May 26 (Memorial Day) rides

[divingbiker]

Another perfect day in the DC area. I did an easy ride on the bike path over to College Park, 29 miles total.

[HillSlugger]

Congrats Kathi!

No ride today, but I did a 4 mile run/race. Beautiful weather.

[makbike]

Woke early to light rain showers and the question quickly became "should I attempt today's century?" I convinced myself that I would make the drive to southern Indiana for the the century. I decided the worst thing that could happen would be the ride would be cancelled or the ride would be shorten given weather. Only 5 club members decided to attempt today's century but each is a very strong rider and four of us had completed yesterday's century (a hilly one at that). It was decided we would ride to the first store stop and decided what to do at that point so off we went. The route was nice a flat and the pace was quick. We arrived at the store stop and we debated what to do. Locals told us the heavy rain/wind/lightning would not arrive until late in the day, the radar screen on a cell phone showed a massive storm front moving in our direction. We decided to ride out another 10 miles and make a decision there and off we went. The winds had picked up and the skies were growing dark so ten miles out we made the call - turn around and head back to our cars and so we started the back tracking. A light rain started with about ten miles to go but the wind was blowing strong. I was glad the decision had been made to turn back for I was not looking forward to yet another century where we had to fight the wind and ride in the rain. We arrived safely back at our cars a tad bit wet but all happy with the decision. In the end we logged 62.6 miles - so our 100 mile century became a metric century - not bad. Time to shower and crawl on the couch for I'm really tired.

[7rider]

Congrats on hitting 1,000. I hit that mark yesterday!
Today, DH and I went mountainbiking.
After 2 days of hard road riding (plus 3 commutes prior to that), my legs felt like lead. DH road his flatbar road bike with cyclocross tires. The park was packed. There were 2 big groups from MORE (the regional mtb advocacy group) and lots of individual parties. We crossed paths frequently with the folks from MORE. I recognized one of the riders - who's now riding a tiny custom ti singlespeed. Sweet. DH saw a former co-worker and the guy who bought his old road bike there. It was like a big reunion, and consequently we spent more time at the cross-trails gabbing and catching up than riding! It was a verrry casual ride....and a whole lot of fun.

[indigoiis]

I was supposed to do a long ride to prep for a century next Sunday. But we have one of our animals due to give birth so we decided to do short rides out and back and check on our girl. So we did a quick 11 mile "chase the rabbit" ride where my husband went ahead and my job was to "catch" him. Of course he is way faster than me so it was a good workout.

we got back... no baby.

So he said, you want to take the mountain bikes out? So we went up the road to a dirt trail and went down a couple miles. At the bottom he goes, "you want to climb back up?" and I'm like, heck yeah! So we went back up. At the top, he said, "do you want to keep going?" I was thinking, if we go 15 miles and get back and she has a dystocia or some other terrible thing I will kick myself... but yeah let's go. So we went up the pike and back and it was wicked fun. A little playing around in the woods on the trails... I am not as experienced as he is but I sure had fun. Sand was a little twitchy though! I'm still screeching every time I come near to falling. I fell twice. Not too hard, and not enough to bleed. So it was great fun.

Got back... no baby. ARRRRRGH!

[BikeDutchess]

Woke up to a rainy day and had lots to do around the house so decided to skip the club ride today. As I haven't ridden in a few days I was getting a little cranky. Around one it looked like a little break in the clouds so DH suggested taking a short ride to get a cup of coffee somewhere. As we started out we noticed very dark clouds on the right and on the left with what we hoped would be a dry corridor in between. We made it to the coffee shop but while enjoying our hot brew it started raining again. Good thing I had my nice rain jacket. We had a lot of fun riding through the rain (living in the desert we are spoiled and don't get much rainy riding weather) and were completely drenched by the time we rode the 3 miles home. But it was exhilarating and certainly got rid of the crankiness!

[jesvetmed]

Slept in WAY late which was nice.
Had a Brick on the schedule today so rode a beautiful but semi hilly 23 miles in 1 hour 23 minutes, and then hit the trail for a 30 minute run. It seemed quite far to me! I cannot stop sweating!
Happy Memorial Day to all... and congrats on the 1000 and the century you guys!