lower speed than anticipated, but I did it. It was heavenly walking into the air conditioned house. I just plopped down on the family room floor for lack of energy to do ANYTHING for a while. My dogs just stared at me looking very confused. Eventually I got up, through water in my face, turned the ceiling fan on high and laid back on the floor for a while.

Here's to getting up when it's still cool out to go for a ride! (Getting up early is not one of my gifts!)

[RolliePollie]

I rode to work today for the first time (thread in Commuting if you're interested in details). I'm pretty proud of myself. It's not exactly an easy ride and everything worked out great. Not sure if this will become a regular part of my commuting schedule, but at least I know I can do it!