Christmas Day rides

[crazycanuck]

Ian wants to venture out for a bike ride but no freakin way!!! It's 11:30AM & the official temp is 34C..and it's going to get hotter.Tomorrow's supposed to be 40C..

MNZ...i'm homesick(for NZ) now..I know the area you're referring to I do miss Pohutukawa trees

Enjoy the rest of your day!

C

[RoadRaven]

Yup.
We went out this morning before lunch.
It's become a family "tradition"...

All seven of us (me, partner, our daughter and four sons) hop on our bikes and go for a short ride. Just 10kms up to the end of the tarseal and back - thats about the right distance for my daughter (who commutes on the flat) and my youngest son (who is still getting used to his newish bike and building endurance on hills)

LOL, CC, we went at 11:30am here and it was drizzling and mild - just above 20'
Lovely weather for a ride

[MillieNZ]

Ian wants to venture out for a bike ride but no freakin way!!! It's 11:30AM & the official temp is 34C..and it's going to get hotter.Tomorrow's supposed to be 40C..

MNZ...i'm homesick(for NZ) now..I know the area you're referring to I do miss Pohutukawa trees

Enjoy the rest of your day!

C

good grief..... that's hot ! i admire your ability to live in that sort of heat !

If it makes you feel any less homesick.... the Auckland drivers were just as crazy yesterday and that road is very narrow & windy from Maraetai to Clevedon

[Thorn]

It's 11:30AM & the official temp is 34C

Hey, that's what we had...oops, 34F, but for this time of year in this area of the globe, blissfully warm. Got out for an easy 20 miles just to enjoy the sunshine....how about I send some of the snow and ice your way?

[7rider]

It was mid-40's in Maryland (~7C) and sunny and bright.
DH and I headed into Rock Creek Park which must be a Bermuda-Triangle sort of thing for GPS units, because once we got into the park, my Garmin would turn off, turn on, turn off, turn on. The beeping was maddening. When we got out of the park, it stopped doing it.
So...not sure exactly how far we went. The route is around 40 miles, and given how much my legs hurt right now.....I believe we did all of that.
Gads...how quickly the summer fitness disappears.

[smilingcat]

bit windy here but managed to get out and go riding for paltry 10 miles. did two easy hill climb for a total of 450ft (15km and 137m of climb)

My rest day
smilingcat

[lph]

We've indulged in our usual Christmas Day tradition of doing as little as possible, after a loooong evening with big dinner+gifts+hoopla with the inlaws yesterday, and my family coming over to visit tomorrow.

But I needed to nail those final 21 km for my 7500 this year so I left my menfolk on the couch this morning and snuck out. Brilliant ride. Last ride in the woods was on the 23rd, and then there was a layer of potato-flour-snow just thick enough to clog up my tires and make the going very heavy. But today I had wings! It rained yesterday and removed all the soft stuff, then today it was just below freezing. The roads were smooth superfast frozen dirt, with the occasional hairy stretch of ice bulges. I was almost up to summer speed, great fun Woop!

[velogirl]

for the 9th year in a row, I've led a ride in San Francisco on Christmas morning. I blogged it here:

http://velogirl.blogspot.com/2007/12...s-tour-of.html

[Geonz]

Two short rides for a total of 26. Hoping to go long tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day and the three after that just to shoot for the big 10K... the weather has nicely moved the snow showers to the night time! Today was wonderful at 45 F (what's that - about 7 C?) with 10 mph. Tomorrow even less wind *and* I can maybe get my lighter bicycle from the LBS for a stretch