Christmas Day rides

[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

[Fredwina]

I did 44 miles down to Baldwin park and back. would have down more, but I picked a sheet metal screw in my tire in Covina and wasn't sure how the tire would hold.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

DH and I snuck away from our family guests this morning for a 20 mile ride before I had to cook christmas dinner. It was grey and about 37 degrees F. Managed to stay warm enough until the very end of our 2 hour ride, when my fingers and toes started objecting. Fun to be out on the roads on Christmas Day!

[silver]

Beautiful day here in the Midwest! high 40's, sunny, light wind. but I couldn't sneak out until a bit late so only had time for 21 before the sun was creeping down. But it was fast (for me coming out of the neighborhood) 18.1 mph. I felt a little guilty 'cause Mr. didn't bring his bike home.