July 5th Rides.

[Crankin]

I did about 20 miles of local riding; we did a variation of one of our Great Brook Farm loops, by doing it in the reverse direction. We decided to make this a slow ride. When we got to Great Brook after some very slow climbing of Strawberry Hill we stopped and I ate my Luna Bar. There were a lot of families getting ready to mtb on the trails there, which I thought was weird, since it has rained so much and the trails are not in good shape. We took off and headed out when I realized that I had only ridden that road in that direction maybe once. Everything looks different going a different way! When we got to the rotary in Carlisle a guy passed us. We stayed a bit behind him and then passed him up a ways on Lowell Rd. I guess he didn't like being behind a girl because he came up behind me and stayed on my wheel for quite a bit. Then he went up and asked my husband if he could pull. Since we didn't care one bit, we had a nice time behind him at about 25 mph. Then we turned off toward home when my husband declared he was going to crawl up the hill. Since I was warmed up and feeling good from riding slowly in the beginning, I managed to do the climb at around 10 mph, and about 8 going up the driveway.
This was a nice ride, since it was only 68 degrees out.

[tulip]

Nice 34 miles in the warm rain in beautiful eastern Virginia. Back on my Luna after months of Bike Friday riding. Love my Luna.