July 5th Rides.

[OakLeaf]

Club ride this morning. We started out with a very large group (not sure how many - somebody said 18) and kicked off by riding a mere 9 miles to a local church for breakfast. For $5, you get an all-you-can-eat buffet of scrambled eggs, two kinds of egg casserole, home fries, pancakes, two different kinds of sausage, bacon, biscuits, gravy, fruit cup, OJ and coffee. Silly me, I didn't realize this was church breakfast day and ate before the ride. Oh well.

After breakfast, nine of us (including a couple on a tandem) split off to do a longer route. Some of the slower riders took a short cut. We caught up to some of them, but others apparently took another alternate route (I don't know whether it was intentional or they weren't sure of the route). By mile 35 my group was seven riders including the tandem. At the next intersection, we waited a good long time for the tandem. They were fine, knew the route, just taking their time, and said it was okay to drop them.

At the final water stop, one rider split off because he'd ridden from home, and the remaining four of us debated which route to take back. We generally agreed that we didn't want to take a super-hilly route, but we figured that we'd just use repeated coin-flips to choose the way. The hilliest route got excluded on the first toss of the coin, so we were happy... until the strongest rider in our group, who'd gotten a little ahead, took the turnoff onto that road. The rest of us grumbled, but no one wanted to be the first wuss, so we followed along.

51.5 miles, 3270 feet of climbing.

[han-grrl]

Mtb ride today with hubby.

biked from home, on the road to the trail head in Gatineau Park
then up the 1 from the bottom, across to the 24, down to the 40, road to the 36, then the 50, then out to the road and home...

took 3 hours. felt great today.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

DH and I did a 32 mile ride this morning.
It rained on us about 1/2 way through and we got pretty wet. But happily my brakes still worked. I had to take off my glasses since I didn't have windshield wipers. Hosed the mucky mud spray off my bike when we got home. Hot shower sure felt good.

[sundial]

It was overcast and kind of cool when I headed out to ride. Did 28.5 miles and av. 19.2 on the way back.

[mimitabby]

ferocious dark clouds scudding by the whole time i was outside, and temps in the 60's except for the headwind all the way home, weather suited me fine. It rained on my bike for the short time i was on the bus; the other 25 miles were actually dry. I also managed to stop at my son's house for a meal! (both sons were there )

[SouthernBelle]

My ride was short today. My legs were feeling kinda crappy.

But then I was driving my my former landlady's house and took a chance and dropped in. She's in her late 80s and still keeps an immaculate house, despite fighting cancer. We had a lovely chat and she showed me pictures of her great grands.

The rest and visit made me feel much better so I had a good crank on the way home.