October 28 rides

[elk]

I think today was my longest ride yet...16 miles along the east Esplanade, a trip to the market for a snack and out the springwater corridor and back. GORGEOUS day along the river! (Yesterday I rode 5 miles on the other side of the river)..

I was with DH and 2 others....one was riding a Bridgestone he built and the other had a De Nucci...which she got used, built by the guy who builds Vanilla bikes...and he did the Pyrennes on it....it was GORGEOUS!!!! a grey/silvery blue...lugged steel, light, fast and sweet!!

I was a wee bit green, but me and my little draft horse did great. It was a great fun day.

My quads are a little sore and my bum is too...the good thing about my bum hurting is that that means I was on the seat right!!

[Tri Girl]

Great job on all the rides, ladies!

A few of us met early for some mtn biking. I forgot that the first month of cold weather kills my asthma, and I was "attacking" within about 10 min. of the ride. Had to drop off the back and ride REALLY slow to keep my HR down so I could breathe. Enjoyed the nice crisp morning, tho. Had a great time. Boy- I need to get my mtn bike courage back- I'm always such a weenie at the first of the off-season.

[Susan126]

Today was just as nice, if not a tad bit nicer than yesterday! Honestly I do not remember the last weekend where both Saturday and Sunday were both gorgeous! Such being said, Joe and I jumped at this opportunity and rode both yesterday and today. Yesterday we enjoyed a fun mountain bike ride and today a splendid road ride. This morning it was cold, sunny yes but very cold too, 31 degrees F when we woke up at 8:00 AM. So we waited until the sun had a chance to do it's thing and it sure didn't let us down. Around 11 AM it was in the mid 50s. Perfect! We drove to our favorite starting spot for a nice 20 mile ride. I think I over dressed a bit because I was sweating 10 minutes into the ride.

The day was absolutely picture perfect. We rode through the back roads of Enumclaw's farm country. I brought along my camea but Joe did not want to stop. He had a tempo going and I just pulled in behind him and it was like nirvana, a place or state of freedom from the world. And the trees, my goodness the trees! They were decked out in all of their gorgeous fall foliage. Mount Rainier was strutting it's presence too. It was out and white as a white snow cone. There was no traffic, no headwind, just a nice steady ride with beautiful scenery for a backdrop. I did not want it to end. How often (especially here in the pacific northwest in the fall/winter) do you get two back to back gorgeous days on a weekend?!

What a weekend! Glad I got to ride on both days!

[KnottedYet]

Went for a ride with SGTiger, Eden, and Mr. Eden. Kenmore to Recycled Cycles, then to 20/20 Cycles (which was closed) on First Hill in downtown Seattle.

Eden showed us a great route that I can take to ride to/from work.

When we got back to Kenmore SGTiger and I had dinner up in Third Place Books.

Beautiful day for a ride, and great folks to ride with!

[sgtiger]

Beautiful day for a ride, and great folks to ride with!

Most definitely! We'll have to do that again sometime soon.

[froglegs]

My husband and I rode our MTB's on the road to Point Sal beach (west of Santa Maria, CA). About 10 years ago a bunch of bad rainstorms washed out the road and the county closed it and never fixed it. Part of it is on the Air Force base property though, and I guess post-9/11 they closed it. So we climbed a painfully steep 2.5 mile hill and then didn't get to go down the other side to the beach.... oh well.

If it wasn't so hazy, it would have been a nice view from the top of the hill.

[DirtDiva]

Thirty-something kilometres of beech forest singletrack goodness, AKA the Wharfedale Track.

[elk]

Nice foto, froglegs! I don't mind the haze...gives it a sense of great distance...