11 miles, rolling hills. First ride this weekWork's been busy...don't like less daylight!
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Did 15.63 miles after DH got home from work, same loop that I had the can thrown at me on. Legs were pretty dead but still managed to average 15.9. Nothing particularly special about this ride but I am saddened at how quickly the days seem to be getting shorter.![]()
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Amanda
2011 Specialized Epic Comp 29er | Specialized Phenom | "Marie Laveau"
2007 Cannondale Synapse Carbon Road | Selle Italia Lady Gel Flow | "Miranda"
You don't have to be great to get started, but you do have to get started to be great. -Lee J. Colan
11 miles, rolling hills. First ride this weekWork's been busy...don't like less daylight!
If you don't grow where you're planted, you'll never BLOOM - Will Rogers
4.1 miles for my commute.
I went in a few minutes earlier than usual and found myself riding into the sun on the canal trail. No duckies in the canal today. It was cool enough that I kept my jacket on the whole time.
I left on time for a change to come home. I had a lot of my former students waving at me from their cars as they were on their way home from the middle school. It's always fun to see them and try to recognize and remember them.
V.
Last edited by Veronica; 09-13-2007 at 08:58 PM.
*Sigh* daily rides have disappeared into 16 hour workdays!
"The best rides are the ones where you bite off much more than you can chew, and live through it." ~ Doug Bradbury
DH left work early so we could go ride. We rode 26 miles stopping in the middle for lunch. Was a beautiful day! I felt amazingly good despite the tri last sunday and the impending tri next sunday. Maybe this cross-training works![]()
Ahhh..I finally managed to get 50km in on my morning ride. I often run out of time & end up doing only 46-47km.. Therefore i'm one happy chickie. That and i did the 50km in 2hrs :08..
Anywho, my ride home tonight should be exciting or might be exciting..The wind is supposed to pick up but who knows! I'll have to wait for the updated BOM forecast at 4:30.
Going to do a group ride tomorrow..first time in a lonnnng time that i've actually biked with anyone!!!
It'll be strange to have to bike around people!!!
C
As I was out riding yesterday I was thinking to myself that the daily ride thread has sort of become scattered ride days. I rode 42 miles with my riding partner, started out at 45degrees, but sunny. Might have been 55-60 degrees when we finished. There was a change of plans for the afternoon so my original route of 20 miles was increased to 42. It was a crisp, sunny, beautiful day for a ride. Not riding today, saving all my energy for our Highlander cycle tour tomorrow, 100miles.
Thanks for starting the thread today, Amanda! I always like reading about everyone's daily rides.
Yesterday I commuted to my new job (25 miles away) for the first time! Yippee!!!![]()
Ok- so I didn't commute the whole way (who has 2 hours in the dark to ride?). I did a hybrid commute. Drove my car to my LBS 9 miles away, then rode the rest of the way to work.
Morning ride in was peaceful and dark (for most of the way) and uneventful. The afternoon ride was a bit more nerve wrecking with all the traffic (and the "iffy" part of town I rode through was awake and alive with commotion).
If I do it again I'll need to find another route (which means another parking place because from the LBS there's only one way out of downtown).
Oh well- glad I tried it anyway!![]()
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Cervelo P2C (tri bike)
Bianchi Eros (commuter/touring road bike)
1983 Motobecane mixte (commuter/errand bike)
Cannondale F5 mountain bike
Humberto soaked through. I like riding, but not in a Tropical Storm.
Beth
Maybe we should do something like a weekday ride thread, then a weekend ride thread. So this week would have been 9/10-14 and this weekend would be 9/15-16 thread.
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I got stuck at work and missed my afternoon ride yesterday. Today is a planned rest day for our MS150 this weekend. Century tomorrow, 50 mile 'recovery ride' on Sunday. Can't wait!!
Just hoping that the remains of Humberto moves through today and tonight and that tomorrow dawns dry.![]()
My new non-farm blog: Finding Freedom
Amanda
2011 Specialized Epic Comp 29er | Specialized Phenom | "Marie Laveau"
2007 Cannondale Synapse Carbon Road | Selle Italia Lady Gel Flow | "Miranda"
You don't have to be great to get started, but you do have to get started to be great. -Lee J. Colan
Without my commute, there wouldn't be much weekday riding for me.![]()
I generally don't bother posting about my commute unless something interesting happens. And...sometimes it's best when it doesn't!![]()
2007 Seven ID8 - Bontrager InForm
2003 Klein Palomino - Terry Firefly (?)
2010 Seven Cafe Racer - Bontrager InForm
2008 Cervelo P2C - Adamo Prologue Saddle
My ride yesterday was stupendous! Great temps, no wind,low humidity..what a wonderful time. I rode a club ride on Wed. Very nice one too in spite of the wind, temps were great ~75...did 37 miles @ 13 mph but was itching to work harder.
Sooo, did something I've not done before...I asked another faster rider to ride on Thurs. We did 47 miles and did I work!! MPH number in my head before the ride was 15 and I had 15.1 with 2500' of climbing. Of course he had to wait for me but it really helped me push to have a 'rabbit'. Heart rate was 142 and my smile was ear to ear.