Aug 11 rides

[Duck on Wheels]

Go Duck Go!

August 10th didn't ride ..... but swam after work. Not sure how far, lost track of the laps. Swimming's enjoyable yet dull. How do people keep track of the laps?

I keep track by swimming different strokes -- 1 crawl to warm up, then 2 breast stroke, then sidestroke, overarm side, inverted side, overarm inverted side, backstroke, back crawl, inverted breaststroke -- that's 10 lengths. Then start over again for another 10 and so on.

[SouthernBelle]

I had planned to set out at 5:30 this morning, but it being Saturday morning I was lazy so it was more like 6:40. I planned on trying to get some serious mileage if the heat would let me. But I built in a couple of bailout points in my planned route.

Although It was not a new route, I changed a section to some never ridden roads which included one particularly wicked hill. Sometimes when you keep going up and up it seems like the Twilight Zone.

Although the temp wasn't too bad at first, it started climbing and I started drinking, which is good. But as I approached a bailout point, I realized that if I turned right and went long, there is no place for many miles to refill my bottles, which were about empty. So I went left. Bought some Gatorade at the Norene General Store and about 15 more miles to home. Probably a good choice as I really wasn't sweating a lot.

Total: 48.06 miles.

[makbike]

I joined the club this morning for a 60 mile route (actually was 57 but who is counting?). This route took in many of the roads traveled on the Old Kentucky Home Tour but in a reverse manner. The first 30 miles or so were actually the tail end of the Sunday portion of the tour. As we traveled these roads I noticed I was not having to work very hard for most of it was downhill - only proving my statement that the Sunday portion of the tour is much harder than the Saturday routes. Oh well, I enjoyed the free ride.

The second portion of the ride was part of Saturday's route and it was hilly for no matter which way you travel on Routt Road you have hills to climb! The journey up Seatonville Road was as always long and hard - what a miserable climb but I made it to the top and continued on my merry way.

The temperatures today are down, only in the low 90's as we rode. We traveled a lot of beautiful roads and as always I enjoyed all the animals I spied along the way.

It was a good ride, lots of good company, a Little Debbie Swiss Roll snack at the store stop and great weather. One really can't ask for much more in a day.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I rode on my own today 32 miles over lovely rolling hills and countryside.

This was my 3rd ride testing my new shorter reach handlebars, and the longest one so far.
So far I am very pleased.
The totally unexpected bonus of these bars showed up dramatically today in that my usual quite painful left elbow did not hurt!
Usually for the past 8 months, I get elbow soreness after 10 miles and it gets steadily worse with each 10 miles thereafter, til it hurts- a LOT -just to bend it. It's the only real pain I experience in my biking, and it happens on EVERY ride over 10 miles.
But today for the first time in many months, I felt some mild sore twinges after a few miles, then they went away, then came back a tiny bit, then just went away, kept doing this...by the end of my 32 miles my elbow wasn't really hurting much at all!
This huge sudden change can't be anything but the new bars. YAY!!!!!!!

[RolliePollie]

It is quite smoky here this morning (not sure where this fire is...I think the whole state of CA is going to burn up this year) so I didn't push it. 21.2 miles and I did my easier route to avoid a few long hill climbs. My eyes were watering so bad that I had tears dripping off my chin for much of the ride. Other than that, the smoke didn't seem to bother me much.

[Crankin]

It was really nice out, but we have to leave in about 10 min. to see an exhibit at the MFA and I was lazy this morning. We did aabout the most flattish loop you can do from my house, 16.44 miles. My husband decided to do intervals and was really far ahead of me. Don't ever eat a chicken salad wrap before riding. What was I thinking? Well, my aveage was 16.4 before I climbed the hill to my house, and 15.8 at the end. But I did not feel good!
Off to the city.

[solobiker]

Well, this morning a friend and I headed out for some hill climbing. We started out at the base of one of the local favorites which is a 5 mile climb with about 1700 of elevation. After that we continued on for more hill training for about another 10 miles or so. It was a beautiful ride and we explored some areas that we had not ridden in yet. It was a short ride day, about 13 miles of hill climb and of course 13 miles down . We were going to continue on but decided against it as it was starting to get hot, we are supposed to be near 99 today Hope everyone is well.