Nov. 3 rides

[Kalidurga]

Janice, that Iwo Jima pic with your bike is great! It was definitely a fun ride

[madscot13]

good to hear that the ride was a success. as for myself, I slept in!

[BikeDutchess]

Got up early and rode 26 miles towards my son's soccer state cup championship game. I left the house @ 8 am and it was soooo cold for the first hour or so (low 30's). I have to get warmer gloves or mittens or something! But it was a gorgeous fall day and a wonderful ride. DH and son picked me up on their way to the game. I would have ridden all the way but wasn't sure about the route to the game field.

P.S. the game was a nailbiter - tied after regulation, tied after OT, it came down to PK's and darn it, they lost. But they played so well, it was a pleasure to watch the game.

[Fredwina]

I was playing avoid the Santa Anas, too It seemed like everywhere you turned there was headwinds.
Had to laugh, I was riding with friend, and he wanted to do a different route than the usual club ride. I thought he told to do backwards than what he usually does, I started climbing but noticed he wasn't there. I got to a corner , he showed up at the same time.
I turned around .
Did about 62 miles
Pic! from the top of Euclid avenue in Upland:

It look like this for 12 miles and 1000 feet(downhill)

[7rider]

Great pix, Janice!
The 2nd Tour de DC with Team DC/TE was a sunny, breezy affair.
To get downtown in time from my home, I had to leave the house at 7 a.m. - before the sun was up (well, I could've left a bit later!) - and hook up with Janice. Including a side trip to the LBS afterwards to replace a lost bolt on my bikes' rack, I ended up with 56 miles for the day!

[RoadRaven]

Second race of the spring series... I headed out and after 1.5kms, a bug hit me on my sunglasses and bounced onto my shoulder... it must have been so p-offed with me it stung me. I stopped, assuming it was a bee and made sure it wasn't in my jersey, then hooked onto the tail end of my grade and set off again. A 1km climb and my shoulder felt worse and worse so I turned around and was a 'dnf'. Closer inspection shows I have three stings in my shoulder so it must have been a wasp.

Everyone is telling me I did the right thing as when your heart rate is elevated and your blood is pumping hard, a sting which also elevates your heart rate as well as poison being pumped through your system rapidly can make you quite sick qyuite fast.

So just a total of 16.7km for me on Saturday...

[jobob]

I've been in the riding doldrums the last month or two, so I let myself slack off, and gained over 5 pounds in the process ! gah.

So after the abject sluggitude of October I decided I'd start up again in November.

Today LeeBob and I went on a short ride from our home, along the bike path, up Mission Blvd to Mission Coffee (where we split an oh-so-excellent turkey/cranberry/walnut sandwich), and rode back. A whopping 25 miles.

I was starting to get tired in the ever-present headwind on the way back home. Kind of frustrating that only a couple of months ago I was able to barrel into that headwind without much trouble, today I was pretty sluggish. Oh well, I'll be back in shape, eventually.

[salsabike]

"Abject sluggitude" is a totally wonderful phrase, Jobob. Gee, I hadn't realized someone had invented an actual diagnostic category for my condition on certain days.

And it sounds like a fine ride for getting back into it.