July 21 Rides

[salsabike]

Ha! We did the 48-mile Mercer Island loop (north end of Lake Washington), which has several notable hills. Not bad for a couple of people whose lives haven't permitted much riding in the last few months. Now we know we can do Tour De Peaks metric route next weekend! http://www.tourdepeaks.com/ Crazy weather day here--grey, breezy, not cold, not warm...good riding weather for us.

[emily_in_nc]

DH and I had a great 32-mile ride today. Amazingly, we enjoyed low humidity and highs only in the upper 70s since a cold front came through yesterday that made it absolutely spectacular for riding! We did all our errands, riding to the post office, farmer's market, a local organic farm for some additional produce, and even to Wal-Mart for ibuprofen! It was quite an adventure, and I was feeling strong and great today. I did well on hills after last weekend's much hillier ride in Ohio. Our average speed was only 13.2, but that's about the best we ever do on "utility" rides on our Bike Fridays because of the traffic in places, riding in parking lots, and our gravel road plus a long unpaved road to the farm we went to. And coming back we were loaded down lots of veggies on board and going into a headwind!

Emily

P.S. CA - I thought that event sounded fun, but we just can't seem to get going that early to make it to an out of town ride in time. We didn't even leave the house 'til 9:30 this morning! Congrats on your mileage! Today's 32 was our longest all year.

[Aggie_Ama]

Weather was very cool today in Texas, I still can't believe I started a ride at 3:00 in July! It really wasn't a great ride for me, I felt very sore and was a bit cranky from my allergy medicine keeping me up last night. I guess you have those days though. This ride is rolling hills but usually doesn't leave me sore, that is not the case tonight.

49.68 miles
14.8 mph average

[Fredwina]

i did 131, Was doing a brevet and realized that I would be getting back after dark and I didn't have headlights. although it looks like I could have done it. more to come

[mimitabby]

Fredwina, you are amazing.

We did 20 miles, we were afraid we'd be caught in the rain, so we stayed close to home. somehow we also managed to get 1700 feet of climbing in there too. (did I say we lived on a hill?)

[teigyr]

We did 20 miles, we were afraid we'd be caught in the rain, so we stayed close to home. somehow we also managed to get 1700 feet of climbing in there too. (did I say we lived on a hill?)

1700?!! and to think I was whining when I did 2200' in 44 miles.

DH did his first 50 miles today I had to work so I am living life vicariously.

[bikerchick68]

I did 35 miles today... on my new saddle So far so good... the ride was a slower than normal pace as we had 2 riders with us in clipless pedals for the first time... they did great! For me, the slower pace was good recovery anyway from last weekend... I felt pretty darned good tho so I was happy!

Sounds like everyone had decent rides!

Fredwina... how far was the brevet to be? Last week when I did STP, I hit a bump and my headlight flew off my bike into my spokes Kept it upright and the pack avoided it. Stopped and picked it up... 20 miles later or so, another bump and off went the headlight... at that point I decided I'd be buying a new one... that straps on Ordered a cateye yesterday