Saturday July 19 Rides

[sundial]

I'm off the bike this week. Will someone ride extra miles for me? Please?

[Aggie_Ama]

Sundial- I will be riding my butt off to try to make it calloused for New Mexico next week. I haven't had nearly enough time in the saddle to enjoy a 85+ mile ride. I will log some miles for ya. Hope you are not ill!

[Crankin]

I did a 5.5 mile hike with Denise G. It would have been OK to ride at 6 AM, but it is brutal out there today and neither of us wanted to get up that early. We decided a hike in the shady woods would be better. Plus, we have not seen each other since November, so hiking gave us more opportunity to chat. I was soaked with sweat from hiking.
Whenever it's extremely hot and humid, I get headaches, which makes me feel like cr@p. My ride yesterday was pathetic, dead legs. I'm finally starting to feel a bit better, and hoping to get out early tomorrow, before the T storms take over.

[makbike]

I joined the club this morning for a lovely 47 mile ride from Louisville to Simpsonville. We traveled some beautiful, scenic roads but boy did we see a lot of hills on our journey today. I pushed myself today (as much as my tired legs would allow me to) and felt I had a decent ride (15.9 mph avg speed). Our typically summer weather pattern has set in so when we started at 8:30 it was already in the mid-70's and climbing fast! I love this weather! It was a good day on the bike.

[sundial]

Sundial- I will be riding my butt off to try to make it calloused for New Mexico next week. I will log some miles for ya. Hope you are not ill!

Thanks! And good luck on your ride. I know how the Texas heat will sap you and I hope you do ok. I'm not riding because I've got 2 big deadlines......and life.

[dingster1]

I did 40 miles on the WMRT. Nice spot

[RolliePollie]

I'm off the bike this week. Will someone ride extra miles for me? Please?

I will donate 10 miles to your cause. I would give you more, but I rode 40 and I want to keep 30 for myself. Selfish of me? Yes! But donating 25% of my miles to you isn't so bad, right?

I did my traditional Saturday ride down to Placerville and back. What a fun ride! There is one descent that I'm just addicted to. I was almost tempted to do that part of the ride twice today just so I could fly down the curvy hills again. It really feels like a roller coaster...I love it! Then I rolled into my LBS to talk about a new chain before heading back up the hill. 3 hours and approximately 40 miles later, I made it home. There is a Safeway close to my house and they just put in a Starbucks (I find this so strange...I live in a very rural area and it isn't even an incorporated town, but we have a Starbucks?!?!) so I walked over and treated myself to a caramel Frappucino complete with whipped cream. Yummmmm!

[sundial]

I will donate 10 miles to your cause. I would give you more, but I rode 40 and I want to keep 30 for myself. Selfish of me? Yes! But donating 25% of my miles to you isn't so bad, right?

LOL! As long as I get credit for the calories that were burned.

[denda]

I did 24 miles this morning. 70 degrees, very little wind, I averaged 16 mph. Which is very good for me. I am not very fast. It was a good ride. Hopefully my husband and I are going to ride this evening.

[salsabike]

Did the 60-mile ride, on our tandem, around Lake Washington with a bunch of folks, including Mimitabby's spouse Raleighdon! It is the PERFECT day here in the PNW--sunny and 70. Great ride, lots of fun, felt strong.

[luv'nAustin]

This morning I rode in an MS fund raising ride through the beautiful rolling (yeah, right) countryside of the Little River region of northern Durham and Orange counties in North Carolina.

We had a choice of 30, 45, or 60 mile routes. Since I didn't sleep well last night I chose the 45 mile route and it turned out to be 46.59 miles with 3061 feet of climbing. Our average speed was 17.3 mph. It was great fun and I was lucky to have two other strong riders with me...they were helpful when the hills were long and I needed a wheel to draft behind.

Any one else here do this ride today?

[boy in a kilt]

I don't know how far I rode. My bike computer is partially operational so I get cadence only, and I think I like it.

For the locals, I rode 527 down to Lake City Way to see what Mid Mountain had done to the road recently. Thought about riding the BG into Seattle, but I realized that I HATE the BG. So, I hung a left at Ballinger Way, and headed that way. Considered stopping by Knot's place to see what sort of folly I could talk her into, but in an ADD moment, I saw one of the Interurban Trail signs. I'd never ridden the Interurban south of Lynnwood, so I kept going until I found it. Which means I rode most of the way around Lake Ballinger, gave up for a while and headed north into Montlake Terrace, regained my resolve and headed back across I-5, rode for a little while, gave up again, then stumbled across it in spite of myself. At this point, I decided to give it a whirl.

I was underwhelmed, so I hopped off at Alderwood mall and went home.

Oh, and the whole time, I was switching back and forth between "Crucify" and "City of Compton" in my head. Tori Amos and Ice Cube. What a match.

[Susan126]

Joe and I started our ride today at noon. We had planned on an early morning ride but when we woke up it was cloudy and chilly outside. A marine layer had come on shore during the night and cooled things off. The morning temperature at our house this morning was 51 degrees! So Joe and I decided to wait until noon, hoping the sun would burn through and warm things up, before starting our ride.

Noon arrived and the sun was not doing it's job! So not wanting to waste the day we left for our ride. It was an out and back. Gradual up hill to start then a big 2 mile climb, about a 6 percent grade, then leveling off at the top of the climb we rode around the town of Buckley and then went down the hill we had climbed about 30 minutes earlier.

Oh I almost forgot, on our way back this guy on a bike passed us and Joe decided he just couldn't allow this. So the last 4 miles of our ride Joe, me, and this guy were in a sort of three person Tour de France. We were the sprinters racing towards the finish. Happy to say Joe and I won! We passed this guy and left him in our dust. We put a lot of distance between us too. Joe was happy. He gets like this occasionally and it actually was fun. I guess Joe was feeling pretty good on our ride today. I felt pretty good too. It was a good ride. Oh and the sun finally did come out. About 1/3 of the way through our ride it started to burn those marine cloud layers away. We finished with full sunshine!



Oh I almost forgot, we got 29 miles this afternoon.

[Blueberry]

This morning I rode in an MS fund raising ride through the beautiful rolling (yeah, right) countryside of the Little River region of northern Durham and Orange counties in North Carolina.

We had a choice of 30, 45, or 60 mile routes. Since I didn't sleep well last night I chose the 45 mile route and it turned out to be 46.59 miles with 3061 feet of climbing. Our average speed was 17.3 mph. It was great fun and I was lucky to have two other strong riders with me...they were helpful when the hills were long and I needed a wheel to draft behind.

Any one else here do this ride today?

We felt like crud this AM, so we wimped out. I'm kinda glad - I wouldn't have been up for that kind of climbing (it's more than the elevation profile showed). It usually is an awesome ride, though. Great support, and a great cause (plus I LOVE the burritos). Had been meaning to PM you - have much more free time to ride now (but you're WAY faster than me).

CA