Nov 10 Rides

[Fredwina]

I rode as a course Marshall on the half metric route, I also got early and got in some extra mile (half to get my Saturday metric in!)
Very nice, I surprised my self with my pace Along the way, I recruited some else for my fleche team (she does Ultraman tris) ,so i I figured it would be up her alley.
Hung around the club booth for a bit before heading home. We going to do a Team E thing, but It sounds like a lot of folks got called away at the last minute. C'est La vie!

[sandra]

Another crash for me today. Crash while WALKING! Hubby and I had this bright idea that we would do something different, go to the outside edge of our neighborhood, slip around a fence and down a little hill and come out in a big ole church parking lot and go from there.

The little hill was a bigger than it looked. And it had some vines and briars growing on the ground. My foot got hung underneath a briar and I stopped except the bike didn't and pulled me down with it. I took a small roll down the hill before I stopped. More wounds and bruises.

We rode anyway and I have no idea how far. We didn't have a bike computer with us and it was a leisurely ride.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

DH and I did a pretty tiring ride today. It was only 32 miles, but it took us FOUR HOURS.
It was 30 degrees F when we headed out, and windy and cold. We took a very hilly route around the area through various towns. Saw some dustings of snow on the ground here and there in the woods.
Wound up doing 1600 feet of climbing which (for me) was more than usual in 32 miles. Some of those hills seemed to take forever in low gear, and the downhills were a bit too cold and windy for my liking.
Luckily I wore just enough layering to keep warm enough. My fingers came close to being too cold, but then another uphill and they were warm again.

When we got home it was about 40 degrees, my legs were real tired and my bones were chilled through. But I did feel good about doing this ride today which was a "vertical challenge" for me. I laugh when some of you ladies complain about how "slow" you are at 12 or 15mph. Today we only managed 8.2mph. (ok that is lower than my usual 9.5 or 10).
I took a long hot shower and ate split pea soup and hot cocoa. I've got wool on for sleeping tonight- going to sleep well!

[sandra]

Lisa, that actually sounds good to me. We were in the mid 70's with shorts and short sleeves and HOT. I'd like to try a little of that cool.

[solobiker]

Didn't ride today. Opted for a nice long walk in the neighborhood. It was a beautiful day, I was warm enough to wear shorts and a long sleave T-shirt.

[ibcycling]

The planned club ride yesterday was only 20 miles so I decided to ride my bike to the meeting place instead of drive (adds 12 miles one way). The wind kicked up before I left in the morning and I considered not going but I really wanted to ride. After fighting the wind and making it to town the brave souls who showed up changed the route so we wouldn't have to fight the wind quite so hard. I ended up with 40.5 miles and opted to have dh come get me instead of riding home. I really hate wind.

Lora

[emily_in_nc]

Lisa, that actually sounds good to me. We were in the mid 70's with shorts and short sleeves and HOT. I'd like to try a little of that cool.

Mid 70s is hot???? Ooh, that's just perfect cycling weather to me! Actually, 80s are even better (I do start to melt at 90, though!) It was in the 40s/50s both days of the weekend here in NC. We hiked and did some pretty heavy yard work (moving lots of logs on our 11 acre wooded property), no riding. I didn't mind. I'm very much a cold-weather weenie!

Emily

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Anything between 25 and 90 degrees F is good biking weather.

[RoadRaven]

A good day to ride
Sunny, not much wind... beautiful

We didn't race today... instead we went for a 65km ride - my partner and two of my sons and me. We did a 25km tempo ride in the middle of it...

I loved my Saturday ride