JULY 8th TUESDAY RIDES

[tulip]

Between work deadlines and trying to buy a house (inspection was today), there's no time for riding these days! Deadline is tomorrow, so after that...until the next deadline next week!

(but the new house is near awesome road riding routes--whoo hoo!)

[Tuckervill]

Geez Sundial! Your day was like a Mary Chapin Carpenter song! Go over the border and play the lotto!

My rides are usually so unremarkable that I don't have anything to say about them. But today, I decided to just go for about an hour, no matter how far I went (turned out to be about 11 miles). As I was coming through the downtown area (a very pleasant end to my route), I heard maybe a cyclist coming up behind me. He was still very far away when I looked back. (I stopped at the first stop sign on Broadway, after coming down the hill by the park and hitting the speed limit.)

So I'm between the two stop signs on the main drag there, and I look back and see him and I think it's someone I know. He's screaming up and when he finally gets there I said, "Oh, i thought you were someone else," and he said, "Hi, how ya doing..." as we were passing.

He's riding a fixie or single speed, with bullhorn handlebars, out of the saddle and he's got a messenger bag over his shoulder and he's just screaming by and then I realize that he had to have already blown through the first stop sign. (To his credit he is wearing a helmet.) As I approached the second stop sign, he blew through that one, too. So I had to call out, "You're giving me a bad name by blowing that stop sign!" He never slowed down or looked back.

Harumph. He's obviously not from 'round here. Probably doing something at the private Christian university for the summer. Fancies himself a NEW YORK CITY messenger or something?? Poseur. Can't wait to see him again.

Karen

[Tuckervill]

Don't you hate when you're editing and you're really not? Sorry for the duplicate, in case anyone noticed.

[SouthernBelle]

At least I'm not the only one to have trouble with the heat and humidity today. It was a very short after work ride. I'm waiting for motion-based to tell me what the temps and humidity were, but it was in the 90s and humid.

I stopped 3 times to lay down in the shade as I thought I was going to get sick. I finally pulled into a friend's house, walked right in to the frig, got a Gatorade, and sat in the kitchen floor and drank it. She was in the bathtub. Her BF came in and found me sitting there and got me another Gatorade. I drank that one too.

I just haven't been riding enough, plus it hasn't been hot enough, for me to be acclimated.

[makbike]

I joined the club for a 47 mile adventure this morning. A nice summer shower moved in just prior to the start of the ride and we were treated to a double rainbow. I took this as a good sign as I did the butterfly who rested on my cheek for a brief moment. However, it was apparent within the first few miles that it was going to prove to be a difficult day. My legs were dead and heavy. Climbing was a real challenge and I could never find my rhythm. I guess my back to back centuries took a lot out of me and today I paid for them. I simply did not feel good on my bike today - guess it happens to everyone at some point. I'm taking tomorrow off - the bikes will not come out of the garage. I'm hosting a ride on Thursday so I must ride. However, because I must swept the route I can ride at a leisurely pace. I'm treating myself to a massage Thursday evening and hopefully between the day of rest tomorrow and therapeutic benefits of the massage my legs will bounce back for RaIN on Saturday. As I said yesterday, Legs please don't fail me now!

[OakLeaf]

I'm waiting for motion-based to tell me what the temps and humidity were

You can go to the National Weather Service and get the three-day weather history. Enter your zip code or city, state, then scroll down to "Current Conditions" in the right hand center of the page, and click three-day history. That'll give you hourly conditions at the observation station. Humidity isn't included, but dewpoint is, and you can either use that or calculate the relative humidity from the dewpoint and temperature. They also list wind velocity, gusts and direction, precipitation and sky cover.

When you're 20 miles from the nearest observation station, it's only a rough estimate, but close enough for jazz

I'm not really acclimated either - the temps have been way too variable here. Hot for a few days, then chilly for another few.

[LBTC]

Wow! What adventures you've had today!!

After work we did the time trial. It's been awhile, but I've been practicing riding in my big ring more, and I stayed in it the whole way (13km) and had a new PB at 26:51. Which I am considering to be amazing since DH was about a minute slower than his PB because of the wicked wind! I averaged 170bpm, though, so I'm ready for bed now. haha

Hugs and butterflies,
~T~

[jesvetmed]

Got in about 18 miles, my usual road loop from my house. Moderately hilly. Man I'm tired today! 51 hours of work in three nights, and close to no sleep. I need some time to rest, but BACK TOMORROW NIGHT! Yike.

Legs were tired... but it was a gorgeous night!

Unlike the rest of you, I waited out the heat, and didn't leave till almost 7pm tonight. That was a good plan. It was JUST right!

You guys be careful in the heat!

Great job out there LBTC!

[sundial]

Geez Sundial! Your day was like a Mary Chapin Carpenter song! Go over the border and play the lotto!

LOL! I'm tellin' ya, I was singing the blues.

I guess my back to back centuries took a lot out of me and today I paid for them.

Good grief, woman! Time to cool those heels.

51 hours of work in three nights, and close to no sleep.

Are you related to Makbike?